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Body hauled away; funeral home is sued PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 05 April 2006
April 5, 2006 ASSOCIATED PRESS HOLLAND, MI -- Relatives of a man whose body was taken mistakenly from the garage of a funeral home by a waste hauler and dumped into a landfill have filed a lawsuit seeking more than $1 million in damages. The suit, filed by the family of Erwin Jordan, accuses Notier-VerLee-Langeland Funeral Home and Priority Arrowaste of being "negligent and reckless," the Grand Rapids Press reported Tuesday. John Sterenberg, co-owner of the funeral home, and Terry Nienhuis, the waste hauler's general manager, both declined to comment on the lawsuit. The remains were being stored in the locked garage inside a body bag within a cremation box when a Priority Arrowaste driver picked up the box Jan. 5. The body was being kept there while Notier-VerLee-Langeland officials waited for Jordan's family to decide on whether to bury or cremate him. The funeral home earlier said the cremation box was on a gurney and should not have been mistaken for trash. But Priority Arrowaste, which had a key to the garage, said its driver found the box close to the garbage and recyclable containers. Police officers and landfill workers searched for Jordan's body Jan. 6 and 7 at the Autumn Hills Landfill in Ottawa County's Zeeland Township, but did not find it. Jordan died Dec. 20 at age 66. His children asked them to stop searching because of safety concerns. http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060405/NEWS01/604050353/1003/NEWS
 
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