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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