San Antonio lawsuit blames funeral home for dad s burial as a pauper
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Arthur Martinez is shown with his wife, Estella Martinez. He was a widower when he died June 28, and was supposed to be cremated, according to a lawsuit against the funeral home that was handling it. The suit says the funeral home failed to pick up Martinez’s body from a hospital and he was buried by the county./Photo courtesy of the Arthur Martinez family.
A San Antonio family has sued a funeral home, claiming the facility failed to pick up their father’s body from a hospital for cremation, so it was deemed abandoned and Bexar County buried him in a pauper’s grave.