Family members claim 15 cremated remains

TOLEDO (AP) -- Nearly half of the cremated remains of 33 people found at a funeral home have been claimed by family members within the last week.
The remains had been left at Sherrill-Harden Funeral Home, which was closed last summer after eight decomposing bodies were found there.
The cremated remains of 18 of the 33 have not been claimed, said Mark Merz, president of the Funeral Directors Association of Northwest Ohio.
The association plans to bury the other remains at a memorial service May 26, but it wants to give family members a chance to claim their loved ones first.
One woman came from Baton Rouge, La., to claim the remains of her son, Michael Jamil Crier, who died as an infant.
The funeral directors association took over responsibility of the remains left in Sherrill-Harden Funeral Home after it was shut down last year.
The funeral home closed after the eight bodies were found June 20.
Some bodies had been gnawed by rodents and were left for months. One was left since 1996.