BRAINERD — In 2025, Crow Wing County received applications to cover the burials of 77 individuals and 51 of those were approved. By state law, the county is responsible for the final disposition of ...

St. Joseph's Cemetery administrator Mitch Fanning believes that Cayuga County shouldn't decide where social services recipients have to bury their loved ones, even if the county pays the burial costs.

They lived and loved and fought and worked and played games and listened to music, and they died penniless, unable to afford their own burial and without relatives who were able or willing to cover it ...

The cremated and unclaimed remains of 79 indigent Lake County residents will be buried at Ascension Cemetery in Libertyville Monday with a ceremony for the first time. A procession accompanied by Lake ...