An Ohio funeral home is in hot water after accidentally cremating the body of a 14-month-old child.<\/p>\n
The state has suspended the license of a North Linden funeral home that failed to catch a mistake by the coroner’s office and had the wrong body cremated. Marlan J. Gary<\/strong>, owner of the Marlan J. Gary Funeral Home on Cleveland Avenue, will lose his funeral director’s license for six months under a ruling by the Ohio Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors.<\/p>\n The state board also suspended the funeral home’s license for six months.<\/p>\n “Cremation is irreversible, so it is vitally important that every precaution and safeguard be taken to ensure accuracy,” hearing officer Marc Myers<\/strong> said in a report to the board. “The funeral director cannot simply rely on another, be it a driver or the coroner’s office, to ‘get it right.'”<\/p>\n Gary’s<\/strong> funeral home had 14-month-old Jaylen Talley<\/strong> cremated in May 2010 after a coroner’s office employee mistakenly released the child’s body to a driver whom Gary<\/strong> employed. Both bodies were identified correctly, but the coroner’s employee, the driver and the business hired by Gary<\/strong> for the cremation did not check to ensure they had the right boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Ohio funeral home is in hot water after accidentally cremating the body of a 14-month-old child. The state has suspended the license of a North Linden funeral home that failed to catch a mistake by the coroner’s office and had the wrong body cremated. Marlan J. Gary, owner of the Marlan J. Gary Funeral […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGary’s<\/strong> funeral home was supposed to handle the body of a 22-day-old boy.<\/p>\n