Description: A Grand Rapids family is getting an $80,000 settlement payout from a funeral home whose staff they say dropped their mother's coffin, causing her body to fall onto the ground outside the church where her funeral was about to take place. The incident happened Nov. 16, 2010 outside the Neland Avenue Christian Reformed Church in southeast Grand Rapids. Family members told 24 Hour News 8 that staff from the Ivy K. Gillespie Funeral Home in Grand Rapids was removing the casket carrying Ellnora James' body from the hearse outside the church when somehow the coffin fell and broke open. The woman's body fell onto the ground. Some family members witnessed the incident, though none of them were listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, family members told 24 Hour News 8.
Date:08/18/2012
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