Poetic Obituaries: Still, his family says, none

of [Lloyd Eric] Johnson's foibles should have justified what happened next. According to his mother, Catherine Johnson of Yucaipa, Eric's ashes were turned over to a former friend with whom he had a falling out, and she summarily dumped them in a river in Washington state.

from San Bernardino County Sun: Mother loses chance to bury son in family plot

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