Class-action lawsuit filed against South Deering funeral home for mishandling 56 bodies

A Texas woman launched a class-action lawsuit Tuesday against the South Deering funeral home that allegedly mishandled the remains of her father along with dozens of other bodies that were found in various states of unrefrigerated decomposition last week. South Chicago Chapel took possession of Terrance Fallie’s body the day he died Aug. 4, according to the suit filed in Cook County Circuit Court by his daughter, Dyanna Burt-Finnie. That was four days after the Illinois Department of Financial…