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45 years later, a long-lost infant's body was found
After decades of searching, Hastings learned her infant son was buried in a common donor grave, and she is raising money for a headstone.
- After 45 years, Dana Hastings, 64, located her son Abraham Joseph's burial site at Rochester's Oakwood Cemetery, discovering he was interred in a research donor plot rather than the expected infant section.
- Following the 1981 death of her son at the Mayo Clinic, then 19-year-old Hastings believed Abraham was buried in the 'Isle of the Innocence,' but she found no record of him when visiting two years later.
- Records indicate Abraham was placed in Section 13, a group burial site for medical research donors between 1917 and 1985; Hastings said she and her relative never provided permission for his body to be used for anatomical studies.
- Staff at the Mayo Clinic's Office of Decedent Affairs confirmed his location after Hastings moved back to Rochester this year, prompting her to state, 'Oh my God, I can't believe it!'
- To commemorate Abraham's life, Hastings is raising funds through a GoFundMe campaign titled 'A Stone for My Son's Resting Place' to secure a permanent headstone at the site.
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