Family feud leads to stolen ashes from Queens funeral home: lawsuit

A household feud between a lady and her dead sister’s children bought so unhealthy, she allegedly stole her sibling’s ashes from a Queens funeral dwelling, a lawsuit claims.

The merciless deceit performed out when the lady pretended to be her niece, and referred to as Leahy-McDonald Funeral Home in Richmond Hill asking to have a younger relative choose up the ashes of Mohie Mangru, 71, based on courtroom papers.

The facility launched Mangru’s ashes, with out confirming that the lady who referred to as was truly Mangru’s daughter, a lawsuit claims.

The daughter, Noressa Bethune, grew to become suspicious when nobody referred to as her after her mother’s Feb. 28, 2021, funeral to retrieve the stays, she mentioned in courtroom papers.

Bethune claims she was advised “that only she would receive the death certificate and decedent’s ashes because she signed the contract” with the funeral dwelling, based on a Queens Supreme Court lawsuit filed by Bethune and her siblings.

She later realized one other individual had claimed the ashes — and unfold them earlier this month at Rockaway Beach, based on a stay Facebook video.

Bethune and her aunt don’t get alongside, mentioned Bethune’s lawyer, Eric Rothstein, who mentioned the aunt is the one who referred to as the funeral dwelling pretending to be Bethune, and is believed to have unfold the ashes. Bethune and her siblings usually are not suing their aunt, Rothstein mentioned.

The funeral dwelling says in a March 2 authorized submitting responding to Bethune’s claims that it’s not completely guilty for the error, which was “caused” by the dead girl’s youngsters.

A lawyer for the funeral dwelling didn’t return a message looking for remark.