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Massachusetts funeral home must explain how they buried woman in wrong grave

Boston Globe
Metro Desk
November 4, 2010

A state disciplinary board today ordered a Brookline [Massachusetts] funeral home [Stanetsky Memorial Chapels, owned and operated by Service Corporation International] to explain how they mixed up the bodies of two men in August, burying one man in the wrong grave, digging him up in time for his actual funeral – and then allegedly failing to tell one family about the mistakes.

[Because of a reporting error, a story in Thursday’s Metro section about a Brookline funeral home accused by the state of mishandling funeral arrangements misidentified the gender of the two people whose bodies were mixed up. They were women.]

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