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Some Ga. Crematory Suits Get Final OK PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 09 June 2004
June 8, 2004

ROME, Ga. - A federal judge gave final approval to $13.5 million in settlements in a lawsuit over hundreds of corpses that were dumped at a Georgia crematory, according to a lawyer in the case. The payouts, approved Friday, come from 22 of the funeral homes that sent bodies to the Tri-State Crematory, plaintiffs lawyer Robert Smalley said Tuesday. Families have until June 18 to file claims, he said.

The 22 are among more than 50 funeral homes that agreed to settlements in the lawsuit brought on behalf of 1,600 relatives of people whose bodies were sent to the crematory between 1988 and 2002 from Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama.

The federal judge in Rome gave tentative approval to the settlements in March. Still awaiting final approval are $26 million in payments by several uninsured funeral homes and those agreed to by the insurance company of the family of former crematory operator Ray Brent Marsh.

Marsh faces 787 state criminal charges stemming from accusations that he dumped 334 bodies he was supposed to cremate and passed off cement dust as ashes to the families.

The corpses were found strewn across the grounds of the crematory in northwest Georgia.

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/8874066.htm
 
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