CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – A decomposing corpse found at an unlicensed crematorium in Seabrook was identified Friday as families worried about being given the wrong ashes deluged officials with calls.

But ashes in six urns from the Bayview Crematorium in Seabrook remained unidentified, underscoring a prosecutor’s warning there could be no assurance that ashes delivered to families in the past were the right ones.

“We cannot assure the public that the remains they received from this institution were the remains of their loved ones,” Rockingham County Attorney Jim Reams said Thursday. On Friday, he said phones in his Brentwood office rang off the hook.

State officials set up a hotline at the state mental hospital to handle the calls.

“I would like to express all of our deepest condolences to the families involved,” state medical director Dr. William Kassler said in announcing the line. “This must be a very difficult time for them, and we will do everything we can to give them the answers and the support that they need.”

The number is (603) 271-5300.

A raid Wednesday turned up the woman’s corpse in a broken cooler, two sets of remains being cremated in one oven and the 12 unlabeled urns, authorities said.

They said pacemakers and replacement hips were found in a trash bin outside Bayview, which had operated for six years.

Reams said ashes in the urns were identified by linking metal tags found in them to paperwork. He was hopeful the same could be done for the remaining ashes next week.

But if paperwork trail went cold, “there’s nothing left, really. Given the fact that they were willing to cremate two sets of remains together, it doesn’t bode well,” he said.

Seabrook town records listed Derek A. Wallace as Bayview’s owner in 1999. Wallace owns the Hart-Wallace Funeral Home in Lawrence, Mass.

After a hearing, he lost his Massachusetts licenses in August for infractions including owning the crematorium and a funeral home at the same time, which Massachusetts forbids. The Massachusetts Board of Registration of Funeral Directors and Embalmers also faulted him for “unfair and deceptive business practices” and said he made a “staggering” number of misrepresentations about his business interests.

He tried to cover up his involvement with Bayview by selling it to a parent for $1 in 2002, but continuing to run it, the board said.

He declined to comment Friday, referring calls to his lawyer, who could not be reached.

He could appeal the loss of his licenses, but there was no indication he had. A message left with the board was not immediately returned.

Reams identified the current owner as Larry Stokes, who he believed was vacationing in Florida. Stokes lives in Salisbury, Mass., where two telephones at the same address are listed for Lawrence Stokes and Lawrence Stokes Jr. One didn’t answer Friday and a message left on the other was not immediately returned.

A State Police document filed in Hampton District Court indicated that Larry Stokes is Wallace’s stepfather.

Gov. John Lynch convened a task force on crematorium regulation that held its first meeting Friday.

Kassler said it will seek answers to questions about public safety and health, consumer protection and worker safety.

“We will also look at our combined agencies, the procedures, policies, practices, rules and regulatory environment that is currently shared by several different agencies and look for opportunities to improve that process,” he said. “We’ll get to the bottom of this, and we’ll recommend improvements in the protocols to assure this doesn’t happen again.”

He said he couldn’t guarantee there aren’t other unapproved crematoriums in the state, but doubted it.

Most of the bodies cremated at Bayview came from Massachusetts, but state police said in papers filed in Hampton District Court that an unspecified proportion came from New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island. The papers did not give numbers or name funeral homes.

Some cadavers from Harvard Medical School may have gone to Bayview through a Boston funeral director, a school official who declined to be identified said Friday. He said the number was probably fewer than 50 per year.

“The school is very concerned,” spokeswoman Judith Montminy said. “We’re very sensitive about the situation, and to the desires and needs of our donors and their families. We seek to honor them in all our efforts.”