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An Ohio woman is livid after a Kentucky funeral home used a plastic Walmart bag to hold her son’s ashes.

Nancy Bronner of Amelia, OH recently opened up the urn containing her son’s ashes and was shocked to find her teenager’s remains nestled among an iconic plastic shopping bag, WCPO-TV reports.

Bob McDaniel of McDaniel Funeral Home in Dry Ridge, Ky., said the family requested that he divide the ashes, but that the containers they provided didn’t seal and had no bags.

Instead, McDaniel used materials he had at his disposal- i.e. the Walmart bag.

The deceased boy’s father, Thomas Mitchell, says that although McDaniel may have used poor judgement, his actions were not malicious.

Bronner, however, may be filing a complaint.

This article appears in Aug 28 – Sep 3, 2013.

Alaina Nutile is the Web Editor who oversees all digital content and social media initiatives for Cleveland Scene Magazine and Detroit Metro Times. Before joining the staff in June 2013, she interned at Business Insider in New York City, and at La Hora in Quito, Ecuador. Alaina is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where she double majored in English and Spanish. Her interests include Japanese food, Breaking Bad, and career development advising.

4 replies on “An Ohio Woman is Livid at a Funeral Home for Putting her Son’s Ashes in a Walmart Bag”

  1. I have an idea – since the family wanted to divide the ashes, just put them in another urn and charge them for it. One thing you can also do for something that doesn’t seal is use this thing called masking tape. If you use enough of it and wrapped it right, that urn would have sealed up properly.

  4. So sad. A little common sense and empathy would have said, ‘don’t use a walmart bag.’

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