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Indigent ashes into diamonds at Fairfield Township? Funeral home asks trustee to give back cremains

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Indigent ashes into diamonds at Fairfield Township? Funeral home asks trustee to give back cremains

Funeral home owner says he thought Fairfield Township trustee’s question of turning unclaimed ashes into diamonds was random. Former employees claim Coles was serious, stored cremains in a safe

Dave Bangert
Aug 13, 2021
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Indigent ashes into diamonds at Fairfield Township? Funeral home asks trustee to give back cremains

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As word got out that Fairfield Township Trustee Taletha Coles might be storing cremated remains of people, possibly to eventually pay to have them pressed into diamonds, the owner of a Lafayette funeral home has asked her to return them so they may be placed in a cemetery.

In a letter sent to Coles Thursday evening, Jonathan Fisher, …

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