Sunday, August 2, 2009

Woman's search for brother in Pinellas Park leads to ashes

Woman's search for brother in Pinellas Park leads to ashes
By Andrew Meacham, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Saturday, August 1, 2009
PINELLAS PARK — The ashes lay in a white wooden urn, on a shelf in a locked room at the Anderson-McQueen Cremation Tribute Center. A sticky-backed, computer-generated label identified the remains: Brown, Steven. DOB 6/20/52.

The urn had sat on the shelf for about four weeks, next to the labeled remains of others. As the main repository in Pinellas County for unclaimed remains, it represents a kind of mezzanine level between a body's discovery and its dispensation.

If no family came forward to claim Brown's ashes in the next three months, they would be dumped in the Gulf of Mexico.

But on Tuesday, a key fit into the lock. An Anderson-McQueen employee retrieved Mr. Brown's urn and handed it to a courier.

On the other end, someone was waiting.
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http://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/article1023804.ece

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