Man cremated against wishes after remains mislabeled A funeral home in Kelso, Wash. is being fined $12,500 and placed on probation for one year after a mix-up last October led to one man ending up in another’s casket, and another man being cremated against his wishes. The bodies of 72-year-old Jerry Moon and 97-year-old Robert…
A grieving Canadian family faced an extra dose of bad news when they arrived at the funeral home to attend the memorial for Marguerite Mercier-Pelletier. They found that the funeral home had placed the wrong body in her coffin, but the grim discovery came too late. Directors at the Oscar St-Ours funeral home in Shawinigan,…
The man who the Pentagon announced this week would lead a review to prevent more mishaps at the U.S. military’s main mortuary is stepping down from the job, in a surprise setback. Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona announced on Thursday a bid to run in the Democratic Senate primary in Arizona — plans that U.S….
(CBS/AP) JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – A western Pennsylvania family is suing a hospital and funeral home after the wrong man’s body was prepared for a viewing that had to be canceled after the family discovered the error. Richard Tkacik’s family is suing the Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center and a Richland Township funeral home over the mix-up…
A mix-up at Simpson Family Mortuary in Inglewood, Calif. caused the family of Darlene Davidson to bury the wrong body. When family alerted the mortuary their relative looked different in her casket, they told them it was because she was embalmed. BY VICTORIA TAYLOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 3:19 PM The…
Alice Barr, KHOU 11 News11:34 p.m. CDT August 1, 2014 HOUSTON — A man who said goodbye to his mother at her funeral earlier this week will have to do it all over again after learning the wrong body was buried in the family’s plot. “I remember the days when she looked like this,” said…
By Chris Blank, Associated Press Writer JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s attorney general on Friday accused a funeral home of improperly handling bodies, including one that was stored in an electrical room for 10 months without being embalmed or refrigerated. The woman, identified in a lawsuit only as “J.H.,” died Sept. 9 from several types…
Seventy-three-year-old Evans Davidson is already stricken with grief after losing his wife, Darlene Davidson, of 51 years. Adding to his grief, the funeral home accidentally buried the wrong woman in his wife’s plot — even after Davidson informed the employees that he was “pretty certain” the corpse he saw during the open casket viewing was…
Bodies of two victims from a plane crash in Union County were sent to the wrong families. Updated: 10:06 a.m. Friday, March 26, 2010 | Posted: 11:53 p.m. Thursday, March 25, 2010 By Lynn Hulsey, Staff Writer DAYTON — The bodies of two men who died in a March 5 plane crash were misidentified by the Montgomery…
N E W Y O R K, June 12 By Karen Matthews Body ID tags were accidentally switched at a funeral home, and one woman wound up being buried in the other woman’s grave even though at least one relative noticed something was amiss. “This is a terrible mistake,” Unity Funeral Chapels’ Clifford James said today. He said…