Lots of emotions coming from the community following service.

The casket of newborn Madison baby doe being placed in the back of a hearse a local reporter tweeted with the clip. 'Lots of emotions coming from the community following service. 'She never had a proper life, so she was definitely going to have a proper funeral.'Ī video, shared on Twitter, shows baby Madison's tiny white casket being placed inside a hearse, flanked by 14 first responders. 'We really just wanted to give baby Madison Doe a final rest in peace,' McKee said to local outlet ABC 6.

The chief said his first goal is to 'find out who did this' and his second goal was to make sure Madison is 'properly buried.' McKee said he was committed to giving the baby a funeral. 'Madison will never be forgotten,' the obituary reads, noting that the newborn was found by 'two heroes who will remain nameless.' The baby's obituary, shared on the funeral home's website, said that the public was invited to attend visitation and a Memorial Service officiated by Plain City Police Chaplain Martin Guerena. Newsweek reached out via email to Plain City Police Chief Dale McKee, Plain City village officials and Ferguson's Funeral Home. On Saturday, more than 100 community members gathered in Plain City, Ohio for the funeral of an unidentified newborn found in the back of a garbage truck earlier this month. In the Getty image, Gabriel Tavarez prepares equipment inside of a hearse at Perches Funeral Home in El Paso, Texas, on December 4, 2020. Investigators are waiting for the final autopsy report from the Montgomery County Coroner's Office, he said.Ĭommunity donations covered the cost of her funeral and burial, McKee said, adding that Forest Grove Cemetery and Ferguson Funeral Home provided the services for free. While the coroner's preliminary report shows the little girl appeared to be a 'full-term newborn' with her umbilical cord still attached, a cause of death was not revealed, Plain City Police Chief Dale McKee told local media last week. The baby girl was discovered in the rear collection part of a garbage truck on Thursday, June 15 on the border of Plain City, an Ohio village of roughly 4,000 people, police said. More than 100 people packed an Ohio funeral home to say goodbye to a newborn who was found dead in a garbage truck earlier this month, according to local police and media reports.Ĭommunity members paid their respects on Saturday morning to the unidentified newborn, dubbed Madison Baby Doe because she was found in Madison County, Ohio, according to local outlet WBNS.

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