LAKE STEVENS — Jake Graham lost his mom in 2010. Fifteen years later, a stranger in Lake Stevens found her.

What’s up with that?

When Anissa Tibbits rented a home in Lake Stevens, she expected the usual move-in remnants: maybe a paint can in the garage or rusty garden tools. Instead, she found a box of cremated ashes.

The Neptune Society label offered a name: Poppy Graham.

Anissa tried tracking down family. No luck. So, shortly after midnight on July 15, she turned to Facebook:

“This is going to be an odd post , but I’ve run out of options,” she wrote. “Somehow — I’m seriously not sure, please don’t ask — a box of human ashes was left in the garage by someone who used to live here. She’s in no way related to the previous tenants, so they didn’t want to take her. I’d like to return h

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