The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office said 14 families have claimed some of the cremains found inside a foreclosed Dayton house co-owned by former funeral director Scherrie McLin.

The coroner’s office was able to locate some of the families and some of them contacted the coroner’s office after they heard the news about police removing the cremains of 56 people from a closet at 2121 Philadelphia Drive.

McLin, former funeral director of the McLin Funeral Home in Dayton, co-owns the house with her half-sister Tanya Anderson. The sisters bought the house from their mother, Edith Crosby, in 2000, according to Montgomery County Auditor’s records.

The cremains were the same ones found in the funeral home in October 2011 when state investigators had court-ordered permission to search the facility for items related to prepaid funeral contracts. At the time, the investigators could not remove the cremains because they did not have court-ordered permission, according to Vanessa Niekamp, executive director of the Ohio Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors.

Investigators have not said how or who moved the remains to the house.

State law requires that cremains be disposed of 60 days after they are not claimed. Disposition of cremains are to be in a grave, crypt or niche - an alcove or a recess in a wall typically used to display an urn. However, a funeral home can allow remains to sit in a funeral home well after the 60-day mark, Niekamp said.

The state board became the court-ordered receiver of McLin’s prepaid funeral contracts after the state found that McLin violated nine state laws and administrative codes, resulting in her funeral director’s license and the funeral home’s license being suspended in March 2011. Those licenses were permanently revoked in January.

The Montgomery County Prosecutor’s office is still investigating whether criminal charges should be filed against McLin regarding claims by the state board that $100,000 in prepaid funeral service money is unaccounted for.

The coroner’s office was expected to have all the death certificates of the deceased, Ken Betz, coroner’s office director, said earlier this week. He also said a couple of local funeral homes and cemeteries have volunteered to help with the disposition of unclaimed cremains. It is not clear how long the coroner’s office will attempt to notify families of the deceased.

McLin is the daughter of the late C.J. McLin Jr., a Dayton power broker and longtime Ohio representative who died in 1988, and the half-sister of former Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin, who quit the family funeral business over seven years ago.