MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A widely known Memphis funeral dwelling was fined by the state in a consent order after a mixup involving cremated stays.
R. Bernard Funeral Companies on Lamar, the topic of the Netflix sequence “Buried By the Bernards,” was ordered to pay $7,475 in civil penalties and investigation prices to settle the declare.
The state opened an investigation after a WREG Downside Solvers investigation final 12 months.
A person mentioned he opened an urn that was speculated to include his mom’s ashes in September 2021, and located a handwritten label inside with the identify “Gooch.” He believed the stays had been switched with one other particular person and misidentified.
The funeral dwelling responded that the stays have been accurately recognized regardless of the paperwork error, however mentioned within the consent order that they understood the confusion attributable to the label.
The consent order was signed Feb. 22.