Bracket Funeral Homes

Funeral services will be at 11:00 am on Thursday, February 7, 2019 at Zion Lutheran Church, Cleghorn. Pastor Timothy Moe will officiate. Visitation will take place from 9:00 am until the time of the service at the church. Burial will take place in the Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery immediately following the service. Military Rites will be rendered by American Legion Post...

Read more trending news Authorities found 36 fetuses in boxes and 27 others in freezers while raiding Perry Funeral Home on Friday, The Detroit News reported. “I’m stunned,” police Chief James Craig told the newspaper. “My team is stunned. God help those families.” Officials found remains dating as far back as 2015, WDIV reported, citing the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. The agency suspended the funeral home’s license Friday and the license of its director, Gary Deak, citing “heinous conditions and negligent conduct,” according to WDIV. The bodies were discovered one week after authorities found the bodies of 11 infants hidden in the ceiling of Detroit’s Cantrell Funeral Home. Officials had closed the facility in April after finding conditions that posed "an imminent threat to public health and safety,” including bodies in an advanced stage of decomposition, "covered in what appeared to be mold," according to authorities. Craig said at a news conference Friday that a parent came forward after seeing reports on Cantrell Funeral Home to report that remains were improperly disposed of at Perry Funeral Home.  Lawyers for the father and mother involved in the case told the Detroit Free-Press that they believe the bodies of as many as 200 infants may be found in improper possession of the Perry Funeral Home. According to attorneys Peter Parks and Daniel Cieslak, employees of the home regularly left infant remain with the Wayne State University School of Mortuary Science, “then faile...