Dog the Bounty Hunter is honoring his late wife's mother's wishes by having their ashes buried next to one another.
Dog, whose real name is Duane Chapman, 69, gave some of his late wife Beth Chapman's ashes to her sister, Melinda. This follows the death of Beth's mother, Bonnie Joan, who passed away late last year.
Cecily Chapman, daughter of Beth and adopted by Dog, shared the devastating news on Instagram, as well as pictures of the funeral service.
TMZ reports that Bonnie Joan had made this request, and Dog the Bounty Hunter had wanted to make it a reality.
While he did hold a memorial for Beth where he spread her ashes in Hawaii, he had been using ceremonial ashes at the time, and still had the real ones.
Reportedly, the two had a rather rocky relationship. But after learning news of Beth's cancer diagnosis, the mother and daughter began to mend their relationship and ended in a much better place before Beth's passing.
Beth was diagnosed with stage II throat cancer in 2017. Two months after revealing the news, she announced that she was in remission.
After undergoing surgery, it was revealed that Beth's cancer had spread into her lungs.
Beth passed away shortly thereafter at age 51, and the memorial in Hawaii was held at the end of June.
"When she had an attack I didn’t know anything to do but to say ‘in Jesus’ name’ and hold her, and when I said ‘in Jesus’ name’ she said, ‘Say it again, say it more,’" he recalled, as per US Magazine. "And then she told the girls and everybody, with her mouth — she came out of it a couple times — ‘I love you’ and ‘Are you guys all OK? Don’t worry,’ but she never accepted it."
While the ashes used in the memorial in Hawaii were ceremonial, Dog did spread some of Beth's ashes in places that were important to them.
Dog said to TMZ, "I understand now what rest in peace truly means. I'm hopeful Beth can now rest in peace."
