Celebrity funeral director John Beckwith Jr. — the star of the TLC reality show “Best Funeral Ever” — is being sued by 17 families for desecrating their loved ones’ remains.In claims filed last year and today at Dallas County Court system, families say the flamboyant owner and CEO of Golden Gate Funeral Home in Dallas, Texas, mishandled their late relatives’ bodies, returned the wrong ashes, disposed of remains without permission and, in one case, filled an urn with what appeared to be tiny white pebbles.Jack Hales’ law film, Hales & Sellers, is representing the heartbroken families behind the negligence claim, and also filed the three similar actions against Beckwith in 2021. “They’re concerned their loved ones were not given respect for their final farewell,” he said of his clients.
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