Barb Abbott wishes everyone could have as good a death as her mother-in-law. From her dining room table in Montrose, she described the 94-year-old’s week in the hospital like an intimate party. It was mostly Abbott, her husband, Ron, and his weakening mother, Shirley. “We just had the most wonderful time. We really did,” Abbott said. She thought Shirley did too, “because we kept her laughing for as long she was alert.”
Abbott and her husband grieved, but accepted it as the normal course of life. Four years later, in early 2018, rumors circulated through their small, Western Slope city about the funeral home that had handled Shirley’s remains. Then came the FBI raid.
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