Daddy's World: Pontiac funeral home evicted

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Pontiac funeral home evicted

Saturday, October 25, 2008
Mike Martindale / The Detroit News

Caskets, urns moved to parking lot; owners had fought foreclosure, money woes for 2 years.

PONTIAC -- Operators of a Pontiac funeral home evicted on Friday have been fighting foreclosure and money problems for more than two years, according to court records.

The eviction made for a macabre sight when neighbors woke up Friday to several caskets, cremation urns and other items strewn across the House of Burns Memorial Chapel and Funeral Home parking lot.

"We have had several calls from people asking about their relatives (remains) and this has added insult to their injuries," said Robert Gerds, administrator at the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office, where remains were sent. "One told me they were just there on Thursday making some final arrangements and no one said anything to them (about the eviction)."

The home owes $67,000 in back taxes and appeared to be operating in violation of an order from Pontiac District Judge Preston Thomas that the home stop taking bodies for embalming after July 4. State investigators are reviewing the matter to determine whether operators of the home will face criminal or civil actions, Gerds said.

Robert L. Burns, who operated the funeral home, could not be reached for comment Friday. His attorney, Kerry Phillips, declined to discuss the foreclosure.

"Sad thing is that it sounds like they knew about this months ago, and this could all have been avoided today," said Pastor Antonio Gibson, who along with parishioners of his New Experience Church helped move materials out of the funeral home Friday morning.

The eviction was especially difficult for Calvin Ball and his wife, who rushed to the facility because a relative's funeral arrangements were pending at House of Burns.
"It's horrible to think they would just put them (bodies) out in the lot," Ball said.

http://www.detroitnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081025/METRO/810250369/1409

Thanks to Carol Henton for sending this out. PEACE!

Daddy.

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When we were in Texarkana last week, there were signs in people's yards
that said, " America , prayer our only hope" with 2 Chron. 7:14
underneath. We certainly need God's help!

I have no idea who started this, but I certainly agree with this e-mail. I
heard a preacher on TV tonight that said if we will pray for our nation that
things will turn around

After a day of contemplation and soul searching, I have decided to reach
out to my friends and relatives and ask you to do something that has been
troubling me for a long time.

Our nation is/has been on the slippery slope for a long time. If you look
around you will find corruption, greed, moral decay, and a steady move
away from the things that made us great. The principles upon which this
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name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their
wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and
heal their land."

I am convinced that we must pray for our nation and its leaders and ask
for forgiveness. So I ask you to join me in this plea to our Lord.

Would you please send this to people in your address book (send it to all
of them); ask them to pray EVERYDAY. (25 to the 5th power is
9,765,625 people.) IMAGINE if each person reaches TEN others...or all
TWENTY FIVE!

If you do and they comply, we will lift up millions and millions of
prayers a day to our Creator. He will hear us and in faith will answer.

Let me just add a quote from Ronald Reagan "If we ever forget that we are
one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." I truly
believe this is why the United States of America is in the shape we are in
today. Most people have forgotten that we are one nation under God! Let us
as Christians stand up and remind people of this ~ Have a blessed day!

--"Live simply, love generously,
care deeply, speak kindly, and
leave the rest to God."

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