Funeral Home looking for family of cremated loved ones
By Nelson Daily Staff
Staff at Thompson Funeral Home would like to re-acquaint family with deceased love ones, cremated in Nelson and forgotten in storage at the Heritage City facility.
To complete the task staff placed an advertisement in the local newspaper in accordance to provincial legislation.
The title of the advertisement, Disposition of Unclaimed Cremated Remains, lists more than 70 family members unclaimed and in storage at Thompson Funeral Home.
The ad reads:
Any person with a right to control disposition of the remains under the
Cremation, Interment and Funeral Services Act must contact Thompson Funeral Services Ltd. as soon as possible to recover the cremated remains.
The oldest unclaimed cremation is Emma Ferworn, who died in 1951.
The most recent is Marlin McKenzie, cremated January 6, 2004.
Thompson Funeral Home owner Robert Sylvester said staff has attempted to contact family members but if the family now lives out of town it’s difficult to make contact.
Thompson Funeral Home placed the ad earlier this month and will do so again.
Cremations still unclaimed after the May 31, 2012, deadline will be interred in a common grave in the city cemetery.
Below is a list of the deceased followed by their cremation date.
Bachelor, Jean Margaret January 22, 1985
Bastin, Mabel Catharine November 10, 1967
Bell, Jean Christina July 16, 1990
Bennett, Marjorie Martha May 31, 1976
Blayney, Clifford July 7, 1977
Breeze, Arthur October 9, 1969
Brown, Mildred Francis 1962
Brown, Arthur M. August 21, 1996
Byres, Robert July 19, 1977
Childress, Bernice Leslie April 5, 1977
Childress, Robert Clarence October 20, 1977
Clark, Edwin Herbert Clark November 13, 1997
Colquhoun, Jean Wenn August 8, 1986
Cooper, George Taylor November 28, 1977
Crosby, Mervin Eugene May 10, 1988
Dayman, E.M. June 23, 1961
Dayman, Charles Arnold September 1, 1964
Dent, James Dennis April 8, 1969
Farmer, Helmi August 7, 1970
Ferworn, Emma 1951
Forbes, Edward May 8, 1986
Fountain, Wayne Allen August 24,1996
Gilker, Mary Evelyn March 31,1993
Hendry, Earl Duane May 11, 1965
Higgins, Charles Raymond September 25, 1973
Hopkins, John Alan November 28, 1977
Hunter, Margaret Jennie January 23, 1969
Johnstone, Elizabeth January 5, 1964
Kirk, Edwin Clayton December 17, 1968
Koska, Erma W. September 15, 1981
Kosma, Ladlislo September 8, 1969
Lawrence, Percy August 17, 1983
Lawrence, Benjamin J. July 4, 1984
Linden, John May 3, 1965
Lovelette, Faye December 30, 1992
Magnuson Gunnard E. April 6, 1983
McGregor, Edward James January 10, 1977
McKenzie, Marlin January 6, 2004
Methven, Peter Geoffrey Neale November 25, 1976
Mitchell, Baby boy December 18, 1981
Moore, Lucy Brett April 21, 2001
Moxley, Raymond Donald August 24, 1996
Nolte, Hedwig August 26, 1986
Odmark, Josefa January 3, 1980
Oliver, Mary Ellen October 22, 1972
Pearce, Frank Buck Master February 4, 1978
Pearce, Frank July 24, 1965
Peterson, Carl December 5, 1989
Phillips, Elizabeth 1960
Pearce, Elsie May 20, 1972
Purser, Roy A. September 26, 1972
Turner, Richard Alexander May 29, 1966
Robertson, John July 31, 1987
Sheets, Clara May July 11, 1961
Smales, Vera Emma November 4, 1974
Spurway, Rowland 1952
St.Thomas, Earl Harrison June 19, 1985
Stanger, Pauline Alma September 7, 1977
Stevens, Andre Leon Enile October 29, 1980
Stevens, Henry Fred September 2, 1992
Streets, Clive Alan May 29, 1979
Sullivan, Kathleen Mary November 23, 1981
Sutcliffe, David April 20, 1977
Tofell, Neil Eugene August 21,1996
Treen, Sarah February 29, 1972
Turner, Richard Alexander May 19, 1966
Turnquist, Karl September 8, 1987
Vance, Larry Wallace December 21, 1983
VanManen, William Johann 1952
Veale, Frances, Elizabeth September 1, 1977
Wells, Irma Joan November 22, 1994
Williams, Eleanor Agnes January 11, 1994
Wolfhard, John Wolfgang March 12, 1979
Woolls, Ernest Howard May 30, 1963
Woolls, Harriett July 5th, 1967
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