Dead Man Turns Out to be Alive

I found this article in the Danville Commercial news, published 9/20/1957

Dead Man Turns Out to Be Alive

Albuquerque, N.M. (P) The income tax people got this letter:
"Gentlemen:
You sent my refund check to My home. My mother sent it back to you, saying that I was dead. You wrote my mother and asked for a death certificate. Well. I am not dead. I am still alive and I want my refund."