Suit Filed After Funeral Home Mixes Up Bodies

A Charleston funeral home that’s closed now is being sued after a family says it mixed up their relative’s body with another woman’s. Madeline Yost’s daughter Peggy Bowles tells WCHS-TV that her mother’s dying wish was to have a closed casket funeral, but instead the Bartlett Burdett-Cox Funeral Home displayed Yost, open casket, to another woman’s family and friends at a viewing, before burying her in that woman’s grave the same day back in January. Bowles’ attorney Russell Williams says in addition to damages, they want to make sure this doesn’t happen to another family. The funeral home closed shortly after the lawsuit and mix-up happened. Yost’s remains were exhumed and she was buried next to her husband.