A Mesa family says they lost control over what happened to their husband and father after he passed away, and two months later, they’re still trying to understand how it happened.
Raymond Wood Jr., 54, passed away on July 9 at HonorHealth Four Peaks Medical Center in Mesa.
His wife of 32 years, Leslie, says the family contacted several mortuaries before choosing where they wanted Raymond taken. But when she called the hospital to coordinate everything, she says she was initially told they did not know where his body was.
Then she learned another funeral home, one the family says they never selected, had already picked him up.
By the time the mistake was discovered, Raymond had already been embalmed, meaning his body had been chemically preserved and prepared for viewing.
His wife says it was also done without his dentures, something she says he never went without.
The family says the funeral home acknowledged that the transfer should not have happened and arranged to move Raymond...
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