Funeral home director subject to ‘scary, filthy freak show’ complaint
surrenders license
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[March 06, 2024]
By JERRY NOWICKI
Capitol News Illinois
jnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com
A Centralia funeral home director who was subject to a complaint that
his embalming room looked like a “scary, filthy freak show” agreed to a
permanent revocation of his license late last week.
Moran Queen-Boggs funeral home director Hugh Moran signed a consent
order on Friday, March 1, a copy of which was obtained by Capitol News
Illinois. In it, he agreed never to reapply for his funeral director or
embalmer license in the state.
The agreement with the state’s Department of Financial and Professional
Regulation noted Moran maintained the embalming room in “extremely
unsanitary conditions.”
IDFPR inspected the building on Monday, Feb. 26, according to the
document. The inspection occurred three days after Capitol News Illinois
sent questions to the department about its more-than 10-week delay in
responding to a complaint about the facility.
“The embalming room was spraying water from pipes overhead with bottles,
trash, fluids, sheets, clothes and things unrecognizable all over the
room,” the complaint stated. “This place is horrific, looks like
something from a scary, filthy freak show.”
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Moran Queen-Boggs Funeral Home Director Hugh Moran entered into a
consent decree last week agreeing to surrender his funeral home and
embalming license. He also agreed never to reapply for such a
license in Illinois. (Illustration by Capitol News Illinois;
highlight added)
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Images provided to Capitol News Illinois depict piles of dirty sheets, a
dead rodent rotting in a stairway and water running from pipes in what a
source identified as the facility’s embalming room. The source of the
images requested anonymity due to safety concerns.
IDFPR last week would not confirm an investigation was underway, but by
Friday, Moran had signed the consent order.
Video shows leaky pipes, piles of trash and generally filthy conditions
in what a source identified as the embalming room of the Moran
Queen-Boggs Funeral Home in Centralia. The source who provided the video
requested anonymity due to safety concerns. The funeral home’s director,
Hugh Moran, would not confirm its authenticity.
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