Judge says no to funeral home license
Judge says no to funeral home license
WARREN
Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court has refused to allow former Niles funeral director Robert P. McDermott to regain his funeral director’s license pending the outcome of an appeal.
The Ohio Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors revoked McDermott’s funeral director’s license and that of his funeral home in July after it concluded that the funeral home misappropriated more than $150,000 in prepaid funeral expenses for more than 50 customers.
But McDermott appealed the license revocations in common pleas and asked Judge Kontos for a stay of execution of the revocations. The license-appeal case is still pending.
The funeral home, on Warren Avenue, was sold at sheriff’s sale in August, the result of a foreclosure filed against the funeral home in April 2010.