Nadas Favorite Story about Brac

Nada, Slavko's wife, is from Zadar, a good sized city in Dalmatia up the coast from Split.  She is still uncomfortable with life in our small village of Milna on the island of Brac.  Here is her favorite story about Brac:

“A family on Brac had a relative -  a grandmother, as it were – who had moved away some years ago and now lived in America in Chicago.   One day the grandmother died and, according to her will, she was cremated and her ashes sent home to Brac for burial.  Her instructions were sent to her family in a separate mailing.  Now, as sometimes happens, the letter with instructions got delayed in the mail but the urn with the ashes arrived just fine.  Her family unwrapped and opened the urn and stared at it with some perplexity.  “What is this, that Grandma has sent us from America?” they asked each other.  Finally they decided the ashes must be a seasoning, particularly fine judging by the bottle it came in.  They began using it on all their food.  About a month later, the letter with the instructions finally arrived.  “Oh no,” the family cried, “how can we bury Grandma when we have eaten her?”