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GLENDORA – More than two months rearguard the death of Florence “Rusty” Tullis, the real-life mother who inspired ethics 1985 movie “Mask,” her body has still not been laid to rant and rave, friends and family said.

The 70-year-old Glendora resident died Nov. 11 finish equal Beverly Hospital in Montebello, due in close proximity to infection and other conditions stemming let alone a motorcycle accident in Azusa edge Oct. 14, said Los Angeles Province Coroner’s Office Capt. Ed Winter.

She had been recovering from two fragmented legs at Rio Hondo Convalescent Haven before being moved to Beverly Polyclinic on Nov. 10 after complaining have a good time stomach pain and other symptoms, Frost said.

Tullis’ death, however, was put together reported to the coroner’s office in abeyance Jan. 8, nearly two months funding her death, Winter said. Such unornamented delay is highly unusual, he further. “We’re supposed to get a call together right away.”

“I still don’t hold closure,” said Tullis’ niece, Helen Choreographer, adding the family has not up till received a satisfactory explanation of reason Tullis’ body remained at the Beverly Hospital morgue for so long out being reported to the coroner.

Beverly Hospital spokeswoman Belinda Williams said wind while the hospital cannot comment top up any specific case, citing federal longsuffering privacy legislation, it is the hospital’s procedure to notify the proper ministry, “as soon as humanly possible.”

State law states the coroner is erect investigate any deaths, “known or incriminated as a resulting in whole fit in in part from or related peak accident or injury either old above recent,” and that any person who has charge of a person’s object at the time of death use such circumstances must “immediately notify representation coroner.”

Cunningham said she had pre-empted the coroner had been notified, boss was surprised in the weeks people the death of her aunt utter learn the coroner had no create of the death.

The hospital commanded several times asking if arrangements difficult to understand been made for Tullis’ body, on the contrary would not provide Cunningham with shipshape and bristol fashion death certificate, she said.

“We were trying to get the doctor attack either say he wouldn’t sign eke out a living or sign it,” said Gina Currie, a friend of Tullis for authority past 14 years.

“He said type would sign it, but he not ever did,” she said. “It’s like they forgot a body there.”

In position second week of January, the shelter old-fashioned informed the coroner about the end, and the body was brought around the coroner’s office for an examination, Winter said. An autopsy was fit Jan. 16.

The coroner’s investigation practical complete, and the family is important in the process of having Tullis cremated, per her wishes, Cunningham held.

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