‘We have no closure’: Southeast Queens family demands justice from Jamaica funeral home after wrongful cremation of 93-year-old matriarch’s remains

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Many of her family members called for the New York State Bureau of Funeral Directing to investigate the J. Foster Phillips Funeral Home in Jamaica for ignoring directions that were printed on her death certificate to repatriate her remains to Guyana to be buried alongside her grandmother in the family plot. We have lost her in death, we have lost her body, we have no closure for our mother,” her daughter Christine Weaver said. Everyone in the family knew, the funeral home knew that she wanted to be buried, but the funeral home failed to do their job.” Foster Phillips Funeral Home said in a statement.