The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office and Forensic Center is seeking to contact the family or next of kin of the following deceased individuals.

When the coroner’s office encounters a decedent who is unclaimed, disclaimed or estranged from their family, the current policy is to cremate the remains and retain them.

“However, I am overhauling this policy to create a more practical approach,” Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said. “I believe there is no valid reason why these remains cannot be returned to families who wish to receive them.

“My goal has always been to collaborate with families to the best of my ability, facilitating a reasonable final disposition that serves both the county and, most importantly, the families of their loved ones.”

The following cremains and their date of death are currently in the care of the coroner’s office.

·Herbert Jackson, May 14, 1988;

·Alfredo Rojas, July 4, 1992;

·Jerome Lobach, Jan. 28, 2009;

·Roland Young, July 10, 2012;

·Wayne Persing, Nov. 23, 2012;

·Vivian Strickland, Aug. 31, 2014;

·James Skies, Oct. 19, 2016;

·Elaine Dries, Nov. 5, 2017;

·Albert Cuomo, June 1, 2018;

·Wojciech Wiatrowski, Aug. 31, 2018;

·Joseph Grohman, Nov. 8, 2018;

·John Breidinger, Feb. 14, 2004;

·Anne Nemchik, Dec. 26, 2022

·Dick Cooper, Oct. 20, 2022.

If anyone has information regarding the next of kin or family of the decedents, contact the office at 610-782-3426.

The return of these cremains will be at no cost to the family who wants to obtain them.

Any cremains that remain unclaimed and in the care of the coroner’s office will be buried in a group at the county cemetery. Each decedent will be vetted for possible veteran’s burial at Indiantown Gap National Cemetery.