I have never had an experience like the one I had to live through on April 10, 2001. Both parents were killed in a car accident in Florida. I live in Tennessee. I had to go to Florida to sign for the release of the remains at the Holloway Funeral Home. They were contacted through the local funeral home to pick up the bodies, embalme them and ship them to Tennessee. They were picked because they were close to the airport in Tampa Bay. The funeral home personel would not let me see them because it was their policy that no one could see an un-embalmed body. I asked to make sure it was not state law and it was not. I explained to the funeral home personel that I had to go back to Tennessee and make arrangements and could not wait for them to be embalmed. I had been an Emergency Room Nurse for 30 years and had seen the human body in every shape, form and fashion. They would not let me see my mother. When they did arrive in Tennessee, the funeral home there had to open my mother's head and dry it out because it was leaking and turning my mother's silver hair PINK! About 12 hours later my step-father's head started leaking also. I hope you never have to deal with this situation when your family dies... Stay away from Holloway! I had to put one star just to post this, but they do not deserve it......
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