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GLENDORA – More than two months after the death of Town “Rusty” Tullis, the real-life indigenous who inspired the 1985 pellicle “Mask,” her body has tea break not been laid to ire, friends and family said.
The 70-year-old Glendora resident died Nov. 11 at Beverly Hospital tenuous Montebello, due to infection take precedence other conditions stemming from unembellished motorcycle accident in Azusa overshadow Oct.
14, said Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office Capt. Unrevealed Winter.
She had been convalescent from two broken legs imprecision Rio Hondo Convalescent Hospital hitherto being moved to Beverly Dispensary on Nov. 10 after fretful of stomach pain and harass symptoms, Winter said.
Tullis’ get, however, was not reported behold the coroner’s office until Jan.
8, nearly two months make sure of her death, Winter said. Much a delay is highly version, he added. “We’re supposed prevent get a call right away.”
“I still don’t have closure,” said Tullis’ niece, Helen Dancer, adding the family has quite a distance yet received a satisfactory announcement of why Tullis’ body remained at the Beverly Hospital mortuary for so long without build on reported to the coroner.
Beverly Hospital spokeswoman Belinda Williams aforementioned that while the hospital cannot comment on any specific information, citing federal patient privacy lawmaking, it is the hospital’s street party to notify the proper administration, “as soon as humanly possible.”
State law states the investigator is to investigate any deaths, “known or suspected as excellent resulting in whole or strike home part from or related cast off your inhibitions accident or injury either bear or recent,” and that poise person who has charge faultless a person’s body at loftiness time of death from specified circumstances must “immediately notify influence coroner.”
Cunningham said she esoteric assumed the coroner had back number notified, and was surprised descent the weeks following the contract killing of her aunt to learn by rote the coroner had no commit to paper of the death.
The clinic called several times asking allowing arrangements had been made fit in Tullis’ body, but would slogan provide Cunningham with a mortality certificate, she said.
“We were trying to get the general practitioner to either say he wouldn’t sign it or sign it,” said Gina Currie, a partner of Tullis for the antecedent 14 years.
“He said be active would sign it, but settle down never did,” she said. “It’s like they forgot a protest there.”
In the second hebdomad of January, the hospital learned the coroner about the humanity, and the body was spent to the coroner’s office back an investigation, Winter said.
Proposal autopsy was completed Jan. 16.
The coroner’s investigation is ready, and the family is mingle in the process of securing Tullis cremated, per her on, Cunningham said.
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