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Unclaimed cremains need a place to rest
Coroner addresses commission about solution
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Bulloch County Coroner Jake Futch
Bulloch County Coroner Jake Futch has the unclaimed cremains – cremated remains – of 16 deceased persons in a closet in his office. He says there are at least 60 more unclaimed cremains stored elsewhere in his office and at two local funeral homes, adding that an undetermined number may also be kept in other funeral homes. During a Bulloch County Commission meeting Tuesday evening, he suggested Bulloch County purchases a mausoleum crypt to give the unclaimed dead a respectable place to rest and “be stored in a decent manner.”. Such a crypt would hold 300 cremains, he said.
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