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County must step in when bodies go unclaimed
Hall sets aside $50,000 for disposal of remains
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Marion Merck cannot get a return phone call. The Hall County coroner is trying to get a family member on the phone to come claim the remains of a person in his office. “Families won’t return my calls to come pick them up and make arrangements to bury them, cremate them or whatever,” Merck said.