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Union County N.J. cemetery denies allegations that caskets were moved, disturbed Updated: May. 06, 2021, 8:17 p.m. | Published: May. 06, 2021, 8:17 p.m.
Plaintiff witness Derrick Gunn, a funeral director in Little Rock, testified that when he went to Galilee on Nov. 3, 2013 to find Renisha Johnson's body, he saw crushed and crumpled caskets piled ...
At issue in the battle between the cemetery and funeral home industries was the amount that cemeteries must hold in trust when they sold caskets for pre-planned funerals. The trust would hold ...
Kevin James, Sr., said legally, the cemetery should have gotten the approval of the state and the funeral directors to move the caskets. But he said, "We're not aware of that happening." ...
At Monrovia Cemetery, the deluge had done the unthinkable. So much water seeped into the ground, putting the soil under immense pressure, that caskets began popping through the earth.
When people buy caskets as part of pre-planning their funerals, they enter into contracts with the funeral home or cemetery to guarantee their casket at the time of their death, in case the ...
Caskets that floated from their tombs during flooding from Hurricane Ida sit along a roadside in Ironton, La., Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. Hurricane Ida swept through Louisiana with furious winds that ...
Davenport said his funeral homes are only a few miles away from Windridge Memorial Park and Nature Sanctuary, a cemetery in Cary, Ill., that has a nature trail dedicated to natural burials.