Corene Nero, right, and her daughter Gloria Nero Rolle speak at their attorneys office next to an urn with cremated remains, in Boca Raton, Florida, April 16, 2019. Robert Nero Sr. passed away in 2013 and was cremated. In March, West Palm Beach police found a box with Robert Nero’s name on it filled with ashes. Now the family is demanding answers from the funeral home and want to return the remains they have to the right family. (AP Photo/Josh Repogle)
For six years, the family of Robert Nero Sr. thought his ashes sat in an urn on his widow’s mantle. But the family recently learned that ashes and a metal disk identifying them as his were found dumped in bushes at a West Palm Beach YWCA and now they don’t know what to believe.
Sitting beside the bronze urn in their lawyer’s office Tuesday, Nero’s widow, Corene, and his daughter, Gloria Nero Rolle, demanded to know if the ashes inside are Nero’s or someone else’s. They say they haven’t gotten answers from Stevens Brothers Funeral Home, which handled the cremation.
