Video: Family bids farewell as hoax call nurse Jacintha Saldanha is buried in India Friends and family paid their respects to Jacintha Saldanha, 46, during a simple ceremony in Shirva, some 30 miles north of Mangalore on the south-west coast. Three days earlier she transferred a call from two Australian DJs, believing they were the Queen and Prince of Wales, to a colleague who described in detail the Duchess's condition during her hospital stay. Ms Saldanha's husband and children accompanied a casket carrying her body into Our Lady of Health Church at around 4pm local time, after journeying back to the family's home-town for the funeral. For her final resting place Mrs Saldhana had chosen a patch of earth as different as can be from London, where she worked, and Bristol, where she lived - the hamlet of Shirva in south west India, baking in the intense tropical heat and set amid lush coconut groves and banana trees.