The McLellan family has been reunited after their car, feared stolen, was recovered along with their mother’s cremated remains.
A small beige box with Mary "Betsy" McLellan's ashes was sitting in the back seat of the car while daughter Sandy Harris met with her sister, the driver of the vehicle.
When they finished having dinner Thursday evening, the car was gone from the Stater Brothers store parking lot in La Miranda.
Early Saturday morning, the car’s owner drove to the store hoping to find her twin sister’s vehicle – her only possession which was supposed to take her home to Oregon, Harris said.
The foam green, 4-door car was sitting in a lot adjacent to the one where it was last seen.
"Oh God, we were happy," Harris said.
Their mother’s ashes and belongings that her sister planned to take with her to Oregon were found intact, she said.
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The family said they are not pursuing any legal action in favor of moving on from what Harris called one big headache.
"We don’t care, as long as everything is okay," she said. "We’re a forgiving family here, you know."
Harris' mother died in August of stomach cancer, less than a month after she was diagnosed. Mary McLellan was 75 years old.
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