Marsh parents seek dismissal from crematory lawsuit

CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE - The parents of indicted Tri-State Crematory operator Ray Brent Marsh asked a Tennessee judge Wednesday to exempt them as defendants in a class-action lawsuit. <br> <br> The lawsuit suit seeks damages from the crematory in northwest Georgia and some funeral homes. <br> <br> A lawyer for the parents asked a judge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to drop Clara and Tommy Ray Brent from the lawsuit. <br> <br> Stuart James told the Chattanooga Times Free Press there&#39;s no evidence the two had anything to do with the crematory since 1996. <br> <br> Clara Marsh is Tommy Ray Marsh&#39;s wife and the mother of Ray Brent Marsh. <br> <br> Lawyers say Tommy Ray Marsh started the crematory at Noble, Georgia, in 1982 before turning over the operation to his son. <br> <br> Twenty-nine-year-old Ray Brent Marsh was arrested in February 2002 and has been accused of accepting money for cremations he never performed. <br> <br> Records show at least 250 bodies sent to the crematory since 1998 were from Tennessee.