TAMPA — Last Wednesday, a small group gathered at the Garden of Memories for services for Joy McCann Culverhouse, the 96-year-old widow of former Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Hugh Culverhouse Sr.
Two people were notably absent: Culverhouse’s only son and daughter.
Joy Culverhouse’s body was not there, either. It has been kept at a Tampa funeral home while a battle plays out pitting her children against her grandson, who had power of attorney during the last years of Joy Culverhouse’s life.
Now two weeks after their mother’s death, Gay Culverhouse and Hugh Culverhouse Jr. still refuse to sign paperwork releasing her body from the funeral home.