An English woman is angry that a crematorium refused to handle her mother's remains on the grounds that the body was too large.

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Penelope Stapleton, who died of a heart attack, weighed 22 stone -- about 300 pounds. She wanted her funeral service to be held at the Earlham Crematorium in Norwich, where her son Mark was cremated when he died of a brain tumor four years ago.

"It's a disgrace," her daughter, Michelle Franklin, told The Sun. "I wanted her to be cremated where she wanted. They should have facilities for large people."

A spokesman for the Norwich crematorium said that Stapleton was "simply a practical impossibility" and that the nearest place that could handle someone her size is in Watford, about 100 miles away.