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were a steakhouse, you’ d be smelling steak,” he said.
“You can’t enjoy your own yard in this beautiful neigh- borhood,” complained Linda Colucci.
Now she thinks she knows why: Ivan’s ashes weren’t in the urn. Instead, his body had been buried three days earlier, according to the wishes of an- other woman who claimed to be Ivan’s wife, at Baltimore’s Mount Zion cemetery. In early August, Street filed a lawsuit against the funeral home for $8.5 million, calling the urn displayed at the memorial ser- vice a “sham.”
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While neighbors consult with lawyers about next moves, Axelrod said the company will continue to explore solutions to the noxious odors.
Funeral Home Foul-up
The funeral home’s presi- dent, Brandon Wylie, denies the accusation: “We vehement- ly deny the claims advanced by Ms. Street and assert that the underlying matter was handled with the utmost sensitivity to- ward the loved ones of the de- ceased.”
In January, Demetra Street of Baltimore attended a me- morial service for her husband, Ivan, complete with a photo of him next to an urn at the front of the room at Wylie Funeral Homes.
But after the service, funer- al home personnel whisked the urn away and wouldn’t turn over Ivan’s ashes, she told The Washington Post.
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