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Updated: 10:31 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 | Posted: 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011

McLin ordered to turn over funeral contracts

Suspended funeral director failed to show for a Sept. 8 hearing.

By Kelli Wynn

Staff Writer

DAYTON — Scherrie McLin, whose funeral director’s license is suspended, has until Oct. 3 to turn over documents to the state relating to $676,266 worth of pre-arranged funeral contracts McLin Funeral Home Inc. handled.

If McLin does not comply with the order issued Sept. 19 by Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Steven Dankoff, the state Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors on Oct. 4 is authorized to enter the funeral home, 2801 N. Gettysburg Ave., McLin’s home at 1827 Harvard Blvd., and the home of her son and former funeral home employee Mark Donelson at 115 Bennington Drive and seize all documents relating to the funeral home’s pre-arranged funeral contracts.

“To date, our attorney Cheryl Hawkinson, has not been contacted by Sherrie McLin or anyone on her behalf,” said Lisa Peterson Hackley, communications director for the state Attorney General’s Office, on Thursday.

The state board filed suit against McLin after they suspended her license and ordered operations at the funeral home to cease in March. The suspension came after the state accused McLin of violating nine state laws and administrative codes.

McLin did not show up at her Sept. 8 summary suspension hearing in Columbus, where about 10 people were subpoenaed to testify.

Columbus Attorney Marc Meyers was the hearing officer and was given up to 45 days to make a recommendation to the state board on whether the suspension against McLin should continue, stop or if she should lose her director’s license.

The state board will await Meyers’ recommendation before it decides on whether to pursue action against Donelson, according to Malik Hubbard, director of the state board. Donelson is accused of claiming to be a funeral director and embalmer on Facebook, statements that the state board alleges are not true.

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