Paranormal reference offensive to family

I found the spot on Page 1 in the June 23 Accent section (“Paranormal team investigates restaurant”) to be offensive and in extreme bad taste.

Clarence W. Beatty was my great-grandfather and I can assure you that there was nothing “paranormal” about the sequence of events that preceded and followed his untimely death on April 1, 1965.

It took many years for the loved ones he left behind to get over our grief; and the tasteless reference to the business he used to own brought back many unpleasant memories.

As a boy in the early 1960s, I recall helping to tidy up the crematorium located in the basement of that facility.

Perhaps we should alert the folks at 319 Paranormal and the facility's current owners and their clientele of its one-time existence.

Dann L. Myers

West Des Moines