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

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Sep 28, 2021
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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…

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