oldfella1962
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‘Losing her all over’: Parents seek answers after daughter’s remains go missing
Kamaron Hickman and Fatima Nettles decided to exhume and cremate their daughter’s remains 22 years after her death. Now, the cemetery says there are no remains in the plot they purchased.
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but not unexpected, especially here in Augusta. But the weak sauce excuse of "due to the passage of time..." doesn't cut it.
Playing fast & loose with the chain of custody of a human body is beyond the pale. This is why I have no desire to be buried at Arlington Cemetary.
They have already been busted for burying the wrong bodies in the wrong sites and putting the wrong markers on the sites and so on. And these are the mistakes they know about. This reminds me of when my mother died a couple of years ago. She was living in a "group home/senior care center" place in Idaho. I sent her a "Flowers dot com" Mother's Day gift as I usually do and also on her birthday. On or about Mother's Day the group home calls me and asks if I am the son of "first name, last name" and confirmed that I was. "Well, she passed away from a heart attack a couple of months ago." Maybe I'm nit-picky, but I asked them why I was just now finding out about this. Their excuse was that the woman who ran their facility got fired and took a bunch of records with her. They googled the address on the gift box and got my phone number. They said that because my mother never had a will made out (she didn't have two quarters to run together - no need for a will) they couldn't track any of her relatives down. I reminded them that there would be phone records (all calls go through the front desk) of the many calls I made to her, and even a call from that facility to me when she had a life-threatening health emergency a couple of years before her death. Again, they blamed the woman who got fired rather than their contingency procedures for things such as this. To this day I never got a death certificate even though the facility now - obviously - has my phone number and address - unless they dumped that information ten minutes after they called me.