Nigerian seeks exhumation to prove suburban man was his father

Mr Alexander Joseph Vavrinek. Photo by Scott Stewart-Sun Times

A Nigerian man filed a lawsuit in federal court in Chicago seeking to have a deceased suburban man exhumed — saying he can’t obtain U.S. citizenship until he proves the man in the grave is his father.

Alexander J. Vavrinek, 67, claims Joseph A. Vavrinek of Midlothian became his dad while stationed in Nigeria as a U.S. soldier during World War II.

Joseph Vavrinek died in 1981. Alexander Vavrinek’s mother, Edna Khanji, of Nigeria, died in 1996.

Now, Alexander Vavrinek is suing Joseph Vavrinek’s daughter, Rose Ann Vavrinek, of Midlothian, because she has allegedly refused to authorize the exhumation.

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