Montgomery County broke ground Monday on a permanent resting place for unclaimed and abandoned cremated remains, writes Emily Neil for WHYY.
The structure will stand beside the Coroner’s Office headquarters. County officials say it is the first of its kind at a Pennsylvania coroner’s office.
The office now holds nearly 300 sets of unclaimed cremated remains. Coroner Dr. Janine Darby first saw them stacked on file room shelves during a 2023 tour…