A household mourning the lack of their father was shocked after they went to attend his wake and as an alternative discovered a stranger laying inside his coffin.
Jose Daniel Diaz Felipe, often called Danielito to his family and friends, handed away on the age of 84. His youngsters ready to say a closing goodbye to him Thursday at a wake in Washington Heights.
After they confirmed up at R.G. Ortiz Funeral House, they have been shocked by who they discovered laying in his casket.
“We open the coffin and discover one other man. And so they have been attempting for hours to persuade us he was our father,” Jose Luis Diaz, the person’s son, mentioned Friday.
Diaz mentioned his father was bald, like him. He mentioned the person laying within the coffin had hair and was a lot taller his dad, who was five-foot-three. The household instantly tried to get solutions from the funeral residence concerning the whereabouts of their dad.
“They are saying that they present in the identical week, they received one other particular person with an identical identify,” Diaz advised Information 4. “We do not know the place our father is correct now.”
This incident not the primary time a member of the family has accused R.G. Ortiz Funeral Houses of points. The NYC Division of Shopper and Employee Safety sued R.G. Ortiz Funeral Houses after receiving almost 50 complaints concerning the situation of the stays of family members and misrepresenting or concealing the costs of providers provided.
In 2024, the funeral residence settled the swimsuit agreeing to pay $600,000 to purchasers and pay $100,000 in civil penalties.
Diaz mentioned the funeral residence advised him his father’s stays at the moment are on the firm’s essential workplace within the Bronx.
“They are saying that they cremated him, however we don’t know for certain if that’s our father,” he mentioned.
Information 4 made calls to the funeral residence firm, however didn’t hear again.
