February 25, 2021
A Tennessee funeral director and embalmer who surrendered his licenses early in 2020 after he failed to return bodies to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala for burials has continued to offer funeral services in immigrant communities and, in at least one recent instance, neglected for months to deliver remains to a grieving family.
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Roommates and family of Ramon Lara Castillo, a 63-year-old Nashville house painter who died of liver cancer in October, said this week they do not know where the man s remains are being kept four months after his death.
At the recommendation of friends, Castillo s roommates had turned to Reid Van Ness to arrange for Castillo s remains to be returned to his sister in Mexico.