The Nation - News from Aug. 9, 1989
A physician said that an 87-year-old woman who was presumed dead and taken from a Springfield, Ohio, nursing home to a funeral parlor for embalming had apparently suffered a heart attack, then revived. Carrie Stringfellow was reported in fair condition after coming within minutes of being embalmed by mortician Dennis Porter over the weekend. “Our conjecture is that she probably suffered a heart seizure and her heart probably stopped at the nursing home,” said Dr. Ernest Henson, of Mercy Medical Center in Springfield.
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