Cemetery
Central Co-op of Great Britain is an interesting company. They are a company with a history of over 100 years and operate in the grocery, legal services, floral, and funeral business. According to this Wikipedia page, the company operates over 1,000 funeral homes and is now the largest provider of Death Care…
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Earlier in August I came across this feature article titled “One of Oregon’s most prominent families appears to want another family’s burial plot” from Willamette Weekly of Oregon about a disagreement in ownership of grave lots involving two families. And, Service Corporation International (SCI) as the cemetery owner finds themselves right in the…
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In a press release Propel Funeral Partners of New Zealand announced a somewhat unusual acquisition. Propel announced in July that they had completed the acquisition of Decra Art. Decra Art is believed to be New Zealand’s largest monument and headstone manufacturer. According to their website that you can access here, they stock…
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Johnny and Stacey Grimes are the owners of the Grimes Funeral Home in Kerrville, Texas, and according to this article from the Hill Country Community Journal they recently purchased the two Garden of Memories cemeteries in Kerrville to expand their business. More often you see family funeral homes acquire other funeral homes…
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“Synergy” is an interesting word and one that is almost always used when companies align, merge, or are aquired. It is defined as such, “the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects”. That’s exactly…
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We are just a weekend away from honoring our veterans with Memorial Day celebrations across the country. In word we received last month we learned that Musgrove Family Mortuaries and Cemeteries was getting a head-start on the celebration by announcing a new “Court of Honor” to “to remember and respect Oregonians who served…
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When I think of the cemetery in my little community in Minnesota. I’m guessing, like a lot of other communities that grew up in the American “Land Rush”, the city cemetery came out of necessity. When a pioneer citizen died the custom, and more than likely, the religious way to take…
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Funeral directing company A.W. Lymn of Nottinghamshire, Great Britain, has been giving the green light to construct an ancient style facility for the disposition of cremated human remains. As this article maintains, “they have been granted permission for the first and only modern barrow site in the East Midlands”. (Editor’s Note: I…
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Funeral Director Daily recently learned through this article from Public Media for Central Pennyslvania that Centre County will be building a 160-unit columbarium in Zion, Pennsylvania, to house urns that have went unclaimed. According to the article, the columbarium will cost over $19,000 and the county has 41 cardboard urns at this…
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Kansas United States Senator Jerry Moran recently testified at a United States Senate Veterans Affairs Committee meeting that “When mourning a death the last thing a grieving family needs is some bureaucratic hurdle or some substandard support.” That comment came in response to the information provided, according to this article, that “there…
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