In A Daze

Melanie still had no idea whose funeral she was attending. She looked around again, looking for a clue. Then, she saw it — her own last name on a program that was in the hands of someone a few seats away from her.
But if someone in her family had passed away, surely her family would have told her? The only logical explanation was that this was a funeral for one of her distant cousins or even for a family member she had never met. It couldn’t be for someone she knew, could it?