County Backs Crypt For Remains Once Stored With Dog Licenses

Beaver County commissioners say they intend to give a permanent resting place to the 72 people whose unclaimed cremated remains the county has kept in document storage for as long as 19 years.

At today’s public work session, Commissioners Chairman Dan Camp said he acted after “an article and some discussion” about the unclaimed remains held at the county’s storage facility. BeaverCountian.com first reported August 3 that remains of indigent decedents had turned up in a plastic tote mixed in with dog license paperwork at the Wampum mines document storage facility. The county later moved them to a room down the hall from WBVP Radio’s broadcasting booth, where it rents storage space.

In This Article:

• The $11,900 quote — and what it buys.
• Who the coroner says was actually responsible for the unclaimed.
• The great-great niece who showed up.

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