Several months after a fire damaged a well-known funeral home in Marietta , a family is accusing the owners of theft.
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The family pre-paid for a funeral before the fire but said the owners disappeared after it happened.
The funeral home was in foreclosure at the time of the fire and scheduled to be auctioned off. Jen Borkat still has the receipt from the funeral she pre-planned in 2022, as her mother, a breast cancer survivor, battled another round of cancer. Borkat said The Norman Medford-Peden Funeral Home and Crematory in Marietta received a little more than $1,000 for cremation services.
“She had chemo and radiation the entire time. She fought hard for three years but during that three years, there were many times we thought we’d lose her. My husband because he had done the same for my dad when he passed away, pre-planned the funeral so that it would be one less thing we’d have to worry about during that time and that was in 2022,” said Borkat.