In entanglement news, God rest his soul, A Baltimore woman, Demetra Street, paid a funeral home to cremate her deceased husband and conduct a memorial service.
She is now alleging that the employees buried her husband at the request of a second woman who at the time also claimed to be his wife.
She is now suing the Wylie Funeral Homes, Demetra Street claiming that after the service, the employees quickly took the URN and refused to give it to her when she asked for it.
According to the Washington Post, Street believes that the ashes of her husband, Ivan Street, weren’t in the urn because the funeral home had buried Ivan at Baltimore’s Mount Zion Cemetery three days earlier at the request of the other woman claiming to be the deceased man’s wife.
Demetra alleges the funeral home profited off both women, a claim the funeral home president Brandon Wylie denied in an interview with the Baltimore Sun.
“DUE TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY OUR CONFIDENTIALITY REQUIREMENTS AND THE EXISTENCE OF PENDING LITIGATION, WE ARE NOT AT LIBERTY TO DISCLOSE ALL OF THE INFORMATION RELEVANT TO THIS MATTER. HOWEVER, WE VEHEMENTLY DENY THE CLAIMS ADVANCED BY MS. STREET AND ASSERT THAT THE UNDERLYING MATTER WAS HANDLED WITH THE UTMOST SENSITIVITY TOWARD THE LOVED ONES OF THE DECEASED.”
Read below via The Washington Post:
On Jan. 9, 2021, Ivan Street died suddenly from congestive heart failure at 67, according to the lawsuit. Demetra and Ivan were separated and living apart at the time, Coffin said. Records reviewed by The Washington Post show that, legally, Demetra Street was Ivan’s wife at the time of his death.
Demetra went to the funeral home on Jan. 13, identified Ivan’s body and provided her marriage certificate to prove she was next of kin. Street then entered into a $2,500 contract for Ivan’s cremation and a memorial service with the funeral home.
Shortly after, however, another woman allegedly told the funeral home she was Ivan’s wife. She provided the funeral home with a marriage license from October 1997 that was lacking a seal, according to the lawsuit, which claims she insisted that Ivan be buried.