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Lawsuit alleges Granite City man's remains sat in Lambert Airport warehouse for 3 days, rapidly decomposing

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Edward Boone, 74, died while visiting Canada on Aug. 31, 2022. His daughters, Ellis and Boyd, entered into a contractual agreement with Irwin Chapel in Granite City to safely transport and preserve Boone's body, prepare him for viewing for the family and arrange funeral services to the plaintiffs' expectations. However, on Sept. 5, 2022, the plaintiffs claim they were contacted by an employee of Irwin Chapel who stated that Boone’s body was ‘not in good shape’ and needed to have a ‘tough conversation’ with them. The plaintiffs claim the defendants acted in ‘extreme and outrageous’ conduct when they failed to properly clean, embalm, store and transport the body.
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Lawsuit alleges Granite City man's remains sat in Lambert Airport warehouse for 3 days, rapidly decomposing

The daughters of a Granite City man who died while fishing in Canada claim their father’s body sat in a warehouse at St. Louis Lambert Airport for three days, suffering from rapid decomposition, because funeral homes in Canada and Illinois failed to properly preserve and collect his remains. Plaintiffs Rachel Ellis and Kimberly Boyd filed the complaint on March 6 in the Madison County Circuit Court against Irwin Chapel Inc., Irwin Chapel, a prof…

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Madison - St. Clair Record broke the news in on Friday, March 8, 2024.
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