WASHINGTON, D.C. — A former high-ranking D.C. funeral official has been fined and reprimanded following a heartbreaking incident involving the missing ashes of an infant. The case has raised serious questions about accountability and oversight within the District’s funeral industry.
A Family Still Searching for Answers
Brittani Davis, the mother of Macari Jackson, is still left with one question that haunts her every day:
“Where are my son’s ashes? And whose ashes do I have?”
Davis lost her infant son last year and entrusted Dunn and Son’s Funeral Home in Northeast D.C. with his cremation. But what followed was a devastating mix-up—one that has yet to be fully resolved.
Disciplinary Action Against Funeral Director
Asanti Williams, the designated funeral director at Dunn and Son’s Funeral Service and, until recently, the Vice Chair of D.C.’s Board of Funeral Directors, has been formally reprimanded and fined $2,000 by the D.C. Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection (DLCP)…