interment

Michele Castañeda-Martinez’s job as a division administrator for the county’s Department of Public Health includes ensuring a proper cremation and interment of the ashes of people who die such lonesome deaths.

“After 200 years of being on display and subject to scientific testing, these individuals deserve an interment with all the dignity and respect that we can give them,” says Penn Museum Director Christopher Woods.

If no one is found after three years, the county will handle the woman’s interment.

As Plains busily prepared for a series of public events leading up to Carter’s funeral service and interment here next week, her hometown grieved the loss of its loving matriarch.

The statement called for demarcated and documented individual graves, saying hasty interments could lead to mental anguish for families as well as social and legal problems.