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Hunter Smith/The Express singer squad-neff burial company and cremation in the 135 W. Main Street, Howard, faces a criminal and civil liability for allegations that the business in their care had abused several places.

Howard-in of a lawsuit submitted on Thursday enabled a woman from Huntingdon County, a local funeral company whose corporation had to decompose her 92-year-old mother for six weeks instead of being cremated.

In the lawsuit, Sherry Cramer accuses Sherry Cram from Pennsylvania Furnace Singer-Kader-Neff burial company and cremation services in 135 W. Main Street in Howard, of great negligence in the treatment of her mother, Joan E. Donleys, remains that other reading may have suffered that other corps may have suffered to a similar suspicion have.

The lawsuit describes the actions of the funeral home as “extreme and outrageous” and claims that they “went beyond all possible limits of the decency”.

The funeral institute, which temporarily closed the search results of Google, was previously referred to as the squad-neff burial institute, until Garrett A. Singer took over in July 2023. Garrett singer Garrett Singer, Tyrone, Haley Singer, are referred to as defendants, with Garrett Singer being listed as the owner and operator at the relevant time in the relevant times. The accused are represented by James L. Kutz, Esquire.

The lawsuit submitted to the court for joint request requests a legal proceedings and, according to court files, calls for money damage outside the arbitration borders.

Cramer, the Executrix of the estate of Joan E. Donley, is represented by Louis T. Glantz, Esquire, from Glantz, Johnson and Associates, 1901 E. College Ave., State College, and Sauder Schelkopf, the lawyers of Legal Sciences, 1109 Lancaster Ave., Berwyn.

Joe Sauder, a lawyer who represents Cramer, told the Express: “Family trust funding companies to treat their relatives with dignity and respect. The allegations in this case are deeply worrying, and our customer requests the accountability for the extreme burdens and suffering caused by the actions of the accused. “

On November 11, 2024, Joan E. Donley died peacefully in her residence in Pennsylvania Ournance. According to the complaint, her daughter hired the services of the funeral home for transport, cremation and procurement of a death certificate. Immediately after the first contact, the Howard Funeral Home recorded custody of Donley's body, but did not require that her daughter signed paperwork or made payments at this time.

Cramer repeated repeatedly contacted with a singer squad-neff after the cremation, death certificates and the calling of the ashes of her mother, but received no clear answer and never received the remains, according to the complaint.

Once the funeral home Cramer announced that the forensic doctor was in possession of the body's body; On another, the accused stated that they had the ashes.

Singer squad-NEFF allegedly cited an unspecified problem with the death certificate, but gave no indication that there were problems with the remains themselves.

On December 19, 2024, Cramer learned that the state police and the forensic doctor had attended the funeral home in response to numerous complaints about missing death certificates.

“In further investigations, (Cramer) found that the remains of her mother had not been cremated and had actually been left in the funeral company for six weeks without cooling or proper storage,” the lawsuit said.

In the lawsuit it was claimed that Donley's body was found on a table in an advanced decomposition state.

Although Cramer was originally informed that the remains could not be identified due to the advanced decay phase, the investigators later found that the identification by a hip replacement day/ID number and dental records was possible, which confirmed that the remains of their mother were.

The investigators also indicated that they discovered additional bodies in the funeral company that may not have been treated properly, although they did not specify the condition or number of other corpses found.

Funeral companies are responsible for compliance with legal, ethical and professional standards in the treatment of human remains.

In the lawsuit it is claimed that Cramer captured “significant and severe emotional stress”, which caused persistent physical and mental symptoms, including, but not limited to depression, anxiety, anger, shame, guilt and severe stress.

Cramer requests compensation and penalty replacement by the funeral company as well as the legal fees and costs as well as any other relief that the court considers just and appropriate, or that it is justified as a law to impair because of negligent refusal of emotional stress, negligence, exploration, inventions, negligence, deposits and infringement.

“The civil lawsuit is a number of allegations – and that is exactly what they are allegations,” said Jim Kutz, the singer's lawyer in the civil matter and found that claims that were raised in complaints are not necessarily defined facts.

“Admittedly, there were some difficulties and some delays caused by a variety of problems, many of which were outside of my client's control,” said the lawyer. “It was certainly not intentionally, intentionally or malignant for every delay.”

In a statement, the public prosecutor's office of the County center stated that it would pursue criminal charges.

“The state police have completed an investigation into allegations of abuse of a body of the Garrett singer. These charges were approved by the public prosecutor's office of the Center County district and are expected to be submitted in the coming week. “