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PENROSE , Colo. — After weeks of delays, federal officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began demolishing the Return to Nature funeral home in Penrose on Tuesday morning.
"It didn't connect for me because the name of the funeral home we used was Return to Nature in Colorado Springs," she said, adding she thought her sons remains had gone there, not to Penrose."So it wasn't until I got a call from Randy Keller and Alicia, and Special Agent Cohen with the FBI, that I was notified that David had been identified.
Page wasn't the only victim family member at the ceremony. Others sat and listened to officials as they held onto pictures of loved ones. Despite the move to tear down the physical reminder of where nearly 190 bodies were improperly stored, Page said she felt as if the demolition was reopening a wound.
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