Funeral home must change its name

InfoSource: Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio  -- Ohio regulators have ordered the new owner to change the name on a funeral home that cremated the wrong child's body and had its license suspended.

The Columbus Dispatch reports the state Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors approved a new license Tuesday for what had been the Marlan J. Gary Funeral Home in Columbus. But the panel said new owner Thor Triplett should use his own name and gave him two weeks to revise the home's signs and website.

Under its former owner, the home mistakenly cremated a 14-month-old boy against his parents' beliefs.

A judge last week stopped the funeral board from blocking the home's takeover over the name issue. An attorney says Triplett still wants to keep the Gary name and may go back to court.