Losing a loved one can be painful enough and you don’t need more issues popping up to make the situation more stressful than it already is. Unfortunately for some Arkansas residents who trusted a funeral home to give their loved ones a dignified burial, they won’t be able to get peace of mind soon. The funeral home they entrusted was shut down due to mishandled bodies which meant they were halted from making burial contracts. This left families whose loved ones’ remains weren’t taken care of yet confused as to what would happen. One of those people who paid the company hundreds of dollars for their services is Shelia Hagerty from Ashdown. She’s still waiting to hear what’s to become of the remains of her 84-year-old mother. “My concern is that I am not going to get paid back, and I

When you trust a funeral home to take care of the remains of a loved one, you feel assured that they will provide dignity and respect. However, a funeral home in Providence is every family member’s nightmare. Bodies have been found by authorities to be unattended and decomposing. According to an article on ABCNews, “The Providence Journal reports that the Health Department released information showing that of the nine decomposed bodies discovered in the investigation of Pennine Funeral Home, eight have been identified and buried or cremated with the voluntary help of four funeral homes.” “The medical examiner says all eight died of natural causes between 2001 and 2013,” the report adds. Authorities are still unsure as to why the remains have been left uncared for all around the funeral home. It has also been found out that the funeral

Losing a child is the most terrible and heartbreaking of loses for any parent. Some may feel like they may never recover from it. However, some choose to rise up, although difficult, and channel their pain into creating something helpful for others. The Philips family, composed of parents Christine and David Philips and their daughter Bella, put up The Friends of Aine Foundation after their eldest daughter, Aine, lost her battle to a rare lung disease when she was just 8 years old. They then set on a journey to raise money for the Home Health and Hospice Care bereavement support group for children that Aine’s sister, Bella, attended herself. “It is incredibly inspiring to see how Christine and David have so positively channeled their sorrow into helping others,” said John Getts, CEO and president of Home Health and Hospice Care. So

A grieving family is deeply upset at how a Sacramento funeral home has failed to take care of their father’s cremation, well over a month after he passed away on December 14 of last year. The deceased Terrance Barton’s daughter, Carie Duckworth, expressed that “lying cold in a freezer is unacceptable.” “He promised,”  referring to funeral director Bradon Sharer. “‘I guarantee he will be cremated by Tuesday,’ I said ‘O.K., I will be here next weekend,’ Next weekend, it wasn’t done. You keep telling me the same line over and over, and you never answer my questions. I want to know where my father’s body is at.” When Fox 40 got a hold of Sharer he claimed that the whole fiasco was out of his hands and that they were “backed up.” The funeral home previously took care of the