A California family was horrified to find a stranger’s body on display at a memorial service for their loved one — and the ordeal was enough to cause a relative to suffer a heart attack in the chapel, kin said.

The family of Joey Espinosa, 44, who recently died of heart failure, was attending his memorial service at Forest Lawn Covina Hills funeral home when they discovered the mortuary had put the wrong body in the casket.

The body of Joey Espinosa, 44, was allegedly misplaced by a California funeral home ahead of his memorial service. Laura Levario

“They didn’t know where my nephew’s body was,” Espinosa’s aunt, Laura Levario, told CBS Los Angeles .

Funeral home staff ushered the family into a different room at the facility after the apparent mix-up, but the body on display there w

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