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10/2004 - 1/2005


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Stewart to offer $200 mln of senior notes
01/31/2005


The traditions of mourning
Every culture and religion has to deal with death...
01/31/2005


Funeral industry no longer offers cookie-cutter services'
01/31/2005


Mortician's position: I'm just a regular guy
01/31/2005


Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, NY Will Sponsor Regional Perinatal Bereavement Conference in March 2005
01/31/2005


Funeral directors decry the Providence Journal's new 'paid' obit policy
01/31/2005


Pet Memories lets owners mark animals' death
01/31/2005


Crowding Cemetery Causing Concern at Ringling Memorial Cemetery In OK
01/31/2005


Manatee County will not be home to Florida's newest national cemetery.
01/31/2005


Web site offers cemetery, burial history
The cemetery information Web site contains burials by family name and location from 1880 to 1993...
01/31/2005


Unquiet grave source of strife
Couple argue man buried in their plot...
01/31/2005


Death gratuity is often a surprise
The "military death gratuity" is a one-time payment of $12,000 to the survivors of those killed in the line of duty...
01/31/2005


Carriage Services Completes Offering of $130 Million Senior Notes Due 2015
01/28/2005


Form 8-K for Rock of Ages Corp
01/28/2005


Stewart Enterprises Updates First Quarter Forecast
01/28/2005


Former funeral director of Burke-Tubbs Funeral Home pleads guilty in embezzlement case
01/28/2005


Pet cemetery allows animal lovers to give their pets a proper burial
01/28/2005


Family fury at plan for cemetery to serve Belfast.
Owners insist they won't sell their land...
01/28/2005


Across Cape, blizzard puts funerals, burials on hold
01/28/2005


Grave offence!
Council bosses are set to ban personal trinkets and mementoes from graves in sweeping cemetery clean-ups...
01/28/2005


Hickory City cemeteries run low on space
Despite dwindling number of plots, some officials say Hickory shouldn't buy any more land for graves...
01/28/2005


Cemetery crew steps softly while at work
Like many people, Kerry Dightman doesn't like the idea of treading over the graves of the departed. Unlike most, he sometimes can't help it...
01/28/2005


StoneMor Partners L.P. Declares Cash Distribution
01/27/2005


Grave-digging in winter is hard as ice
Small cemeteries close seasonally, but association wants year-round burials...
01/27/2005


Environmental assessment begins for national cemetery in Montevallo
01/27/2005


Trustees consider fencing to protect village cemetery in Waverly, NY
01/27/2005


Cemetery vandalized; $75,000 in damage at the Woodbine Cemetery in Puyallup
01/27/2005


Confederate group, blacks to clean cemetery Hendersonville, N.C.
01/27/2005


Cemetery wants decorations picked up
Cunningham Memorial Park is getting ready for annual spring cleanup...
01/27/2005


VA Awards Grant for Montana State Veterans Cemetery
01/27/2005


Developer won't move cemetery in Cape Charles
01/26/2005


Former funeral director Paul Menoche has been denied parole on his second try before the Rhode Island Parole Board.
01/26/2005


Demand for Honor Guard at funerals on the rise
01/26/2005


Robert D. Carpenter, a semiretired funeral director and past president of Klingel-Carpenter Mortuary, was named Tuesday as the Points of Light Foundation's Daily Point of Light
01/26/2005


Somali militiamen have begun building a mosque on the site of an Italian colonial-era cemetery in Mogadishu, which they desecrated last week.
01/26/2005


Plymouth may try to pass cemetery levy
More money for the village's two cemeteries likely will be sought from voters on the May ballot...
01/26/2005


County to conduct audit in Las Vegas land deal
Disappearance of cemetery requirement on parcel before sale prompts questions...
01/26/2005


Mid-Prairie pilot program selling coins for cemetery
Mid-Prairie School District fifth-graders help to raise money for Veterans Cemetery...
01/26/2005


Incident at City of Higbee Cemetery
Log chipper broke and sent a piece of steel rocketed 200 to 300 yards toward the cemetery...
01/26/2005


Service Corp.: Life, Death and the Psychology of a Project
01/25/2005


Local Dignity Memorial(R) Funeral Care Provider, Affiliated Family Funeral Homes, to Sponsor Tenth Annual Grief Seminar
01/25/2005


Waring-Sullivan Homes of Memorial Tribute to Sponsor Tenth Annual Grief Seminar
01/25/2005


Sharp Funeral Homes, of Swartz Creek, received the 2004 National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) Pursuit of Excellence Eagle award.
01/25/2005


Pinckney cemetery works to get in order
Officials can't tell if plots are full or if headstones correspond with the right burials...
01/25/2005


Suspect pleads guilty in desecration case in Marion County
01/25/2005


Dogs are to be banned from Perth and Kinross cemeteries following complaints they were being used as dog exercise areas.
01/25/2005


Dispute over Jewish cemetery in Yonkers is settled
01/25/2005


Cemetery information sought
The Bega Valley Shire Council is seeking information on plot reservations at Bermagui Cemetery...
01/25/2005


Cemetery stalemate fuels plot crisis fears in Belfast
Time 'running out to find new facilities'...
1/24/2005


Lucies Farm Learns it's not Easy Being "Green"
Seeking approval to create a 'green' burial park...
01/24/2005


Washing away history
"The cemetery was severely flooded during the disaster, and hasn't yet dried out."...
01/24/2005


Thieves beyond contempt
Couple sickened after heartless thieves stole a tree from the grave of their daughter in Chigwell Cemetery...
01/24/2005


Somali police chief probing cemetery desecration slain in Mogadishu
01/24/2005


Support group helps pet owners cope with death
When loss is of an animal, depth of grief often overlooked...
01/24/2005


New cemetery offers 'green sites' Work has begun on the first green burial site in Nottingham...
01/24/2005


Rezoning Issue: McCarran land deal criticized in NV
Cemetery restriction disappeared...
01/24/2005


Blame vandals, not society
So our teen cemetery vandals are victims of "society" and "we are all to blame,"...
01/24/2005


Form 8-K for Carriage Services Inc
01/21/2005


Matthews International Announces First Quarter Earnings and Declares Quarterly Dividend
01/21/2005


Stewart Enterprises Announces a Cash Tender Offer for All of Its Outstanding 10 3/4% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2008
01/21/2005


Selling caskets at lower prices sounds good, but it isn't easy
01/21/2005


A Kentucky funeral director is under felony indictments.
Grand jury is accusing Reid Rippetoe of violating a prearranged funeral contract and six counts of theft...
01/21/2005


Residents in battle over cemetery site near Belfast
01/21/2005


More than $20,000 donated toward cemetery restoration Court cases pending for suspects in September vandalism
01/21/2005


Italy outrage at destroyed graves in Somalia
The Italian government has condemned the destruction of an Italian colonial cemetery by militiamen...
01/21/2005


Catholic Church calls for tighter funeral rules
01/20/2005


Texas man angered over sale of area cemetery lots
01/20/2005


Sunnyside Memory Gardens owners agree to limited state receivership
01/20/2005


Cremation mix-up rattles family
A technician read the tag number incorrectly...
01/20/2005


Florence National Cemetery to get high-tech upgrade
01/20/2005


Cemetery agrees to help couple get replacement gravestone for son
01/20/2005


Memorial garden plan for Ben Nevis
It has been described as Scotland's highest cemetery...
01/20/2005


Parking Lot Dig Reveals Arm Bones, Coffins
The discovery of the remains will most likely end the county's plan to sell the property and develop it...
01/20/2004


Miners cemetery registered as national landmark in Lake City, TN
01/20/2004


From ID to counselling, a one-stop body shop
Dealing with the dead has now become a corporate venture in Thailand...
01/19/2005


Sidney, MT High School student sees her future in funeral work
Keely McGahan hopes to return to Sidney to fill her father's shoes as Fulkerson's mortician...
01/19/2005


Catholic church considers funeral pop music ban
01/19/2005


Battle continues over pet cemetery
Judge denied a motion seeking to wrest ownership from embattled Chesapeake Wildlife Sanctuary...
01/19/2005


New riverbank rock wall to be built around cemetery
Project at Winnipeg's Elmwood Cemetery will put an end to the constant threat of graves falling into the Red River...
01/19/2005


Council to fight plan for burial ground in Belfast Metropolitan Area
'Super-cemetery' gets big thumbs down
01/19/2005


Somali militias target cemetery
Muslim militias in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, are destroying a colonial Italian cemetery, saying it is "unIslamic"...
01/19/2005


Neighbor upset over burial plots Woodbury's Zoning Commission favors cemetery despite objection
01/19/2005


Funeral home owner fulfilling lifelong aspiration
Denise Williams, the Rochester area's newest funeral home owner, is fulfilling a youthful dream...
01/18/2005


Ex-funeral director indicted
Former Windsor and Camden funeral director Andrew L. Pratt was indicted on a count of grand theft by unauthorized taking...
01/18/2005


Washington residents among the most likely to choose cremation
01/18/2005


Cemetery plans debated in Belfast
Lisburn councillors have strongly criticised controversial Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan proposals for a crematorium and cemetery at Drumbeg...
01/18/2005


Pet Funeral Home
Penny Ellis says her Pet Traditions business can be the place people turn when an animal dies...
01/18/2005


Sticker Shock Stuns Body Donors In Florida
It's actually cheaper to cremate...
01/18/2005


Funeral erupts in brawl in Jersey City, NJ
01/18/2005


Man Arrested In Connection With Cemetery Purse Snatchings in Cleveland
01/18/2005


Creative cremains: Novel ways of memorializing a loved one
01/18/2005


Lex: Funeral companies
For something that is inevitable, death has been surprisingly unprofitable.
01/14/2005


Stewart Enterprises, Inc. Financials
01/14/2005


Undertaker run over by hearse at funeral
01/14/2005


Eternal Reefs Announces 2005 Green Burial Locations
01/14/2005


Cemetery restoration is labor of love for cousins
John Mentzer and Bob Mentzer were doing restoration work in Jacobs Cemetery south of Waynesboro when they uncovered a number of foot stones beneath the ground...
01/14/2005


State Veterans Service spent more than $38 million in area in 2003
01/14/2005


Cemetery Vandals Arrested in West Seneca, NY
01/14/2005


Cemetery upkeep hard for towns
01/14/2005


Form 8-K for Carriage Srvices Inc
01/13/2005


'The grief guy'
Pioneering therapist and local practitioner brings his message of survival to the public...
01/13/2005


Funeral director sentenced
Larry Leveque to answer to 12 charges of breach of trust stemming back to 2002...
01/13/2005


Entrepreneur gives grieving families dynamic memento
01/13/2005


Funeral directors learn valuable lesson: cherish life
01/13/2005


Trial More Likely in Pet Cemetery Dispute
A Circuit Court judge Wednesday denied Dorothy Shapiro's motion for summary judgment in her lawsuit against Chesapeake Wildlife Sanctuary...
01/13/2005


Grave preservation Company gives old cemetery to community
01/13/2005


Restoring Oakdale Cemetery
Vandals had gone on a rampage at Oakdale, knocking over stones...
01/13/2005


Form 10-K for Stewart Enterprises Inc
01/12/2005


Ex-funeral home co-owner charged with embezzlement
Felony charge has been filed against Thomas Burke for alleged theft of $1.3 million...
01/12/2005


Composing comforting words
Jean Van Rensselar, of Waunakee, has started a business writing eulogies...
01/12/2005


Funeral director and F-S students team up to help tsunami victims
01/12/2005


Respect, history important at old cemetery
The issue of the respect of those buried there in one thing, the historical significance of the cemetery and those buried there is another...
01/12/2005


Bay Creek shouldn't move old cemetery
Bay Creek developers want to just change everything about the Eastern Shore...
01/12/2005


Jackson considers battle flag at cemetery
A Civil War heritage group has asked the Jackson Board of Aldermen to allow a Missouri Confederate battle flag to be flown at the city cemetery...
01/12/2005


Operation to remove fallen tree begins
Work to remove the giant beech tree that came down on Ipswich cemetery's war graves was due to get underway today...
01/12/2005


Dancy graves to remain undisturbed
Marker to be placed in area to honor city's first residents...
01/12/2005


Graves to be commemorated with historic marker
Brownsville, Texas Cameron County officials determined today that they will preserve gravesites uncovered at the city's first cemetery...
01/12/2005


Form 8-K for Carriage Services Inc
01/11/2005


Form 8-K for Stewart Enterprises Inc
01/11/2005


Custom Coffins
Merchandise at the Blue Light Coffin Co. is designed for more than one use...
01/11/2005


Crackdown on toxic emissions will push up cremation costs in the UK
01/11/2005


Baby boomers find solace in customized, multimedia funerals
01/11/2005


Charges withdrawn against funeral company in Calgary cremation case
01/11/2005


Jewish Graves Vandalised in Southwest Germany
01/11/2005


Air crash memorial still draws mourners in Monroe, MI
01/11/2005


Group Wants Confederate Flag Down At Public Cemetery in Charlotte, NC
01/11/2005


Woman Accused Of Trying To Dig Up Husband's Grave in Charlotte, NC
Widow banned from a Charlotte cemetery after being accused of paying three people to dig up her husband's grave...
1/11/2005


Hillenbrand Industries Invites You To Join Its Fiscal 2005 1st Qtr Earnings Conference Call
01/10/2005


Pre-funding can be a part of funeral planning
Options can be tailored to individual financial needs...
01/10/2005


Making A Final Impression
Funeral industry caters to baby boomers' last requests...
01/10/2005


Precious little space for the departed in Japan
Innovation is the foundation upon which empires are being built...
01/10/2005


IN funeral homes deal with powerless facilities, closed cemeteries after winter storm
01/10/2005


FL cemeteries still scarred by Charley
Charlotte County doing the best it can to restore them...
01/10/2005


Concord, NH installs columbarium at Blossom Hill Cemetery
Vault could ease city's space crunch...
01/10/2005


PA funeral director helps family locate infant's 1949 gravesite
01/10/2005


Restored NC family cemetery again able to rest in peace
01/10/2005


NC volunteers revitalizing forgotten Jackson cemetery
Years-long effort to save and restore Jackson County Cemetery...
01/10/2005


Corps Right To Delay FL Vets Cemetery
Agencies are following the law...
01/07/2005


Tri-State Crematory operator appears in TN for sentencing
01/07/2005


Cemetery sales offenses now ticketable in Canada
For violating parts of the the Cemeteries Act...
01/07/2005


Johnny Ramone to be honored at LA's Hollywood Forever Cemetery
01/07/2005


San Bernadino's Hillside Memorial Park cell tower plans meet no resistance
01/07/2005


Paperwork stopped burial of homeless woman
Cook County's procedure for burying the indigent wasn't followed...
01/07/2005


Some believe death can be put on hold
Historically more deaths in January nationwide...
01/07/2005


UK memorial gardens planned
Offering alternative to large headstones...
01/07/2005


"Cemeteries have become an easy target for thieves"
01/07/2005


Funeral businesses respond to cremation trends
Adjusting their traditional ways...
01/06/2005


Swedes Bring Home Tsunami Dead And Millions of Europeans Fall Silent
Sweden has suffered the most losses among European countries...
01/06/2005


Adding a more personal touch
UK cemeteries could soon have separate areas for people who want to personalize graves...
01/06/2005


$1.5m tomb with a view at NY's Blue-Sky Mausoleum
Forest Lawn Cemetery has constructed the mausoleum from Frank Lloyd Wright's design...
01/06/2005


McLennan County, TX Group Searching For Lost Cemeteries
01/06/2005


Monroe County, FL inmates to help care for city cemetery
01/06/2005


Concerns Delay FL Veterans Cemetery Construction
Blamed on the summer's four hurricanes and wetlands site...
01/06/2005


Grave's solar lights battle goes global
Father's plight picked up by Canadian Web site for the bereaved...
01/06/2005


Grave undertakings: Could take five years to return Oldham's cemeteries to orderly state
Following 2003 UK health and safety headstone ruling...
01/06/2005


'Shortage Of Belfast Graves Is Not Our Problem'
Proposed cemetery and crematorium met with unanimous dissent...
01/06/2005


Form 8-K for Rock of Ages Corp
01/05/2005


Kennebec jury indicts former funeral director on one count of theft by unauthorized taking
01/05/2005


History, future collide at historic cemetery
Some of the Shore's prized historic assets are literally staring down bulldozers...
01/05/2005


Blue cars offer a unique service
The new deep blue hearse and limousine is intended to provide a brand new image for Midlands Co-operative Funeral Service...
01/05/2005


Burial sites located with dowsing rods
A South Texas woman has been helping locate lost, unmarked graves — using the same folk technique used to find water wells...
01/05/2005


Erie, PA funeral home recovering from fire
The Burton Funeral Home and Crematory in Erie is open for business this morning, even though a fire in its crematory chimney forced mourners into the streets yesterday...
01/05/2005


Former Cemetery To Be Checked For Forgotten Burials in Portland
After Multnomah County paved over part of Portland's historic Lone Fir Cemetery in the 1940s, officials thought they had moved all of the graves of the Chinese buried there...
01/05/2005


Anger over graveyard plans
Residents of a picturesque County Antrim village are angry at plans to build a new graveyard on their doorstep... 01/05/2005


Construction of Palm Beach veterans cemetery delayed
01/05/2005


Grave theft is a mystery A family is outraged that the gravestone of a loved one has gone missing from a Weston cemetery...
01/05/2005


Suspect faces rap in graveside ripoff
Charged yesterday with stealing purses out of a car parked in a cemetery while mourners attended a graveside service in Peabody...
01/05/2005


Matthews Announces 1st Qtr Earnings Release and Conference Call Schedule
01/04/2005


Years of 'corpse meditation' now serving monks well
Performing rites, cremations and after-death chants for Tsunami victims...
01/04/2005


Dying in style
Exclusive new gated cemetery is ['so Boca, it's unbelievable'...
01/04/2005


New Castle casket store marks a change in funeral industry
Grieving families now have a choice...
01/04/2005


Pooch provides comfort at PA funeral home
Owner got the idea after attending a funeral directors convention...
01/04/2005


Walk to benefit Des Moines' historic Woodland Cemetery
01/04/2005


Grieving mother is now a victim of a cemetery crime
Teens behind bars for car break-ins...
01/04/2005


Why vets' families shun deal mystifies MI mausoleum operator
Says funeral directors are reluctant to suggest rival service...
01/04/2005


Cost of cemetery lots may triple in Newton, NC
01/04/2005


Alderwoods Buries Stiff Competition
01/03/2005


Stewart Enterprises Files SEC Form 8-K, Entry Material Agreement
01/03/2005


Hillenbrand Financials
01/03/2005


SCI Subsidiary Active in Tsunami Disaster Recovery
Disaster relief subsidiary, Kenyon International Emergency Services, dispatched mobile mortuary...
01/03/2005


300 mislabeled bodies from tsunami disaster to be exhumed in Thailand
In a disaster of this magnitude, confusion is bound to happen...
01/03/2005


Coffin Break
Busting Oklahoma's casket cartel would cut the cost of dying...
01/03/2005


Veterans' officials expect to begin burials in May at Great Lakes National Cemetery
01/03/2005


At life's end, many immigrants make final journey home
Mexican immigrants make up the majority of repatriated bodies...
01/03/2005


Nicaragua Honors Lost Mosquito Coast Graveyard
Seeking to reclaim the ghost town's four cemeteries from the jungle...
01/03/2005


Istanbul's Vanished City of the Dead: The Grand Champs des Morts
01/03/2005


In Argentina, angry families bury victims of nightclub fire
182 youngsters killed in blaze...
01/03/2005


Even loved ones gone are included in holiday celebrations
12/23/2004


York, PA's Prospect Hill and Greenmount cemeteries offer holiday grief booklet
12/23/2004


Great Lakes Mortuary Services looks to Clinton, MS site
Residents have questions...
12/23/2004


117-year-old ND church could become cemetery chapel
Parishioners want to move it to the Sunset Memorial Gardens...
12/23/2004


Funeral homes ease pain over holidays
Memorial programs offer chance to find solace...
12/23/2004


Helping Children to Cope with Grief
12/23/2004


Stakeout nets Pompano Beach cemetery car burglars
Repeatedly preyed upon visitors to Forest Lawn Cemetery...
12/23/2004


Cost of dying soars 55% in Halton Hills next year
12/23/2004


Relatives have say in future of Australia's Glenmorus Gardens
12/23/2004


Cremation Society of Minnesota buys SCI's properties
SCI withdrew from Duluth-area funeral scene...
12/22/2004


Canada's Arbor Memorial 4th Qtr revenue up 14%
Owns 41 cemeteries, 87 funeral homes and related businesses...
12/22/2004


Grief still there in season of joy
Tips to make it through the holidays...
12/22/2004


Suburban Chicago's Rockford Diocese plans cemetery
12/22/2004


Dedicate a light to departed loved one in Flagstaff
18th annual Light-A-Life Holiday Memorial project...
12/22/2004


Office manager thrives on challenges
No day is ever 'routine' at funeral home...
12/22/2004


Approval given for first Australian Catholic crematorium
To be built at the Catholic Cemetery at Rookwood...
12/22/2004


No federal charges against accused grave robber
Six-year statute of limitations had passed...
12/22/2004


IL Family: Mount Glenwood botched baby's burial
Just one among litany of complaints about cemetery's conduct...
12/22/2004


Service Corporation International Announces Settlement of T. Rowe Price Lawsuit
12/21/2004


Holiday grief can't be ignored
Emotional impact can seem doubly devastating...
12/21/2004


Odds improve for Bucksto vets cemetery in southeastern PA
12/21/2004


May You Rest in Space
Cremated human remains launched into orbit around Earth...
12/21/2004


IA's Heartland Cremation and Burial Society has a different outlook on the funeral home business
12/21/2004


Friends of Geer Cemetery show off newly cleared Durham, NC graveyard
12/21/2004


Tax break for Malaysian cemeteries
All non-profit public cemeteries will be exempt...
12/21/2004


Russian Chief Rabbi Calls for Cemetery Protection
Desecrations have become a "nationwide issue"...
12/21/2004


TN Man Says Arlington Homes and Cemetery Has Changed, He Wants His Money Back
12/21/2004


Stewart Enterprises Names Ashton Ryan to Board of Directors
12/20/2004


Matthew's International Financials
12/20/2004


UT cemetery alight with symbols of love
Luminaries have become a Christmas tradition...
12/20/2004


The privacy of grief
There is a time to respect private grief...
12/20/2004


ND's Williams County Genealogical Society publishes gravesite directory
12/20/2004


Cemetery angels offer TX photographer serenity
Wonder if searching for calmness...
12/20/2004


PA's Susquehanna University offers course on dying
Society has long been squeamish about the subject of death...
12/20/2004


Bali: Where time to die is time to celebrate
Tourists can witness a cremation ceremony celebrated with pageantry and a parade...
12/20/2004


Cemeteries: prime site for thieves
Holiday mementos stolen soon after their placement...
12/20/2004


SCI Arizona Funeral Services Inc accused of mixing up grave
Siblings file suit...
12/20/2004


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Stewart Enterprises Swings to 4Q Profit
12/17/2004


Form 8-K for Stewart Enterprises Inc
12/17/2004


Swedberg-Taylor and Scalzo funeral homes are united under one owner
12/17/2004


Company offers gem of way to keep loved ones near
12/17/2004


Reminders of love cast forever in stone
Newark artisan's stained-glass creations evolve...
12/17/2004


Grave concerns for cemetery thugs
Police are powerless to do any more to prevent youths wrecking Preston cemetery...
12/17/2004


Grave worry
The grounds of the San Jose Cemetery get harder to access each year...
12/17/2004


Grave site thefts an act of terrorism
12/17/2004


New sign to mark historic cemetery in Newport
12/17/2004


Grave mistake at Bluff City
Staffing cutbacks preceded a clerical error that led to a man being buried in the wrong plot...
12/17/2004


'I was sick to my stomach': Another purse theft reported at cemetery in Lorain
12/17/2004


Stewart Enterprises Reports Growth in Earnings Per Share for Fiscal Year 2004
Forecasts Growth for Fiscal Year 2005...
12/16/2004


Festival of Lights will illuminate MD's Rest Haven Cemetery
Live bagpipe music will echo across grounds glowing with 8,000 luminaries...
12/16/2004


Worldwide Candle Lighting in Memory of Children Unites Bereavement World
12/16/2004


Mortuary work with a mix of pride, empathy
Finds a lifelong calling, community and family...
12/16/2004


Sharing sorrows
More looking to Web to help cope with death...
12/16/2004


The season of coping
Holidays tough for those dealing with a loss...
12/16/2004


Prehistoric cemeteries found at Beliyakande hill in Sri Lanka
12/16/2004


Stones are to be 'topple tested' at UK churchyard
12/16/2004


Rolling Over in Their Graves
Knoxville, TN Native American burial ground up for development...
12/16/2004


Cops Find 610 Pounds of Pot in Coffins During Routine Traffic Stop
12/16/2004


Controversy over planned crematorium cost increase
Big impact on bereaved families in one of the poorest counties of Wales...
12/16/2004


Carriage Services Announces Senior Management Promotions
12/15/2004


Court to decide burial insurance flap in LA
12/15/2004


Family's fury over ashes fiasco
A WAR veteran's ashes were disposed of by a crematorium weeks before they were due to be scattered by his family...
12/15/2004


Holiday Decorations Stolen From Cemetery in WA
12/15/2004


Genesee town pushes for veterans cemetery
Cemetery that would serve all of Western New York...
12/15/2004


Grand Ayatollah's mausoleum a safe place for the homeless in Tehran
12/15/2004


Defunct Baptist Foundation selling burial plots in AZ
12/15/2004


Memorializing loved ones via the Internet takes hold
12/15/2004


Flawed burial claimed in NC suit
Two sisters contend that the interment of their mother was improperly handled...
12/15/2004


Shiite Muslims in Pakistan use online service to mourn dead relatives
12/15/2004


Cemetery committee clears overgrowth in Harrington, DE
12/15/2004


Matthews Files SEC Form 10-K, Annual Report
12/14/2004


Send Letters and Email Loved Ones After You Pass Away
New service called Letters From Beyond...
12/14/2004


LA court to decide burial insurance flap
Senator warns funeral homes to honor the policies' described benefits while the law is in limbo...
12/14/2004


Walker Financial Introduces Kwicien as the First Member of Its Advisory Board
Marketer of funeral advisory, funding and prearrangement services...
12/14/2004


Grieving parents secure the service of a kindly angel
Phoenix Angel of Hope monument dedicated...
12/14/2004


Chinese pilgrims ready for festival
Dongzhi Festival will witness largest number of people traveling to cemeteries...
12/14/2004


Family sues Durham, NC cemetery, manager
Mishandling burial and allowing body fluids to leak from a crypt...
12/14/2004


Removal of cemetery decorations upsets relatives in Waltham, MA
Not the work of heartless vandals, but of the city's Cemetery Commission...
12/14/2004


Construction to begin on the Georgia National Cemetery in Sutallee
12/13/2004


Elm Grove Cemetery Offers History Lesson On Mystic, CT
One of America's most beautiful cemeteries...
12/13/2004


Carpets of comfort
Grave blankets have a distinctly regional appeal...
12/13/2004


Marquette's Park Cemetery grotto gives burial option: Resting place
Columbarium bridges gap between traditional burial and cremation...
12/13/2004


Mortuary science students learn what it takes to be funeral directors
12/13/2004


Amigone Funeral Home says keeping a sense of compassion is crucial to success
NY's largest privately owned funeral home business...
12/13/2004


Volunteers lay 1800 wreaths on soldiers' graves at Togus National Cemetery
Glimpse of how Arlington National Cemetery looks this time of year...
12/13/2004


Old Naco, AZ graves may be in danger
Cemeteries that are on private land and abandoned are vulnerable to development...
12/13/2004


VT and NH towns see cemeteries running out of room to grow
12/13/2004


Sacred Ground: Mill Valley eco-friendly cemetery draws 85 to public event
12/13/2004


Site selection near for FL vets cemetery
Administration has narrowed list to four sites...
12/10/2004


Women bring twist to tradition
See focus of funeral industry as celebrating life...
12/10/2004


CA's Piece Brothers Stetler Mortuary changes name and service specialty
New emphasis on service excellence for Hispanic population...
12/10/2004


IL woman takes cemetery to heart
President of the Prairie Rest Ladies Cemetery Association...
12/10/2004


Pigo Catholic Cemetery mausoleum to be consecrated in Anigua, Guam
Mausoleum needed because cemetery was getting crowded...
12/10/2004


Future of Canadian cemetery remains undecided
Ancaster plans for the future of a 200-year-old lost cemetery...
12/10/2004


Dunedin funeral lawsuits settled
Ends Tampa Bay's bizarre case of alleged funeral-industry misconduct...
12/10/2004


Conflict of interest charge is probed
Woodbury, CT resident contests cemetery's zoning...
12/10/2004


Vandals Damage, Steal MD Family Cemetery's Headstones
Financial Damage Estimated At $5,000...
12/10/2004


MI families hit with unexpected fees at Hillcrest Cemetery
At issue is whether families' agreements pre-date price change...
12/10/2004


CA's Merced Cemetery District offers vandalism spree reward
Most of the damaged headstones are dated between 1880 and 1905...
12/10/2004


Hill-Rom Expands Art of Care(TM) Healthcare Furniture Line
12/09/2004


Funeral operator admits $403,000 fraud
A Unionville, Mo., funeral operator admitted that he fraudulently filed insurance claims...
12/09/2004


Former Texas funeral director will pay $19,000 for selling without license
12/09/2004


Richard Burke, a former funeral director at Shackelford Funeral Home, has been sentenced to 24-months and ordered to pay restitution for bank fraud and mail fraud.
12/09/2004


Funeral Director Paul Baue holds a sample LifeGem diamond
12/09/2004


Mortuary askes Curry county to pay for indigent burials
12/09/2004


United Priority Distributors, a leading cremation urn and keepsake wholesale distributor has recently acquired a patent pending on the Rosary Keepsake Urn.
12/09/2004


Heber city council to consider new cemetery rules
12/09/2004


Owner cuts off relatives from visiting cemetery on private land
12/09/2004


Men arrested for Maquoketa cemetery vandalism
12/09/2004


Hillenbrand files SEC form 10-K, annual report
12/08/2004


Cemeteries brace for wave of military veteran deaths
National system will boost its capacity by 85% this decade...
12/08/2004


Memorial makers bungle Burma in IL's WWII Memorial
Spelling of 'Berma' to be fixed in spring...
12/08/2004


Asheville Woman Combines Fiber Art with Thoughtful Remembrance
Honor loved ones through hand woven Memorial Comforters...
12/08/2004


Dealing with grief
Five basic steps of grief...
12/08/2004


Chapel Hill, NC OKs $220,000 in repairs to Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
12/08/2004


War grave visits to be made easier for UK families
Government will fund cost of visit to the grave of a husband or wife who fell on military service overseas...
12/08/2004


Muslims mourn loved ones online
Pakistan's Wadi-a-Hussain is among the first virtual graveyards used by Muslims...
12/08/2004


FL's Hollywood Cemetery crackdown irritates families
Memorabilia prohibited at the 134-year-old cemetery...
12/08/2004


Funeral etiquette, or lack thereof
12/08/2004


Carriage Services Inc. Files SEC Form 8-K, Regulation FD Disclosure, Financial Statements and Exhibits
12/07/2004


Stewart Enterprises, Inc. Q4 2004 Conference Call Invitation
12/07/2004


Alderwoods announces amendment of credit facility and redemption of notes
12/07/2004


Outlook Group Records Record Sales Year
12/07/2004


Worldwide Candle Lighting December 12 Remembers All Children Who have Died
Bereaved parents have a day all their own...
12/07/2004


Merrill-Carleton Funeral Home owner remembered for professionalism in 50 year funeral career
12/07/2004


CA lottery-winning couple to use money for activism
Started the Garden of Angels cemetery for unidentified and abandoned infants...
12/07/2004


Two deer shot on property of PA's Queen of Heaven Cemetery
12/07/2004


Neglected FL cemeteries getting someone's attention
Bacon has spent 20 years trying to bring dignity to neglected cemeteries...
12/07/2004


19 plots in Machpelah Cemetery vandalized
Vandalism at the 104-year-old MS cemetery is unusual...
12/07/2004


Touch-screen booths provide information at veterans cemeteries
Devices installed in 11 cemeteries in eight states...
12/06/2004


Funeral food may get new life in CT
Morticians divided on proposal to lift ban on refreshments at wakes...
12/06/2004


A tomb with a view: Frank Lloyd Wright's Blue Sky Mausoleum
Wealthy Americans can be buried in one of the last of his works to be completed...
12/06/2004


Gone, but not forgotten
TSA, funeral homes trying to please passengers carrying ashes onto planes...
12/06/2004


Jewelry, personal urns let bereaved keep part of their loved ones close
12/06/2004


More choosing ashes than dust in Kitsap County, WA
Nearly 70 percent of residents pick cremation over burial...
12/06/2004


Lost-cemetery research daunting, but rewarding in Fredericksburg, VA
12/06/2004


Relatives of WWII soldier grateful to Dutch grave adopters
12/06/2004


Volunteers keep stones gleaming in NY's West Delhi Cemetery
12/06/2004


Aussie vertical burials almost a reality near Camperdown
Bodies would be buried in pre-drilled vertical holes...
12/06/2004


Jamaican operators of established funeral homes want the state to set industry guidelines
Rid it of 'suitcase undertakers' who now prey on grieving relatives...
12/06/2004


Stewart Enterprises Names New CFO
12/03/2004


Hillenbrand Industries Announces 1st Qtr 2005 Dividend
12/03/2004


Carriage Services Updates Company & Investment Profile
12/03/2004


Hill-Rom Announces Agreement with BG North America
12/03/2004


IL will dedicate its first statewide WWII memorial at Springfield's Oak Ridge Cemetery
12/03/2004


IN's Solan-Pruzin Funeral Home keeps transporting remains simple
Offers service for free...
12/03/2004


Boomers go overboard with loved ones' remains
Stylish to turn cremated remains into unusual items...
12/03/2004


IA issues cease order against Charles City funeral home
Selling preneed funeral services without a license...
12/03/2004


Busted Burials at Topeka's West Lawn Memorial Gardens
Families want refunds from Mike Graham and Associates for nonexistent mausoleum...
12/03/2004


IA officials order Meyer Brothers Funeral Homes to change cremation practices
12/03/2004


Batesville Introduces Designer Cremation Jewelry
12/02/2004


Portland ceremony will help families grieve the loss of a child
Part of a 24-hour Worldwide Candle Lighting ceremony...
12/02/2004


Life and Death: Community connection critical in funeral biz
12/02/2004


ID veterans find final homes at new cemetery
12/02/2004


Completing life's circle
Trends change in the funeral business...
12/02/2004


CA's Skillin-Carroll Mortuaries enhance services, gain access to national network
12/02/2004


At the final resting place
Putting bodies in their final resting place...
12/02/2004


AZ woman saves history in cemeteries
Documents the stories gravestones tell...
12/02/2004


Officials investigate Sioux City crematory
Former employees allege inappropriate cremation practices...
12/02/2004


Shanghai set to drastically cut lease of cemeteries
Current 70-year leases cut to 30 to save land...
12/02/2004


The day of death
Funerals are a major event in a family's life...
12/01/2004


AL's American Village at Montevallo to be studied for veterans cemetery site
12/01/2004


PA Veterans' cemetery to be named after region
One of six new federal cemeteries to be built to meet veterans' needs...
12/01/2004


Grave undertaking to keep the spirit of Christmas alive!
Funeral home throwing Christmas bash for charity...
12/01/2004


The bearers of bad news
How do you tell somebody their loved one is dead...
12/01/2004


Family sues Transportation Security Administration over spilled ashes at SeaTac airport
Screeners spilled ashes from sealed plastic urn as they searched backpack...
12/01/2004


African family turns farm into graveyard for the landless
Donating graves free of charge...
12/01/2004


'Give us more room to offer our tribute'
Less space for tributes to cremated in UK...
12/01/2004


The dead have no space to rest in India
12/01/2004


Constitutionally of funeral insurance law debated in court
11/30/2004


VA Names New National Cemetery Near Pittsburgh
11/30/2004


FL Maintains Hundreds Of Memorials on Roadsides
Installed at the request of relatives or friends of someone who died in a crash...
11/30/2004


Dutch couple adopt grave of U.S. soldier buried in the Margraten Cemetery
11/30/2004


Scandinavian pioneers rest on ND hilltop
Once billed as the smallest cemetery in the world...
11/30/2004


KY's Linden Grove Cemetery to get new fence
State, city chip in $105,000...
11/30/2004


Vandals Strike West Seneca, NY's Fourteen Holy Helpers Cemetery
11/30/2004


Two accused of being grave robbers in KY
Stole 500 brass vases and sold them for scrap...
11/30/2004


NJ legislation would preserve historic graves
Historical markers, plaques and public awareness campaign among bill's proposals...
11/29/2004


TV special explores colorful history of Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery
11/29/2004


IL funding allows Oak Ridge Cemetery to digitize handwritten ledgers
Burial records will be accessible online...
11/29/2004


Anything goes for tombstones in CA's National City pioneer cemetery
Freedom to honor loved ones however families please...
11/29/2004


CA widow wins suit in cremation fraud
Business illegally sold bodies to researchers...
11/29/2004


Court will follow the money in RightStar Hawaii Management Inc. case
May end up being one of the state's biggest business scandals...
11/29/2004


Mom turns son in for vandalism in OH cemetery
11/29/2004


Grave decisions in PA
Cemeteries battling higher maintenance costs...
11/29/2004


Casualties of Time: RI's Hope Valley Cemetery Shows Its Age
Current state of the cemetery and its 200-year history...
11/29/2004


New Plan for Israel's Mt. of Olives Cemetery
Remedy poor condition of the ancient cemetery...
11/29/2004


Carriage Services Inc Financials
11/24/2004


Stewart Enterprises Files SEC Form 8-K
11/24/2004


Stewart Enterprises Announces Appearance at Merrill Lynch Conference
11/24/2004


Fending Off McDeath
Fort Worth funeral home owners aren't giving in to oft-sued giant SCI...
11/24/2004


Archaeologist says some old AR cemeteries are in grave danger
11/24/2004


Together at last
26 years later, wife's lost ashes interned...
12/24/2004


UK Bronze Age Site Discovered at Gas Company Dig
29 cremations pits date back to between 2000BC and 1500BC...
11/24/2004


Ming Dynasty coffin uncovered
Ancient tomb uncovered by construction workers...
11/24/2004


Breaking News: Sen. Dodd reintroduces federal death care legislation
11/23/2004


Stewart Enterprises Refinances Senior Secured Credit Facility
11/23/2004


Attorneys To Receive About Quarter Of $100 Million Menorah Gardens Deal
11/23/2004


Remains Not Cremated Individually at SCI's Olinger Hampden Mortuary
Logs appear to indicate about three dozen simultaneous cremations...
11/23/2004


Seattle-based People's Memorial Association offers guidance on funeral prices
11/23/2004


East Texas Still Has Shot At Veterans Cemetery
11/23/2004


Chapel Hill marker identifies slave burial sites
Contributed to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's growth...
11/23/2004


Mayersville, MS farmer wants cemetery protected
Historical significance of blacks and whites buried together...
11/23/2004


Graceland Cemetery lost ashes lawsuit settled in Valparaiso
Missing ashes and urn never found...
11/23/2004


Muslim Cemetery Request Generates Local Opposition in Memphis
And some anti-Muslim views...
11/23/2004


Teenagers Given Suspended Sentence for Defiling Central Russian Jewish Cemetery
11/23/2004


The Changing Face of Funerals
11/22/2004


Thousands dedicate memorial for Laci Peterson, son
11/22/2004


Southwest Missouri's Tree of Memories provides opportunity to honor loved ones
11/22/2004


Ashes to ashes above the clouds
High-pressure system propels cremated ashes from aircraft...
11/22/2004


New cemetery fills need in Wake County, NC
Wake Memorial promises to ease shortage of burial space...
11/22/2004


Oakwood Cemetery recognized as a historic Texas cemetery
11/22/2004


Group Rallies Around Confederate Flag At Charlotte, NC Cemetery
Critics call it a symbol of hate and want it lowered or removed...
11/22/2004


Aussie masons fear being cut out of market with new laws
Masons' association presses for industry group to resolve disputes...
11/22/2004


Hillenbrand Files SEC Form 8-K, Results of Operations, Financial Statements and Exhibits
11/19/2004


Alderwoods Closes Green Funeral Homes in WA
Selling or closing locations considered to be underperforming or not fitting overall strategy...
11/19/2004


New law worries Canadian funeral homes
Independents say they can't compete against cemetery chains...
11/19/2004


Should Wisconsin regulate burials on private property?
State asked to forbid human burials anywhere but in an approved cemetery...
11/19/2004


New cemetery opens in Cary, NC
First perpetual care cemetery in Wake County since the 1950s...
11/19/2004


Victims' relatives to speak out as Tri-State Crematory case ends
11/19/2004


New Hmong funeral home in St. Paul first of its kind in the country
Designed and built solely for Hmong burial services...
11/19/2004


US: National Poll Shows Adults Want Personalized Funerals
11/19/2004


A Tough Trick For Cemeteries To Balance Sentiment, Sanitation
Impulse to leave articles for the dead is an ancient one...
11/19/2004


NJ man faces cemetery theft charges
Tried stealing over $500 worth of flowers, plants and flags from graves...
11/19/2004


Matthews Files SEC Form 8-K, Results of Operations
11/18/2004


Alderwoods Group Widens 3rd Qtr Loss to $13.4M
11/18/2004


StoneMor Partners L.P. Earnings Conference Call Replay
11/18/2004


A museum of cemetery styles in MA
11/18/2004


Motive Elusive in GA Crematory Case
Victims' relatives are likely to be left wondering why...
11/18/2004


Big-Box Wholesaling
Industries' big players moving in on extra large caskets...
11/18/2004


Burial at Arlington National Cemetery An Honor Richly Deserved
Full military honors funeral a dignified and moving occasion...
11/18/2004


Johnston, IA cemetery cleanup request denied
Officials say city can't afford repairs...
11/18/2004


Cleanup starts this week on 2 historically black cemeteries in Greenwood, MS
11/18/2004


Arlington, MA running out of cemetery space
Space crunch forces town to adopt strict burial guidelines...
11/18/2004


Low Death Rate Cuts Coffin Maker Outlook
11/17/2004


Matthews International Announces Earnings for Fiscal 2004
11/17/2004


Lake Township may limit cemetery decor
The Lake Township trustees and cemetery sexton have proposed tighter restrictions on decorations at the township cemetery...
11/17/2004


17-year-old pleads guilty in Chico Cemetery vandalism
11/17/2004


Family business alive and well
In 110th year, Whittier funeral parlor adjusting with times...
11/17/2004


Eastlawn Memory Gardens in Brunswick will begin fall cleanup today.
11/17/2004


Guilty plea is little solace to victims of cremation scam
11/17/2004


Family Takes Action Against Cemetery Damage
A family who has struggled with repeated damage at a cemetery grave site has taken matters into their own hands...
11/17/2004


Hillenbrand Industries Posts 4th Qtr Profit
Total Revenue Climbs to $474 Million...
11/16/2004


Happier endings
Personalizing death's details is the latest fad in funerals...
11/16/2004


Labor of love finished at Mount Pleasant Long's Cemetery
11/16/2004


Etched in stone
Monument expresses forever who you are, what you cherished...
11/16/2004


"Forgotten Faces - A Window Into Our Immigrant Past"
Historical significance of photo-ceramic memorial portraits on tombstones...
11/16/2004


Grave dilemma: Cemetery preservation is a hot topic in Boone County, KY
11/16/2004


Hit-and-run crash damages Point Marion, PA cemetery
11/16/2004


Suffolk Funeral Directors Sentenced to Prison
Judge suspends all but three months...
11/16/2004


Hillenbrand Invites You to Join Its Annual Investors Conference Web Cast
11/15/2004


Form 10-Q for Carriage Services
11/15/2004


StoneMor Partners L.P. Announces 3rd Qtr Results
11/15/2004


Cremation: Bradenton, FL funeral homes meet growing demand with more options
11/15/2004


Prepaid funerals
Preplanning alleviates so many difficult decisions for the family...
11/15/2004


Cemetery symbolizes a new life in Akron, OH
11/15/2004


Preserving the past for the future
Wyoming Cemetery Association wants to inject new life local cemetery...
11/15/2004


IN pioneer cemeteries not getting the respect they deserve
195 listed on an endangered "hall of shame..."
11/15/2004


Funeral firm's $20m questioned
State sues RightStar Hawaii Management Inc. to account for money collected for funeral plans...
11/15/2004


Skeletons in Australian funeral industry closet
"Backyard" operators have crept into the industry...
11/15/2004


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AR's Fort Smith To Expand Burial Space For Veterans
11/12/2004


Traditional funerals are six feet under
People embracing the notion of honouring a person for who they were in life...
11/12/2004


Students linking headstones to graves at Birmingham's Greenwood Cemetery
11/12/2004


Chicago's Homewood Memorial Gardens still eyeing property for expansion plan
11/12/2004


Drive to restore Medesto, CA cemeteries started
11/12/2004


Prayers for the dearly departed as Ramadhan comes to an end
11/12/2004


SC slave cemetery will get historic marker
11/12/2004


Helena, MT workers unearth old graves
Once part of an old Catholic cemetery...
11/12/2004


CO Computer Glitch Delays State Burial Payments
11/12/2004


SCI Announces Increase in Its Share Repurchase Program
11/11/2004


Funeral ads draw scrutiny
Veterans commission says aggressive marketing can be misleading...
11/11/2004


Day of the Dead signifies differences in mourning
11/11/2004


Veteran's Day Observance has Rich History, Meaning
11/11/2004


Tilton named president of the NH Veterans Cemetery Association
11/11/2004


40 years of gracefully coping with death
Dery has always taken the high road in his funeral home business...
11/11/2004


IL settler finally gets his 140-year-old tombstone back
Officials hope the return will inspire more respect for the dead...
11/11/2004


LA shuts Leesville mortuary; owner accused of stealing premiums
11/11/2004


Zimbabwean urban poor take to farming cemetery plots
11/11/2004


Form 8-K for Rock Of Ages Corp
11/10/2004


Santa Fe National Cemetery adds burial vault
11/10/2004


Memories provide solace for those left to grieve
11/10/2004


First wooden coffin of 13th dynasty unearthed in Luxor
11/10/2004


LA judge orders review of Shreveport cemetery issue
Historic black burial grounds in legal limbo...
11/10/2004


CO benefits system refuses to fund burials
11/10/2004


Teen girls arrested in IA gravestone vandalism
Game escalated to some of the worst vandalism ever seen in the county...
11/10/2004


Resting Your Dead in City Cemeteries
Not African culture to bury dead in city cemeteries...
11/10/2004


Chennai Christians mull cremation in India
Cremation proposed in view of cemetery space crunch...
11/10/2004


Canadian cemetery space situation is grave
Immediate approval to build columbarium...
11/10/2004


Dignity Lifts Profits Despite Lower Death Rate
On track to meet full year forecasts...
11/09/2004


Alternative funerals growing in number as cremations rise
11/09/2004


'Stones and Bones' tells New England cemeteries' stories
11/09/2004


Let's not forget soldiers' graves
We all want to be remembered when we die...
11/09/2004


Cloquet, MN funeral homes consolidate
11/09/2004


Another Notable In Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery
11/09/2004


'Six Feet Under' Heading to the Cemetery
11/09/2004


Bristol company charged with removing unmarked gravestones from a 19th-century cemetery
11/09/2004


OH women's purses reportedly stolen while they visited graves of loved ones
11/09/2004


Montreal's Notre Dame des Neiges cemetery denies burial to common-law couple
11/09/2004


SCI Reports 3rd Qtr 2004 Earnings
11/08/20004


StoneMor Partners LP Gains in Market Debut
11/08/2004


Overhauling Final Rites
Funeral homes accommodate changing tastes among clientele...
11/08/2004


Arlington last stop for military's honored dead
Most prominent of the more than 100 national cemeteries...
11/08/2004


Funeral directors learn to have more flexibility
There's no such thing as a traditional funeral anymore...
11/08/2004


Small-town undertaker serves the living and the dead in MT
11/08/2004


Long gone, not forgotten in Lexington, KY
Graves of 19th century veterans get markers...
11/08/2004


Loggers uncover Caddo Parish, LA's oldest cemetery
Working to protect the area from long-term destruction...
11/08/2004


More Drivers Crashing The Funeral Procession
Funeral homes looking at alternatives to traditional procession...
11/08/2004


NJ puts 3 funeral homes on probation
Licenses suspended for a period of 15 months...
11/08/2004


Funeral director scams $3M with fake death certificates in Brooklyn
11/05/2004


Circling the Hearses
Texas State funeral regulators are dancing to the undertakers' tune and that's bad news for consumers...
11/05/2004


Research and Markets: Examination Of The Volume and Value of The UK Funeral Services Market Between 2000-2009
11/05/2004


Company offers final deep-sea burial
11/05/2004


Investigation finds remains stolen, replaced in Hong Kong cemeteries
People have been digging up remains from graves to make room for their own departed loved ones...
11/05/2004


Employees, clients say cemetery ownership lax at Lawrence Memorial Park Cemetery
The problems are getting progressively worse over time...
11/05/2004


Vandals deface Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg, France
11/05/2004


Alderwoods Group sets date of third quarter fiscal 2004 earnings release and conference call
11/04/2004


Funeral Director Pleads Guilty To Theft in SD
11/04/2004


Grave Concern
Ministers in Larne have warned that time is short in the quest for new cemetery provision in the town...
11/04/2004


Funeral home business opens cremation services venture
The Cornerstone Cremation Society has opened for business in Wichita...
11/04/2004


Cost of dying, policing going up in Emo
Emo council decided to raise the rates for interment and grave maintenance at the township's cemetery...
11/04/2004


Grave concern could lift 18 and Vine's spirit
The American Jazz Museum wants to move Charlie Parker's grave to 18th and Vine...
11/04/2004


Wongan cemetery upgrade project gets underway in Australia
11/04/2004


Vandal busted
Police say they've arrested a man who went on a rampage of vandalism at historic Oakdale Cemetery. 11/04/2004


Medal of Honor graves get special markers at Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery
11/03/2004


Council receptive to establishing scattering gardens at East Linwood Cemetery
IL scattering gardens are legal effective Jan. 1, 2005...
11/03/2004


Planning your own funeral saves loved ones stress, money
11/03/2004


CA's Watsonville High students make offerings for the Day of the Dead
Spanish classes commemorated in style...
11/03/2004


Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans Worldwide Celebrate "All Saints' Day"
Celebrations to honor the departed...
11/03/2004


A different view of death
Dia de los Muertos event at CA's Sonoma Valley Museum of Art...
11/03/2004


Helping out is no sweat for IL cemetery
Sweaters for veterans project under way at Elmwood Cemetery and Mausoleum...
11/03/2004


Family takes love of Red Sox to the grave
Received permission to fly Red Sox banner over grave following World Series win...
11/03/2004


LexisNexis programmers hold funerals for old code
Cemetery is a quirky tradition...
11/03/2004


Nelson Mandela metropolis facing grave crisis
Dire land shortage...
11/03/2004


SCI Receives Court Approval for FL Class-Action Settlement Agreement
11/02/2004


Rock of Ages Reports Improved 3rd Qtr Results
11/02/2004


StoneMor Partners L.P. Confirms Its Intention to Pay Initial Quarterly Distribution
11/02/2004


$6.14 million grant to upgrade NJ veterans cemetery
11/02/2004


No longer Aunt Martha's funeral
Funerals changing to reflect boomer tastes...
11/02/2004


Dia de los Muertos losing ground to Halloween
Younger generation embraces Halloween...
11/02/2004


Historic West Chicago cemetery damaged by Halloween prank
11/02/2004


In death as in life...
Filipino cemeteries are reminders of economic and cultural differences...
11/02/2004


Veterans cemetery to open in Suffolk, VA
11/01/2004


Preplan final wishes and eliminate stress
11/01/2004


'Day of the Dead' honors ancestors
Mexicans bring holiday north...
11/01/2004


Eulogies: Family and friends have the last word
11/01/2004


Volunteers restore dignity to MA's St. Mary's Cemetery
Hundreds of graves repaired...
11/01/2004


Cemetery rates in Portsmouth, VA prove to be less expensive
Cemeteries filling quickly with non-residents...
11/01/2004


Millions in Europe revere All Saints' Day
Annual mass migration to the graveyard...
11/01/2004


Mayan communities ready for Day of the Dead events
11/01/2004


Businesses flourish in time of remembrance
The dead bring out the best in Filipino entrepreneurs...
11/01/2004


Planning the future of cemeteries and crematoria in New Zealand
11/01/2004


Alderwoods Group Launches Operation Sweaters for Veterans
Clothing Drive Campaign Aims to Collect Thousands of Sweaters for Local War Veterans...
10/29/2004


Form 8-K for Carriage Services Inc
10/29/2004


Hill-Rom Announces Agreement With Span-America
10/29/2004


Funeral Homes Fade
Many of Harlem's small, family-owned funeral homes may soon need undertakers of their own...
10/29/2004


'A Handshake Is Not Enough'
Looking Into The Delicate And Ever Changing Day In The Life Of A Mortician...
10/29/2004


Bargain funerals
New service puts focus on lower prices...
10/29/2004


Local chains welcome competition in WI
The three family-owned chains say they welcome new competition from All Faiths Funeral and Cremation Services...
10/29/2004


Green burial plan
Killearn has been earmarked by Stirling Council's cemeteries service for the area's first woodland cemetery...
10/29/2004


Vandals detained; Eldon City Cemetery headstones restored
10/29/2004


The Gravest Graveyards
What makes a good cemetery?...
10/29/2004


Of ashes, underwires and radioactive colons
Era of heightened security creates new travel problems...
10/28/2004


Woman pays £350 to repair grave
Then discovered it was St Albans District Council which was laying flat the gravestones...
10/28/2004


Woman accused of robbing grave from the Cambria Cemetery
10/28/2004


American Fork Cemetery seeks contributions of trees
10/28/2004


Vandals strike Hospital Road Cemetery again
Cessnock City Council is aware of the problem and will be looking at what can be done to stop it...
10/28/2004


Experts weigh gravity of situation
Rainwater that is absorbed by the soil in Bukit Kiara Muslim Cemetery will flow into Sungai Penchala...
10/28/2004


Nunn Cemetery: All but forgotten historic cemetery being reborn
10/28/2004


Grave insult
Grieving parents were left in tears when a letter from the council described their tribute as a 'mini Blackpool illuminations'...
10/28/2004


Carriage Services Announces Third Quarter Earnings Release and Conference Call Schedule
10/27/2004


Matthews International Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End Earnings Release and Conference Call Schedule
10/27/2004


Rock of Ages To Release Third Quarter Results
10/27/2004


Couple to open haunted house in former funeral home in 2005
There's new life in an old funeral home in Monroe, WI...
10/27/2004


Bradshaw-Carter Memorial & Funeral Services Joins Selected Independent Funeral Homes Professional Association
10/27/2004


Lee County commission approves new $25 fee for cremations
Medical examiner's office to get part of money...
10/27/2004


Court told of graves rampage
The accused admit criminal damage but deny the attack was religiously motivated...
10/27/2004


Feds indict Portland men for cemetery vandalism at the Congregation Shaarie Torah Cemetery
10/27/2004


Cemetery too close for comfort
Residents have been having sleepless nights since cemetery has been extended...
10/27/2004


Funeral customs reveal our links to the past
10/26/2004


Helping the healing
Heartfelt eulogy puts humanity in death...
10/26/2004


Company turning departed loved ones into diamonds
10/26/2004


Volunteers work to refurbish historic cemetery in Ash Grove
10/26/2004


Godfrey cemetery headstones vandalized
10/26/2004


Older cemetery vandal's hearing waived; younger provides details of attack
10/26/2004


33 tombstones are vandalized
Vandals tore through a 19th-century Godfrey cemetery Sunday night...
10/26/2004


Blessed are the dead in the Boalsburg Cemetery, for they have Gene Smith tending their graves.
10/26/2004


Wright-designed mausoleum opens at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo
10/26/2004


Families settle case against cemetery chain
Seventy-two families suing the beleaguered Menorah Gardens cemetery chain in Palm Beach County...
10/26/2004


Funeral workers in Scotland are taking part in a one-day strike action over pay and conditions.
10/25/2004


Bruce Kalm has joined Range Funeral Service, Inc.
10/25/2004


Those urns at the megaplex kiosk are not what you think
Flanner & Buchanan Funeral Centers and Crematory has brought cremation to the mainstream shopper...
10/25/2004


More Hispanics choose cremation
Pocketbook issues often play role in the decision...
10/25/2004


Charge over cemetery assault at Perth's Karrakatta Cemetery
10/25/2004


Volunteers work to refurbish historic cemetery in Ash Grove, MO
10/25/2004


Second teenager charged in Chico Cemetery vandalism
10/25/2004


Reward being offered in theft of cemetery flags from Marysville City Cemetery
10/25/2004


County's tombstones stand out in appearance, histories
10/25/2004


Nazi graffiti on war heroes' graves in Strasbourg's central military cemetery
10/25/2004


A tomb for musicians whose families cannot afford a plot
Descendants of jazz pioneer Isidore Barbarin offer vaults in the family mausoleum...
10/25/2004


State board fines Lake Havasu Mortuary for a series of violations.
10/22/2004


Settlement approved in crematory case
While the settlement ends the civil trial, Marsh still faces 787 criminal charges in the case...
10/22/2004


Cemetery to get a new building
Delwood Cemetery Association recently contracted a company to erect a new $100,000 steel service building...
10/22/2004


Mashantuckets trying to preserve 17th-century cemetery
10/22/2004


Zoning board approves new cemetery in Hopkinsville, KY
10/22/2004


Home Funerals: An Old Tradition Returns
More Families Are Choosing Home Funerals Over Commercial Services...
10/21/2004


Death Doesn't Mean Depth; Company Sends Ashes To Space
10/21/2004


A step in Wright direction
Blue Sky Mausoleum unveiling in Forest Lawn enhances city's hopes for cultural tourism...
10/21/2004


Two Arrested For Allegedly Vandalizing Graves at Memory Gardens cemetery
10/21/2004


Website allows messages from the grave
10/21/2004


Limit on grave tributes rejected at Ipswich gravesites in UK
10/21/2004


In grave danger
More than 25,000 headstones to be checked to make sure they do not pose a danger to visitors...
10/21/2004


Company offers space as final frontier for dead
10/20/2004


Zoning proposal reduced to ashes
San Leandro bans crematories after residents protest...
10/20/2004


Requiem for Rover
Sideline business for funeral home handles passed pets in IN...
10/20/2004


The Community Cathedral, a new Hispanic memorial site, opened Tuesday on Harlem Road in Cheektowaga.
10/20/2004


Most at meeting want Confederate flag to stay in Elmwood Cemetery
10/20/2004


Eldon city government is offering a reward for information about last Friday's vandalism of 165 headstones in the Eldon City Cemetery
10/20/2004


Are graveyards the final resting place of artificial turf?
10/20/2004


Veterans cemetery board forming in Hall County
10/20/2004


Archaeologist to examine Brownsville's Old City Cemetery next week
10/20/2004


Carriage Services Earnings Conference Call TH, Oct 28
10/19/2004


Dimensions by Batesville Casket Line Responds to Growing Trend
Helps funeral homes offer the right casket for all sizes...
10/19/2004


Israel's cemeteries to become multi-storey
Lack of land resources prompts decision...
10/19/2004


Major Clean-up Effort at Volgograd's Jewish Cemetery
Russian group aims to bring cemetery into complete order...
10/19/2004


Respecting 9/11's Dead
City proposes to leave the ash on the now-closed landfill and build park...
10/19/2004


Prairie Dogs Move Into NM Cemetery
Town officials try to protect final resting place of state's notables...
10/19/2004


What a way to go
Some forsake traditional funerals to make a personal, final statement...
10/19/2004


Little things cause big problems after death
Making final plans is the sensible thing to do...
10/18/2004


Cemeteries get eerie in Big Easy
A place where the dead are honored...
10/18/2004


Funeral homes assist transporting remains by air
New federal program assists families...
10/18/2004


TN funeral home eases ordeal for all races
Rare, multiracial business in an industry that remains segregated...
10/18/2004


Scout Spruces Up Downtown Tampa Cemetery
City's historical Oaklawn Cemetery can get messy...
10/18/2004


Archaeologists asked to solve cemetery mystery in FL
Crew armed with ground-penetrating radar...
10/18/2004