A funeral home in Jacksonville, Arkansas is facing a $10,000 fine and loss of their crematory license at the direction of the state Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors in connection with a failed inspection of their practices of storing bodies. The funeral home, Arkansas Funeral Care, is also facing a lawsuit filed on Monday by Cheryl Cross-Smith. Cross-Smith claims that she suffered emotional distress and mental anguish after viewing her late husband’s decomposing body in his casket in November due to lack of refrigeration and neglect by the funeral home.
See Noel Oman, Widow Sues Funeral Home, Arkansas Online, Jan. 27, 2015.
