My wife’s dad died unattended of a heart attack three years ago and I saw what her mom had to do. Best advice is get several (I think she got 10) certified copies of the certificate. For her, she had to send one to social security, to his pension, to all the life insurance companies, the bank to get his name off the accounts, etc. That’s something I had never heard and it cut a lot of time off going back and getting copies.I just got back in. What a day this has been. I want to thank you all for your words of advice, comforting and encouraging words.
Really been a frustrating day. Got with our funeral home people and got our pastor set up. That is about where the good news ends.
They have my daughter in Marion County Coroner office. They did not have us do a positive ID on here last night, so they called me last night to ask if they could email me a picture and some forms and do it by email. Apparently since she was never arrested they had no finger prints they could find. I said sure and they said I would have email by 1pm today, never got email...called them back and they said the guy who does that has left for the day, it would be tomorrow
Funeral home cannot get her until coroner releases. So they say it will be tomorrow.
Life insurance cant be filed until we get a death certificate, and our funeral home people said it could take 6-8, maybe 10 weeks to get a death certificate in Marion County.
Bank account had no beneficiary on it, so they at least froze the account so nobody can steal what she has in it.....but we can't claim it for 45 days and have to go to court to get some kind of small estate paper.
Thank you all again.
When my wife's father passed away unexpectedly, we got the advice to get at least 5 certified death certificates. We got 10 just in case. I think we used at least 7 of them.My wife’s dad died unattended of a heart attack three years ago and I saw what her mom had to do. Best advice is get several (I think she got 10) certified copies of the certificate. For her, she had to send one to social security, to his pension, to all the life insurance companies, the bank to get his name off the accounts, etc. That’s something I had never heard and it cut a lot of time off going back and getting copies.
That's right Tim. I cannot even start to express how much it means to me, to have so many people say nice things and be praying for us. You guys and gals are some good people.Randy, you and yours have been in my thoughts today.
We are heavy hearted at your loss.
Know there are so many that do care.