Southland Stories
A Sorry Sight at Homewood Memorial Gardens
Caskets with bodies were stacked and unburied until the Cook County Sheriff stepped in this weekend. NBC 5 and the Chicago Tribune were on the story.
News reporters were in the south suburbs on Saturday covering another misstep in the handling of the deceased at Homewood Memorial Gardens cemetery in Thornton, where 11 coffins with bodies inside were found stacked atop one another. The Cook County Sheriff intervened and oversaw the burials, according to NBC Channel 5's Christian Farr and the Chicago Tribune's John Byrne. The bodies were left unattended for up to a week, according to Byrne: Dwayne Cook discovered the bodies in the chapel Wednesday while trying to visit the gravesite of a friend, Hershal Jordan, who had an internment ceremony at the cemetery earlier this week. Cook said cemetery employees guided him to where they said Jordan, who was to be buried through a state aid …
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Dwayne Cook
2:24 pm on Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Anita, this is Dwayne Cook. Thanks so much for your remarks. It's nice to know others appreciate the work you have to do to bring justice about. Thanks to everyone's feed back. By the way, Hershal was in the army for 8yrs. They treat a veteran like this? The Bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil. How sad! more ›