Did a funeral home cremates Gabriel Wortman, despite his last wishes ?

cremation of the GOTTERDAMERUNG killer

Most people do not realize that putting their detailed funeral wishes in a will, even pre-paying for it , legally cuts no ice.

Your dear, dear friend the executor is free to ignore all of your funeral wishes.

I mention all this, because you may recall that in Gabriel Wortman’s May 2011 will, he specifically directed : do not embalm or cremate me, bury me in a Hudson’s bay blanket in a concrete vault in the Portapique cemetery next to my home there.

But apparently this was all ignored.

A post appeared briefly on Facebook forum about GW, saying “he was cremated.” (Apparently by Walkers Funeral Home in Dartmouth. where Gabriel Wortman had once worked).

The person referenced as making the statement told me December 4 2020 that their Facebook account was hacked and they were never a funeral director at Walkers. So no evidence that Walkers did cremate Gabriel Wortman.

While Lisa Banfield was stated as the executor in the 2011 will, with her own sister as witness, Lisa is perfectly within her rights to refuse to do the job, after GW’s death.

Which may be why the NS office of the Public Trustee seems to be handling his estate.

That office may have decided on cremation.

Legally they are allowed to ——- but only if Gabe hadn’t already paid in full for a plot at Portapique —— as executors have a high duty not to waste the estate’s money on one type of funeral when another is already paid for.

Possibly only the directors of the Portapique Cemetery Incorporated will be able to set us straight on that last point : NS Registry of Joint Stock Companies suggest they are the Ryan and Davison families of Portapique, now scattered to near-by communities.

If GW had paid for a plot and was then the estate was refused a burial there because it turned out he was a mass murderer (or gay or some such thing), we could have our very own Guibord Case on our hands here in Nova Scotia....