IJ Morris At Star of David Manufactured Significant Mistake On Demise Certification. Now Asking Judge To Resolve.
BY: ANDREW COLTON | Editor and Publisher
BOYNTON Beach front, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2021 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — You can imagine Shirley Glickman’s shock to obtain out that her spouse of a lot more than 30 many years was actually solitary at the time of his loss of life in June.
Edwin Glickman, 89, of Boca Raton, died on June 11th. His relatives retained IJ Morris at Star of David in Palm Beach front County to manage the arrangements. These preparations incorporated filing the death certificate with the Point out of Florida.
But IJ Morris made a important mistake — listing Edwin as acquiring died a widower.
The issue: his spouse, Shirley Speiller-Glickman, is extremely a lot alive.
Now, attorneys symbolizing SCI Funeral Services, which owns IJ Morris, are inquiring a Palm Beach County Decide to allow the loss of life certification to be reissued.
From a court submitting attained by BocaNewsNow.com: “Edwin Glickman was married to Shirley Speiller Glickman at the time of his demise. A copy of their Relationship Certification is connected. SCI Funeral Products and services of Florida d/b/a I J Morris at Star of David of the Palm Beach locations handled the funeral providers for Edwin Glickman and ready the Certificate of Death fo Edwin Glickman.”
“Due to a clerical error,” wrote lawyers, “the Certificate of Demise signifies that his partner, Shirley Speiller Glickman, predeceased him.”
Edwin Glickman’s daughter, Kim Glickman-Lerin, declined to remark on the make a difference or no matter if the family members may perhaps have a assert against SCI. We have not reached out to Shirley. As a matter of plan, BocaNewsNow.com does not routinely issue 85-year-old surviving spouses about the demise of their substantial other.
But we do know that Edwin and Shirley had been married in December of 1989 at Central Synagogue in New York City.
According to an obituary reviewed by BocaNewsNow.com, Mr. Glickman died of Leukemia, was an Army veteran, and “was accountable for establishing the Excelsior and Galleria mixed-use structures, each and every of which debuted as the tallest residential building in Manhattan.”
The “petition to amend demise certificate” was just filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court.
