Fairfield Trustee Taletha Coles ready to release indigent residents’ ashes stored in her safe

Coles says ashes-into-diamonds accusations stemmed from a joke. Now she’s ready to return ashes to funeral home that wants to give them proper burial

Fairfield Township Trustee Taletha Coles. (Photo: Dave Bangert)

More than a month after she admitted to a Lafayette funeral home that she was storing the cremated remains of indigent residents in her township office safe, Fairfield Township Trustee Taletha Coles told a Lafayette funeral home director she was ready to take him up on his request to get the…