Kane County Coroner to hold memorial service for unclaimed individuals
Kane County Coroner Rob Russell, along with Pastor Talaat McNeely of Purpose City Church, will hold a memorial service for 29 unclaimed individuals whose cremated remains were left in the care of the Kane County Coroner’s Office.
Since 2013, the Coroner's Office has interred unclaimed remains as part of their commitment to ensure these individuals are treated with dignity and respect.
The nondenominational service will take place at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 30, at the St. Charles Township Cemetery North mausoleum, 1200 N. Fifth Ave. in St. Charles.
Unclaimed remains are those for which attempts to contact next of kin have been unsuccessful or where no one has come forward to claim them after being notified of a death.
Check the list below and contact the Coroner’s office at (630) 232-3535 if you are family and would like to claim the remains of a loved one.
The list of unclaimed individuals
• Oct. 26, 2022 Pamela Sue Ciancio
• Dec. 7, 2023 Artis Hicks, Jr.
• Dec. 6, 2023 Michelle Renee Luebbing
• Jan. 23, 2024 Roy Zvi Rachovitsky
• Feb. 7, 2023 Kevin W. Gordon
• Aug. 31, 2023 Emilio Perez
• Jan. 20, 2024 Ar Min
• July 21, 2023 Michael Robinson
• June 28, 2023 William C. Martin
• May 25, 2022 Baby Pearson
• Jan. 12, 2022 Robert M. Sroka
• June 8, 2022 June Jackson
• May 24, 2023 Pierre Lee Johnson
• Oct. 30, 2022 Eduviges Pena Tijerina
• Aug. 25, 2022 Jerry Dale Earl
• Dec. 19, 2022 Osmin Hernandez Melendez, aka Hernandez
• Nov. 4, 2022 Thomas Leonard O’Connell
• Oct. 19, 2022 David Salerno
• Nov. 11, 2022 Michael Gardner
• Sept. 4, 2022 Eugene Pierce
• Sept. 19, 2022 James Moore
• Sept. 15, 2022 Michael Koop
• Dec. 5, 2021 Rick Keeling
• Jan. 12, 2022 Grace G. Spencer
• April 16, 2022 William Paul Fiefer
• March 24, 2022 James Lee McFate
• Jan. 27, 2022 Benjamin Chew
• Feb. 4, 2022 James Lynn Baughman
• Dec. 28, 2021 Jose Luis Sanchez
A nominal fee may apply to claim cremains.