Bodies removed from foreclosed funeral home

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PONTIAC, Mich. — The bodies of five people and cremains for 22 others are on their way to a county medical examiner's office after the funeral home sending them to their place of rest was foreclosed on Friday morning.

Pontiac, Mich. Medical Examiner's administrator Robert Gerds said the bank holding the note for the House of Burns Memorial Chapel has been working with his office for a couple of weeks to avoid mishandling of the remains. The 50th District Court in Pontiac scheduled the foreclosure to start at 3 a.m. Friday, he added.

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Gerds said family members of the people who have been cremated can pick up the cremains if they have proper identification. The bodies will only be released to another licensed funeral director.

Gerds said he didn't know if families had already paid for funerals slated to be held at Burns – or whether they would have to pay another funeral home, too.

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1. That's terrible