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NEWS ARCHIVE - INDUSTRY AND RELATED NEWS
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MSN Money: SRV one of 'three solid stocks for a shaky economy' 05/30/2003 Families memorialize their departed in a variety of ways Local funeral homes and cemeteries are providing a growing number of options... 05/30/2003 Casket company ends its days 05/30/2003 More FL grave sites damaged Coon Hill Cemetery second to be vandalized in a week... 05/30/2003 Police look for CT cemetery theft team Warn visitors to be alert... 05/30/2003 Hillside Cemetery walking tour slated 05/30/2003 Memorial fund to help parents of late St. Andrews student 05/30/2003 Traffic row over UK 'green' cemetery 05/30/2003 Talk on funerals to be held tomorrow in TN 'Prepaying for Funerals...' 05/30/2003 Ukiah High Senior wins with Joe Camel-in-coffin drawing 05/30/2003 City cemetery raises concern Oregon City weighs options for Mountain View, which has lost money for decades... 05/29/2003 Woman finds own grave dug at cemetery 05/29/2003 Victim advocates help in times of need Volunteers offer support following traumatic events... 05/29/2003 Grief expert shows there's growth in coping with death 05/29/2003 New Zealand business taps into coffin market In Comfort Coffins makes budget coffins which still look good... 05/29/2003 Folding the Flag at Military Funerals 05/29/2003 Rediscovering a lost loved one, amid the quiet of life 05/29/2003 Joyful tears surround Minnesota state cemetery Graves are now identified by name... 05/29/2003 Rockford's Roy Gayle Baseball Complex in grave danger SCI plans to sell the back 55 acres of Willwood Burial Park, where complex has stood for 41 years... 05/29/2003 Willed body lawsuits mulled in Texas Court will decide whether family members can sue the University of Texas Medical Branch... 05/29/2003 Six Feet Under posters banned People were upset by what appeared to be corpses advertising funeral products... 05/28/2003 More Than 97 Percent Say Expectations Met or Exceeded Dignity Memorial Begins Fourth Year of Independent Survey... 05/28/2003 Stewart Enterprises, Inc. Earnings Conference Call 05/28/2003 Missouri State Veterans Cemetery at Bloomfield to begin burials in August 05/28/2003 Duyck-VanDeHey Funeral Home in Oregon takes gentler, traditional approach 05/28/2003 Blair urges BBC to cut footage of two dead British soldiers from Iraq film 05/28/2003 Scott County, Iowa changes bereavement leave policy 05/28/2003 Catch up on old times with family, friends before time catches up to you 05/28/2003 Vandals desecrate Canton's historic West Lawn Memorial Day weekend Between 200 and 300 headstones were damaged or destroyed... 05/28/2003 Woodlawn can claim the first Memorial Day ceremony in the State of Illinois 05/28/2003 The Sacrifices for Freedom Iraq War's Toll Weighs Heavily At Memorial Day Ceremonies... 05/27/2003 Birthplace of Memorial Day disputed Somber show of respect and love brought three women to village cemetery in 1864... 05/27/2003 Memorial Stadium's words have new site, life 05/27/2003 Funeral homes offer bridge between life, death 'I think the good Lord meant for us to do something in life...' 05/27/2003 Lack of space jeopardizes final salute to veterans Only 61 of 120 U.S national cemeteries open to both casketed and cremated interments... 05/27/2003 'The most important day of the year' People gather at Woodlawn Cemetery... 05/27/2003 Carbondale's Woodlawn Cemetery has storied history 05/27/2003 A day of remembrance Not all Americans pay serious heed to the reasons for Memorial Day... 05/27/2003 Korea vet honors local troops, they honor him 05/27/2003 In Old Graveyards, the Dead Protect the Living Cemeteries Provide Refuge for Endangered Plants and Animals... 05/27/2003 Brother Once Lost Is Found After six decades, Leonard Drogin's name added to Memorial Wall... 05/27/2003 N.C. lawmakers considering stronger cremation laws 05/27/2003 Disagreement between PA industry associations highlighted over cemetery complaints 05/27/2003 Underground movement Meet one of the new breed of unconventional undertakers - and her latest client... 05/27/2003 Students play final trumpet call at veterans' funerals 05/27/2003 Haywood cemetery's Memorial Day plan upsets veterans 05/27/2003 Black-white, life-death issues Questions of race, ownership dog Hempstead cemetery care... 05/27/2003 Family settles with funeral home that gave them wrong ashes 05/27/2003 AL cemetery operator could face trial next month 05/27/2003 Dignity Memorial(R) Escape School(R) Commemorates Missing Children's Day With Abduction-Prevention Tips 05/23/2003 Dignity Memorial Marks 14TH Memorial Day of The Vietnam Wall Experience 05/23/2003 Service Corporation International Announces Settlement Agreement With Florida Attorney General's Office —Disputes Charges Filed By Other Florida Authorities 05/23/2003 Florida alleges SCI mishandled burials Company and two employees charged with felonies... 05/23/2003 Florida computer dispute delays professional licensing Funeral directors and embalmers among those who must wait... 05/23/2003 The Good Shepherd Memorial Park cemetery sale may not take place in Plains 05/23/2003 Now your final journey can be so good for planet Conservationists can look forward to a passing that leaves no mark on the environment... 05/23/2003 Greater Love Hath No Man Few Americans have employed Memorial Day for the purpose for which it was originally proposed... 05/23/2003 Ohio cemetery faces compliance probe from state 05/23/2003 Toledo cemetery chief transferred for 'performance issues' 05/23/2003 Halcombe burial controversy Members of Ngati Manomano could be prosecuted for the unlawful burial of a body... 05/23/2003 Shares revivified as Service Corp puts Fla. lawsuit to rest 05/22/2003 Cemeteries ready for Memorial Day events Organizers expect record high attendance in light of the recent war in Iraq... 05/22/2003 Mistakes add to woes of funeral company under inquiry 05/22/2003 Matthew's International Financials 05/22/2003 Menorah Gardens to face third degree felony charges today 05/22/2003 Preplanning a Funeral Gives Terminally Ill a Sense of Control 05/22/2003 New Australian magazine targets death A Scent of Flowers tackles all the issues relating to funerals... 05/22/2003 500 flags fly in tribute at Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin 05/22/2003 Buglers are becoming extinct Pentagon is planning to distribute ceremonial bugles that have buttons to push to hear a recording of taps... 05/22/2003 Fight after funeral injures 2 Shootings happened as family grieved... 05/22/2003 Hearse house arson is blow to Guilford Some unique Vermont history was destroyed by a suspicious fire... 05/22/2003 Grave matter before city of Palatka Workshop on rules and regulations for use of city cemeteries scheduled... 05/22/2003 Monday's Moment Of Remembrance Should Carry A Very Special Meaning 05/22/2003 Mims Indian burial mound needs respect Respect for the burial grounds left behind is an obligation and an honor... 05/22/2003 More Trouble At Menorah Gardens 05/21/2003 Widow: Cemetery mutilated husband's body Menorah Gardens cemetery managers admitted cutting out her late husband's tongue... 05/21/2003 State seeks settlement over Lynn's funeral program 05/21/2003 Tri-State Crematory Owner Dies 05/21/2003 Rapid City company broadcasts funerals on the Web for seven South Dakota funeral homes 05/21/2003 Republican senators to announce bills protecting consumers Michigan Funeral Directors Association said cemeteries and other burial businesses should have to follow the law for funeral homes... 05/21/2003 Vietnam Memorial Visits Suffolk The Branch Funeral Homes, a member of Dignity Memorial, is the main sponsor... 05/21/2003 A Caring Soul Techner has shown a gift for turning his own and other people's hardships into spiritual experiences... 05/21/2003 Athens cemetery to get special crew Only three or four firms in the country work solely in cemetery restoration... 05/21/2003 UK dead warm to wicker coffins Wicker coffins take two days of skilled work to craft... 05/21/2003 Ross County's war heroes honored at last Ceremony was held in "Patriot Square" in Grandview Cemetery... 05/21/2003 From Decoration Day to Memorial Day, goal of honoring fallen warriors continues 05/21/2003 Vandals strike at Spring Grove Cemetery -- again Cemetery vandalism seems to run in cycles... 05/21/2003 Hillenbrand Industries Names Wendy Wilson Vice President, Investor Relations 05/20/2003 Florida seeks settlement over Lynn University's funeral program Families accused program of embalming their loved ones without permission... 05/20/2003 Michigan bill would set requirements for prepaid funeral packages 05/20/2003 Legislators pursue laws against funeral fraud 05/20/2003 Police arrest suspect in mortuary murder A man who lived and worked at a family-run funeral home business is charged with murder... 05/20/2003 Don't be buried by funeral costs Advocacy groups warn consumers to shop around, ask questions despite grief... 05/20/2003 Maryland Suburbs Home To Three Black Parlors Anticipated expansion on the way... 05/20/2003 Comcast Can't Stand To Lose a Customer Death certificate needed to cancel cable service... 05/20/2003 Red faces as drivers put noses into a black break Southland funeral directors say drivers are becoming more and more disrespectful of funeral processions... 05/20/2003 UK thugs wreck graves in Teeside 05/20/2003 Philadelphia area on list for veterans cemetery 05/20/2003 SCI Settles Consumer Lending Lawsuit 05/19/2003 The death business vindicated A rebuttal to 1963'S `American Way Of Death,' `Rest In Peace' defends the funeral industry... 05/19/2003 Cemeteries return to local ownership; ownership returns credibility 05/19/2003 Ex-funeral home operator gets 14 years for raiding prepaid accounts 05/19/2003 Prentiss County funeral home director, wife charged with embezzlement Michael Salts and Alice Marie Salts were each indicted on six counts of embezzlement... 05/19/2003 Few funerals investigated in Arizona Only 10 to 20 complaints are filed a year... 05/19/2003 Advocacy groups warn consumers to shop around, ask questions despite grief 05/19/2003 Lee County (FL) will spend $88,000 in 2003 on indigent cremations, burials 05/19/2003 Two problematic Iowa cemeteries return to local ownership and restore credibility 05/19/2003 More killings follow undertakers' protest Hours after Los Angeles funeral workers drove a procession of hearses to protest inner-city homicides... 05/19/2003 For Great Falls, MT funeral directors, work is 'more than a job' 05/19/2003 UK mum's pain as baby's grave raided 05/19/2003 These jobs are set in concrete Fewer than a dozen companies build mausoleums nationally... 05/19/2003 Utica business works to keep grave sites well-groomed 05/19/2003 Funeral costs can be cut by thousands 05/19/2003 Hillenbrand Industries Announces Third Quarter 2003 Dividend 05/16/2003 Sewanee Man Wants Funeral Home Action A Sewanee man has asked Tennessee officials to punish funeral homes that used the Tri-State Crematory... 05/16/2003 Marsh trial venue debated If the Walker County grand jury indicts Marsh, his defense team will likely ask for a change of venue... 05/16/2003 Funeral Home Owner Arrested The owner of Spry Funeral Home was arrested and charged with theft by deception... 05/16/2003 Cremations become increasingly popular Cremation Trends... 05/16/2003 Funeral Home Keeps It Simple The idea is to offer funeral services in a more retail store-like setting to make it more comfortable for people... 05/16/2003 People add odd twists to funerals There is an old saying "You can't take it with you." Still, some people try... 05/16/2003 Pre-planning can extend to the final resting place 05/16/2003 $2 million additions start at Naples cemetery 05/16/2003 State OKs downtown crematory 05/16/2003 Pine Grove mortuary adds cemetery to its service 05/16/2003 Unraveling a mystery carved in stone Sarah Swan’s headstone has a scene featuring Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden... 05/16/2003 4 enter pleas in car break-ins at cemeteries Credits cards taken from mourners' cars were used to buy video games... 05/16/2003 Bones found at St. Mary's cemetery "I've been here 15 years and I've never seen anything like this"... 05/16/2003 A former teacher's new work hailed Lydia Stewart now helps families celebrating the life and memories of their loved ones... 05/16/2003 Mourners endure a bumpy ride to funerals Things are going from bad to hearse on the streets of Croydon... 05/16/2003 Beaufort National Cemetery expands 05/16/2003 Looking for that final resting place The Six Foot Under Club love Tekapo – in fact they never want to leave... 05/16/2003 Ute Cemetery Neglected No Longer "Gone but not forgotten"... 05/16/2003 Pet cemetery owner had lifelong affinity for animals Bereaved pet owners paid $200 and up for the Arapahoe Valley Pet Cemetery's version of a New Orleans jazz funeral... 05/16/2003 Carriage Services Inc Quarterly Report 05/15/2003 Carriage Services Inc Files Disclosure 05/15/2003 Mystery of mom's autopsy Questions surround fate of woman's body... 05/15/2003 Plains Cemetery will be Auctioned Where is the care fund? 05/15/2003 CA officials OKs downtown San Rafael crematory 05/15/2003 Cremations become increasingly popular 05/15/2003 Pre-planning can extend to the final resting place 05/15/2003 Lawyer denies autopsy claims of body tissue harvesting 05/15/2003 Commission wins 10K grant for Vine Lake Cemetery 05/15/2003 Carriage Services Elects Joe R. Davis to Board of Directors 05/14/2003 Hillenbrand Indus: Can't Determine Exact Charge Amount 05/14/2003 AARP: Assembly Passes Pre-Pay Funeral Protection Bill 05/14/2003 Punish Funeral Homes Associated With Tri-State Crematory? 05/14/2003 Cancer risk for funeral workers Workers exposed to formaldehyde face an increased risk of developing cancers of the nose, pharynx and lung... 05/14/2003 Controverisal ads launched for Six Feet Under "Skin to die for"... 05/14/2003 Funeral director suspended for not providing service A Tacoma funeral director shipped a body to Texas without providing a promised memorial service in Seattle... 05/14/2003 Tennessee funeral board hears Tri-State complaint 05/14/2003 SC coroner's office prepares funeral for unclaimed bodies 05/14/2003 Mystery of mom's autopsy Daughter wonders whether urn actually contains her mother's remains... 05/14/2003 Plains cemetery will be auctioned in PA 05/14/2003 Gravestone supplier accused of scamming families in three states 05/14/2003 Grave marker death leads to suit 05/14/2003 Unknown soldiers no more Names finally given to the 205 Confederate soldiers buried at Maplewood Cemetery... 05/14/2003 Bill would establish LA crematory regulations 05/14/2003 Hillenbrand Industries Inc Quarterly Report 05/13/2003 Carriage Services First Quarter Results Corrected 05/13/2003 Burials — a somber rite of spring When the ground becomes too frozen for a winter burial, coffins head to a cemetery vault for storage... 05/13/2003 Memorial service and interment for babies lost through miscarriage will be held in Aberdeen 05/13/2003 Officials Get Ready to Enforce Mississippi's New Telemarketing Law 05/13/2003 Funeral home lab's goal is ensuring positive memory 05/13/2003 Burials — a somber rite of spring 05/13/2003 Autopsy is often necessary 05/13/2003 Texas judge OKs cremation of cadavers used by med students 05/13/2003 Carriage Services Reports First Quarter Results 05/12/2003 PA State Board of Funeral Directors rules people can change funeral homes before death 05/12/2003 The cost of dying is not cheap Multitude of options for consumers... 05/12/2003 Finally, a lively look at cadavers What happens to the human body after a person has died... 05/12/2003 Pre-Paid Funerals Still a risky business... 05/12/2003 What are Social Security death benefits? 05/12/2003 Some Memorial Stones Need Not Be Made From Granite LifeGem is considering opening satellite offices in Europe and Japan... 05/12/2003 Louisiana bill to regulate crematories is up for passage 05/12/2003 EarthAngel Foundation offers comfort and practical assistance to bereaved families in Oakland 05/12/2003 NH gravestones shifted between cemeteries Prank could cost whoever did it more than a night in the slammer... 05/12/2003 Lansing's Mount Hope Cemetery vandal damage to be assessed 05/12/2003 Texas woman toils to preserve cemeteries 05/12/2003 ROCK OF AGES CORP form 8-K 05/09/2003 Rock of Ages Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend 05/09/2003 Carriage Services Announces First Quarter Earnings Release Schedule 05/09/2003 Service Corp International Files Disclosure 05/09/2003 Leverton and Sons Funeral Home plans to sell the hearse used for Princess Diana's funeral 05/09/2003 Batesville Casket's new product lines push individuality 05/09/2003 Retired NYFD captain recounts efforts to rescue the living and recover the dead at Ground Zero 05/09/2003 CA Senate OKs vet cemetery commission 05/09/2003 Toledo may speed up work at Forest Cemetery site 05/09/2003 Two cemeteries in the path of O'Hare's expansion to be relocated 05/09/2003 UK action on crematoria mercury Federation of British Cremation Authorities concerned about new measures... 05/09/2003 Hillenbrand Industries profits rise 05/08/2003 Service Corp. First-Quarter Earnings Fall 05/08/2003 State finds funeral home inspections inconsistent The AZ State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers should improve inspection procedures, according to a recent state audit... 05/08/2003 McDonald family finds a new resting place Funeral home owners add new location in Hall County... 05/08/2003 Floor Space Only at the Mortuary Bodies were crammed into the John Radcliffe Hospital's overcrowded mortuary... 05/08/2003 Neighbors rip proposal for crematory 05/08/2003 Pioneer cemeteries get needed facelifts 05/08/2003 Cemetery holds a lot of local history St. Bernard Catholic Cemetery has fallen in and out of repair several times... 05/08/2003 Even Cemeteries Are Not Spared I saw people talking on mobile phones with no respect whatsoever for death... 05/08/2003 Webcast Alert: Service Corporation International Announces Its First Quarter 2003 Earnings 05/07/2003 Class-action Status Still Applies in Crematory Lawsuits 05/07/2003 Funeral Merchandise Store All But Dead And Buried Customers Still Waiting On Purchases... 05/07/2003 Family's despair at cemetery mistake A family at the centre of the Hull cemetery scandal spoke out for the first time... 05/07/2003 Cemetery gates stolen It’s not often gates to a graveyard get hauled away in the middle of the night... 05/07/2003 Indigent funeral costs going up A local funeral director has asked commissioners to look at the amount the county pays for indigent burials... 05/07/2003 Tall tales, urban legends, and the truth Confederate headstone moved... 05/07/2003 Family's fury over dad's grave A row over 'flattened' gravestones... 05/07/2003 Research Alert-Smith Barney starts Hillenbrand as 'in-line' 05/06/2003 Crematory immunity to be taken out of bill Sen. John Carona no longer wants to give crematories immunity from civil lawsuits... 05/06/2003 Heard takes funeral home into high-tech era Milton Heard IV has brought 104-year-old Hart's Mortuary into the 21st century... 05/06/2003 Keeping funeral home as a family business The Wood sisters were raised in the death business, and they love it... 05/06/2003 She's a model undertaking Ex-pinup learns about life, death... 05/06/2003 Neighbours fight to stop crematorium Residents fear pollution, will appeal Beckwith Township decision to OMB... 05/06/2003 Ship's crew banned from disembarking Any establishment offering cremation services who refuse to cremate any persons suspected to have died of Sars shall be subject to closure of their business... 05/06/2003 Grave marker dispute settled A family dispute over a headstone for 2-year-old Cristian Cisneros has been settled... 05/06/2003 Backyard burden Micanopy residents up in arms over plan for pet crematory... 05/06/2003 A grave disservice Vandals have taken a toll on the landmark resting place of Polk County pioneers... 05/06/2003 Argentine graves examined Forensic scientists have begun exhuming corpses believed to be the remains of people who 'disappeared'... 05/06/2003 Kupper Parker inks pact with funeral service company 05/06/2003 A personal send-off Batesville Casket's new product lines push individuality... 05/05/2003 Service Corporation International Selects KPC as Communications Partner 05/05/2003 Durham funeral home may be forced to move 05/05/2003 AZ Board of Funeral Directors urged to tighten procedures 05/05/2003 Everest Funeral Package LLC offers ultimate lay-away plan 05/05/2003 MN's Northland Funeral Home is Small Business of the Year 05/05/2003 Inheritance rights bill draws no opposition To extend next-of-kin status to domestic partners... 05/05/2003 Crowded cemeteries in Johannesburg as death toll rises 05/05/2003 Juneau's mortician makes every death dignified 05/05/2003 Months Past Nightclub Fire, A Struggle To Go On 05/05/2003 At Arlington, a steady procession 05/05/2003 San Diego Gravestone Project is an unprecedented photographic archive 05/05/2003 Israeli security forces go on high alert for Memorial Day 05/05/2003 'Expired' stickers put ashes in danger in Australia 05/05/2003 Stewart Enterprises sees third-quarter charge 05/02/2003 After Arrest Threat, New York Funeral Home Complies With Court Order, Produces Information to the FTC 05/02/2003 Funeral Home owner charged with drugs, firearm possession 05/02/2003 Burial halted because grave is too narrow Mourners waited for hours while a bricklayer enlarged the brick-sided vault... 05/02/2003 Funeral director satisfies claim The Preciado family purchased a headstone elsewhere, and asked Wallace to reimburse them... 05/02/2003 Japanese women finding freedom beyond the grave Under Buddhist burial traditions, a woman's remains are usually placed in the plot of a husband... 05/02/2003 Vandals topple headstones at Lakeside Cemetery 05/02/2003 Stewart Enterprises Announces Refinancing of Remarketable or Redeemable Securities 05/01/2003 Carriage Services Announces First Quarter Earnings Release and Conference Call Schedule 05/01/2003 Service Corporation International's First Quarter 2003 Conference Call 05/01/2003 Measure to protect crematories advances A bill shielding crematory operators from lawsuits if their employees dump bodies looks likely for passage by the Senate... 05/01/2003 California mortuary offering DNA retrieval, storage for cemetery customers Mountain View Mortuary contracting with DNA Connections... 05/01/2003 Texas measure to protect crematories advances 05/01/2003 Sars and language Did media cause the refusal of managers of funeral homes to embalm or cremate... 05/01/2003 Sound of live 'Taps' will play on in Rhode Island 05/01/2003 UK burial halted because grave not wide enough for casket 05/01/2003 Blues Giant Leaves the Stage in a Grand Old Jazz Funeral 05/01/2003 Utah residents put pine casket to early use Maker encourages people to buy his caskets now and live with them... 05/01/2003 LA neighbor opposes church cemetery... 05/01/2003 Pittsburgh Cemetery Vandals Sought 05/01/2003 Fort Stewart Honors the Fallen 05/01/2003 SCI Homeless Veterans Burial Program Earns National Recognition for Public Service 04/30/2003 Organ measure set for approval in legislature The bill would prevent families from revoking permission to donate... 04/30/2003 Rock of Ages Reports First Quarter Results; Management Reiterates 2003 Earnings Guidance 04/30/2003 Woman suing funeral home A Marietta resident has filed a lawsuit alleging violations of a pre-need contract and improper embalming... 04/30/2003 Fear of Sars bugs burial of patient Fear of Sars caused funeral homes to refuse to embalm or cremate the government employee who died last Sunday... 04/30/2003 New downtown mortuary proposed Healdsburg is exhuming a nearly 100-year-old mortuary left for dead after fire ravaged the historic building... 04/30/2003 Hellish crematorium hinders family's hope for closure Bob Littig's body was sent to Tri-State Crematorium in Georgia... 04/30/2003 Businesses clear out as garage fire rages Corpses were hastily removed from an undertakers as a neighbouring garage was engulfed in flames... 04/30/2003 Osceola Cemetery grave sites vandalized Three juveniles under age 14 face charges... 04/30/2003 Budget cuts sound taps for live buglers at vets’ funerals State budget woes have brought an end to a program that provided taps-playing buglers at veterans’ funerals... 04/30/2003 City is plotting cemetery changes New facilities meet demand for cremations... 04/30/2003 Funeral Home Eyes Expansion 04/30/2003 Cemeteries experience recent rash of break-ins Visitors to grave sites are advised to keep their valuables close as Oahu thefts rise... 04/30/2003 Granite slab stolen from prominent poet's grave 04/30/2003 Driver pulled over with mum's coffin on roof rack A man in Germany wanted to save on funeral costs... 04/30/2003 Cody eyes land for cemetery expansion The Riverside Cemetery District will need to expand in coming years... 04/30/2003 Honduran Authorities Find Secret Cemeteries Four secret cemeteries were used to bury victims of the country's anti-insurgency campaigns... 04/30/2003 Owners of the first black funeral home in Carbondale, IL to be honored with street in their name 04/29/2003 Florida's Brewer & Sons Funeral Homes and Cremation Services will pay the cost to erect memorial to skateboarder 04/29/2003 Phillipines' fear of Sars caused funeral homes to refuse to embalm or cremate government employee 04/29/2003 Walker Financial Corporation Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Ensure Agency, which specializes in the marketing of prearranged funerals 04/29/2003 Pacific Casket Expands Product Offering to Include Markers and Urns 04/29/2003 Grieving as a community forum to focus on unique aspects of 'public tragedy' 04/29/2003 Rhode Island budget cuts sound taps for live buglers at vets' funerals 04/29/2003 Edmonton is plotting cemetery changes New facilities meet demand for cremations... 04/29/2003 Oakland Cemetery Walk set Iowa preservation groups planning to promote history... 04/29/2003 Newark committee OKs compromise for new mausoleum 04/29/2003 Group scrambles for funds to preserve ailing cemetery Honolulu Memorial Park filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December 2001... 04/29/2003 The online way of death Log on, click, buy a cremation -- hassle-free funerals are here... 04/28/2003 Lower death rates squeezing profits of funeral firms 04/28/2003 Personal loss boosts embalmer's empathy 04/28/2003 Veterans affairs: Burial benefits help loved ones 04/28/2003 Evansville Mortician Moonlights As Cheerleader 04/28/2003 Group scrambles for funds to preserve ailing HI cemetery 04/28/2003 'Coffin was thrown in, like baggage' 04/28/2003 Families' anguish over shambles at cemetery Catalogue of mismanagement at a municipal burial service... 04/28/2003 Juneau's only mortician makes every death dignified 04/28/2003 Dispute Heads To Court: Funeral home says ads for competitor mislead Rival denies breaking law to gain business share... 04/28/2003 ‘Six Feet Under’ star Freddy Rodriguez has a more substantial role this season and several films in the works, too 04/28/2003 Vandals strike Mid-City cemetery Casket, skulls taken from tombs... 04/28/2003 From Crib to Casket: City Celebrates Trees Trees have supported man throughout the millennia... 04/28/2003 Ceremony will commemorate lost grave found Charlotte Crum is believed to be one of the very first people buried in the Brooksville Cemetery... 04/28/2003 Church honored with historical markers The historic marker stands at the site of the cemetery where the former log church once stood... 04/28/2003 Woman hurt in graveyard attack A pensioner is recovering after one of her fingers was broken during a robbery as she visited her husband's grave... 04/28/2003 Family's Distress About Lack Of Care For Grave A Plymouth family found a relatives' grave covered with earth from a newly-dug plot nearby... 04/28/2003 Secret graves found in Honduras 04/28/2003 Portsmouth cemetery restoration gets $4,000 04/28/2003 Riverside Cemetery named to state register Established in 1855 at a time when cities increasingly were turning to rural cemeteries for both functional and aesthetic reasons... 04/28/2003 Grieving Persons Need Help 04/27/2003 Local funeral director Carmon honored with regional award from the American Legion 04/27/2003 Students visit Vietnam Wall Experience 04/27/2003 Looking for ancestors in family tree gets a little easier 04/27/2003 Cemetery accused of burying people in the wrong place 04/27/2003 Hillenbrand Industries Invites You To Join Its Fiscal 2003 Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call 04/25/2003 Funeral home getting back to business Electrical fire causes $100,000 in damage... 04/25/2003 Crematory keeps pace with funeral trends Rising Sun facility first in county... 04/25/2003 Body transportation contract draws criticism Jay Carnes bid on the contract to transport bodies to the county medical examiner's office to keep employees busy... 04/25/2003 Residents gain meeting on crematory Word of the city-approved crematory has galvanized some residents... 04/25/2003 All pets go to heaven Feathered or furry, animals honored at cemetery... 04/25/2003 Woman found dead in historic cemetery The unidentified woman was found collapsed in front of a gravestone... 04/25/2003 Cemetery vandalism appalls local historians Vandals overturn, damage 34 headstones; police lack solid leads in case... 04/25/2003 Relatives dig up Iraq's disappeared from numbered graves For years there were only numbers -- mound after mound in the parched dust marked by numbered metal stakes... 04/25/2003 New chance for Ord cemetery McPherson bill would prioritize site for veterans... 04/25/2003 Officials mark completion of land deal for veterans cemetery Land deals paving the way for a national veterans cemetery are now complete... 04/25/2003 Plea to provide toilets at cemetery 04/25/2003 No wakes for suspected Sars deaths Strict burial and cremation rules will now apply in suspected Sars cases... 04/24/2003 Monopolies: Do Not Pass Go Institute for Justice... 04/24/2003 JCAM apologizes for betting pool The Newton-based Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts intended to have only a little 'fun'... 04/24/2003 Funeral home burns in Oakland Stewert building heavily damaged... 04/24/2003 All In The Family These kids went to work with their mom or dad -- and stayed there... 04/24/2003 Go out with a bang Undertaker Carl Marlow has launched a new service that puts fun into funerals... 04/24/2003 Grand Opening of New Ridgewood Funeral Chapel and Mausoleum 04/24/2003 Where people go when they die Cemeteries have provided us with insights into past cultures, belief systems and genealogies... 04/24/2003 Pioneer cemeteries-- Volunteers sought for two May 3 projects 04/24/2003 Officials mark completion of land deal for veterans cemetery 04/24/2003 Cemetery's former head recalled When one visits Green Lawn Cemetery today, one is often struck by how peaceful and attractive is this last resting place... 04/24/2003 Headstone rewards Institute that broke TN casket monopoly 04/24/2003 Rock of Ages Corporation Earnings Conference Call Scheduled Wed, Apr 30 04/23/2003 Jewish Cemetery Association of MA apologizes for betting pool 04/23/2003 Zeitler's 'Soul Passing' makes a difference in people's lives A funeral home ordered 500 'sympathy' stones... 04/23/2003 Shuttle Memorial Approved for Arlington Cemetery A memorial to honor astronauts of Columbia will be built... 04/23/2003 Council considers protest of crematory A decision on the air quality permit is expected early next month... 04/23/2003 Health officials meet religious leaders over funeral arrangements for SARS victims The Health Ministry has used the Infectious Diseases Act for the handling and disposal of bodies... 04/23/2003 Clean sweep brings order to littered cemetery The names on hundreds of graves at Glenco-Geiger Cemetery are no longer obscured by overgrown weeds and grass... 04/23/2003 Cemetery to receive new database system Details of Macphelah Cemetery and its thousands of lots will soon be accessible with the click of a mouse... 04/23/2003 Artifacts taken from cemetery The big stone angel that stood guard for more than a century was among several historic artifacts taken... 04/23/2003 Cemetery map on public view for updates A small committee has formed to identify the cemeteries to help people research genealogy... 04/23/2003 Graves tell story of a murderous dictator Right up to the war, Saddam executed his political foes... 04/23/2003 Colma cemeteries home to great art When most people look at this small town's cemeteries, they see a sober landscape filled with graves... 04/23/2003 Few Want to Wash the Dead "Unemployment is a lot better than washing dead bodies..." 04/23/2003 Marines restore neglected cemetery Brits killed in Iraq by Turks in WWI 04/23/2003 Stolen statue honored Civil War forces Malcolm Wilcox had a rude awakening Easter morning... 04/23/2003 Vendors Making a Killing At the Cemetery Some of the wares on sale include cigarettes, sweets, maputi and frozen cool drinks... 04/23/2003 UK Mayor tells of town's sadness over deaths Cambridge relieved after the bodies of two soldiers from Carver Barracks, Wimbish, were found in Iraq... 04/22/2003 'Out of control' eulogies prompt ban Canadian church leaders, fed up with jokes and unseemly odes, are cracking down... 04/22/2003 Glory of taps needs no myth Taps owes its creation to Brig. Gen. Dan Butterfield... 04/22/2003 Hong Kong too scared of SARS to go out Many residents didn't go to sweep their ancestors' graves during the Ching Ming festival... 04/22/2003 Zimbabwe vendors making a killing at the cemetery People have lost respect for the final resting places of others by peddling their wares at cemeteries... 04/22/2003 Graves of nearly 1,000 Iraqi political prisoners discovered 04/22/2003 |
Hospice helps military families Hospice helps people who are grieving and educates people about issues related to death and grieving... 04/22/2003 Collaboration of GE, EDS, Federated Life to Revolutionize Old Fashioned Funeral Industry 04/21/2003 Stewart Enterprises Selects Comshare(R) Corporate Performance Management Software to Help Manage Operations 04/21/2003 Lynn officials never checked body provider 04/21/2003 Funeral planner to shake up industry Mark Duffey's Everest Funeral Package LLC has created the first national funeral package... 04/21/2003 Funeral home says ads for competitor mislead Rival denies breaking law to gain business share... 04/21/2003 Timing was bad for potential Marsellus suitor Three years ago, Marsellus Casket Co. had a potential suitor: Aurora Casket Co. of Aurora, Ind... 04/21/2003 Food for worms, food for thought Those who love to read up on things nobody likes to think about now have a book written just for them... 04/21/2003 Low mortality rate hurts funeral business The funeral home business is dying... 04/21/2003 Another Alternative Freezing your body at death... 04/21/2003 Business owner charged with sex abuse of child Mobile police arrested the owner of local embalming company and charged him with first-degree sexual abuse... 04/21/2003 Consumer expert's tips pay off with big savings If the consumer movement had a poster boy, it would be Clark Howard... 04/21/2003 Sentencing Begins For Fraudulent Funeral Director The ex-funeral home director admits he stole tens of thousands from families... 04/21/2003 Cemetery gets much-needed attention City Manager Julio Avael wants to give the Key West Cemetery a facelift... 04/21/2003 Caring for the dead, caring for community Some might say it's creepy, but Bill Wilkerson says at least he knows none of his customers can hurt him or complain... 04/21/2003 Riverside National is the nation's most active veteran's cemetery 04/21/2003 Neighbors plan crematory protest 04/21/2003 Local funeral homes speak out against SCI SCI owns many CNY funeral homes... 04/18/2003 Man gets probation in funeral home theft A Mansfield man stole nearly $100,000 from a Pennsylvania funeral home... 04/18/2003 Not a good place to die In Vail, CO there is no room for a cemetery. A virtual cemetery may be the answer... 04/18/2003 Firm back from dead After nearly 120 years of helping the dead... 04/18/2003 1,500 Mystery Graves Found in Kirkuk Cemetery 04/18/2003 Hatfield-McCoy feud ends. And the winner is... The feuding families were at odds over access to a hillside cemetery... 04/18/2003 Graves laid to rest Gravestones will be laid on the ground because of fears they could be unsafe... 04/18/2003 Vandals strike Hobart cemetery; 34 stones toppled 04/18/2003 Wright brothers' grave-keeper girding for visitors 04/18/2003 Artist to reproduce 1804 gravestone of Easton Indian 04/18/2003 Funerals, the 4th Generation It's the fourth chapter of a family tradition at a local funeral home, but with a twist... 04/17/2003 Funeral home donates grant to child advocacy foundation 04/17/2003 Goodyear panel approves crematory, riles residents Despite an overflow crowd howling about their property values... 04/17/2003 Man pleads guilty to embezzling $99000 The district attorney's office said a felony conviction automatically results in the loss of funeral director licenses... 04/17/2003 Report: 3,000 unmarked graves in Kirkuk Kurdish satellite television has found a cemetery filled with shallow graves... 04/17/2003 Undertaker 'dumped ashes' A local undertaker says his company buried 15 refuse bags of human ash... 04/17/2003 Judge Nixes Lawsuit Over Indian Cemetery The site of land is now used as a Flushing playground... 04/17/2003 Sitting Bull reburial celebrates 50th anniversary 04/17/2003 Chapel honours the dead, bone by bone 04/16/2003 We dumped human ashes: funeral home The ashes had been kept at the funeral parlour since 1980 as relatives never collected them... 04/16/2003 Parlour mum on 'human ashes' 04/16/2003 Cremation regulation The Senate unanimously approved a bill that would overhaul regulations on crematories... 04/16/2003 SABEX field diverse group Business of the Year nominees include Mourning Glory Funeral Services, which offers a low-cost funeral alternative... 04/16/2003 New owner seeks to restore troubled Pacheco Cemetery Eric Bianco of Fairfield wants to turn the run-down 5 acres into an attractive resting place again... 04/16/2003 Crematory unwelcome neighbor in Goodyear "We don't like the thought of having bodies burned in our back yards..." 04/16/2003 Cemetery may prop up general fund Money earmarked for the dead may soon help the living... 04/16/2003 MP wants special fund for destitute to bury dead "It is cheaper to live than to die..." 04/16/2003 Teen-ager arrested for cemetery vandalism Police say man, 19, destroyed gravestones and damaged urns in Pilgrim Home Cemetery... 04/16/2003 Hospital stiffed by cremating wrong man Red-faced Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office officials publicly apologized... 04/16/2003 A Wartime Oasis of Selfless Compassion Among the Iraq war's unsung heroes are the mortuary affairs team... 04/15/2003 Lab uses massive DNA database to identify fallen troops 04/15/2003 Hill-Rom to Cut Up to 300 Jobs Hospital Bed Maker Hill-Rom to Cut Up to 300 Jobs Over the Next Year... 04/15/2003 Funeral bosses collect eggs Funeral directors are getting into the Easter spirit by collecting eggs to help good causes... 04/15/2003 Crematory overhaul Two New Orleans lawmakers have filed bills that would overhaul Louisiana rules governing crematories... 04/15/2003 From pews to parks, no room to spare in San Luis Obispo 04/15/2003 No room at the cemetery New policy jacks up prices for burial plots for non-Clay County residents... 04/15/2003 New Hope to Solve 225-Year-Old Mystery An 18th-century woman's death during the Revolutionary War turned her into an early American icon... 04/15/2003 Funeral home business to expand Firm plans to serve Howard County's growing need... 04/15/2003 Gruesome find on beach to be tested Police are investigating whether ashes and bone fragments found are human remains... 04/15/2003 Funeral parlor employees charged in mix-up Three employees are being charged with forging documents... 04/15/2003 Arrests following cemetery thefts Two women have been cautioned for stealing flowers from graves at a cemetery... 04/15/2003 Cheers for living; care for dead Bluecats' squad member finds exuberance on field a spirited contrast to job at funeral home... 04/15/2003 British soldier visits great-grandfather's grave in Iraq war cemetery 04/14/2003 The trees won't go Bogalusa City Council will reintroduce cemetery rule ordinance... 04/14/2003 Hillenbrand Industries' Hill-Rom Unit Establishes New Business Structure to Accelerate Growth in Health Care Industry 04/14/2003 Organ donation may give hope in tragedy 04/14/2003 Baltimore's Howell Funeral Home expanding to serve Howard County's growing need 04/14/2003 Funeral director helps people through difficult times Business of death is no less than a sacred calling... 04/14/2003 Sharing the Wealth? The battle over the death tax... 04/14/2003 Family has plans to sue trustee A local family has filed a tort claim notice over a mix-up in the burial of their father... 04/14/2003 Will historic Idaho church go to cemetery or meet wrecking ball? 04/14/2003 War victims' kin get benefits 04/14/2003 White County cemeteries have tales to tell 04/14/2003 Beautiful artwork dots cemeteries Colma monument maker thinks city has world-class treasures... 04/14/2003 NFDA reviewing proposals that could reclassify funeral directors Funeral directors are not considered professional employees and must be paid overtime... 04/11/2003 S&P revises Service Corp International outlook from negative to stable 04/11/2003 Mississippi to Start DNC List July 1 04/11/2003 Grimes Funeral Chapels buys Overby Funeral Home in Texas 04/11/2003 MP wants special fund for Jamaican destitute to bury dead 04/11/2003 Avon, CT approves Carmon Community funeral home plan Construction on the 10,399-square-foot business to begin by June 1... 04/11/2003 UK widow's husband buried in the garden of their home Rather than a traditional cemetery burial, they chose a location they love... 04/11/2003 Family has plans to sue trustee Mix-up at cemetery over father's burial was 'very traumatic'... 04/11/2003 House approves new rules for Louisiana crematories 04/11/2003 Nation pays its respects during military funerals 04/11/2003 Preliminary approval given to Archdiocese of Philadelphia for cemetery 04/10/2003 Big Money for Final Resting Place Latest token of wealth and influence for Chinese... 04/10/2003 Hilo mortuary ordered to pay $37,000 04/10/2003 Dead Wrong Relatives say Houston cemetery sells the same plot over and over... 04/10/2003 Minister's fury at gravedigging sell-off decision 04/10/2003 Lucas Hill Cemetery in Waugh May Relocate 04/10/2003 Psalms of comfort never reached Kiski Township soldier All family knows is that Booker was killed Saturday, apparently by enemy fire... 04/10/2003 Grieving Woman In Battle Over Body Insurers refuse to fly body back from Spain... 04/10/2003 Emotional Message California veterans open hearts to those in Iraq during annual ceremony at VA hospital... 04/10/2003 Bishop clamps down on funeral eulogies Bishop cites the Order of Christian Funerals which dictates a brief homily... 04/10/2003 Australian cemetery is an 'eyesore' The state of Sunbury Cemetery is so poor that people have chosen to be cremated instead of buried there... 04/10/2003 Legislature: Reforms proposed for FL death care industry 04/09/2003 Funeral Merchandise Company Shut Down Judge Grants Receivership... 04/09/2003 Funeral director suspended over forgeries James Aubin was suspended by the Vermont Board of Funeral Service for failing to maintain proper records... 04/09/2003 111 Unidentified Corpses at Tri-State Crematory Perplex Investigators Prosecutors had awaited the total before seeking an indictment against the crematory operator... 04/09/2003 Hysterical crowd prevents cremation of SARS victim in Thailand The villagers feared the SARS virus would spread in the air... 04/09/2003 Female skeletons dug up in China to make 'ghost soup' 04/09/2003 Food from mourners adds up Different kind of memorial does good, Indiana family says... 04/09/2003 Dead uncertainty in Seattle Funeral directors may begin picketing outside Bonney-Watson funeral home on Capitol Hill... 04/09/2003 Minister's fury at UK gravedigging sell-off decision Outrage has greeted the announcement that gravedigging service at South Way cemetery in Hatfield is to be privatized... 04/09/2003 Police honor guard OK'd in Merrillville Lee said the honor guard would be used for funerals for current and former Merrillville police officers... 04/09/2003 Eleven dead British servicemen brought home 04/09/2003 Holland vandals desecrate tombstones, urns and flower pots Pilgrim Home Cemetery can find no reason why vandalism escalated from stones being moved to stones being damaged... 04/09/2003 Tennessee county seeks to identify forgotten burial grounds The idea is part of a Montgomery County Millennium Commission project to identify cemeteries, including family burial plots... 04/09/2003 Consultant: Kansas cemetery in decent condition Topeka State Hospital cemetery is in better condition than some psychiatric hospital cemeteries in the U.S.... 04/09/2003 Protesters say no to San Rafael plans for crematory Protesters voiced their displeasure at the idea of a crematory in a downtown funeral home... 04/09/2003 Love and loss At Judi's House, grieving kids learn from Griese's experience... 04/08/2003 Images of war, sanitized for your protection Perhaps Americans really only see the dead as flag-draped caskets arriving at Dover Air Force Base... 04/08/2003 GBI releases more than 100 unidentified Tri-State remains for burial 04/08/2003 Baker eyes charges against examiner in Tri-State case 04/08/2003 Walker Financial Corporation Appoints Investor Relations Advisor 04/08/2003 Employees of funeral homes advised to exercise extreme caution with SARS victims 04/08/2003 VA urged to sever contracts with French military headstone supplier 04/08/2003 Vets may face cuts in new federal budget; but increases proposed for burials, national cemeteries 04/08/2003 Lack of space for the fallen Department of Veteran's Affairs acknowledges that the problem is serious... 04/08/2003 What to say to someone facing death 04/08/2003 Colma's cemeteries are filled with art for the departed 04/08/2003 Missouri student learns funeral trade Ryan is the fifth generation of McGilleys to work at the McGilley Memorial Chapel in Kansas City... 04/08/2003 New UK service aims to help bereaved St Albans & District Bereavement Network launched to help cope with the death of a loved one... 04/08/2003 Cemeteries come alive in new book 04/08/2003 NJ Animal Shelter in Cremation Quagmire 04/08/2003 Mix Up Over Staffordshire Headstone Headstone reported stolen was removed by monumental masons in a mix up with a funeral directors... 04/08/2003 Marsellus Casket workers dig for answers SCI sold the Marsellus brand names and designs to Batesville... 04/07/2003 NFDA Policy Board Vote Provides Options 04/07/2003 Hillenbrand Industries Invites You to Listen to its Presentation 04/07/2003 The fabric of life Quilt's a special way to keep a child's memory alive... 04/07/2003 Tennessee funeral-escort bill to die in committee State Rep. West decided against trying to move the bill to the House floor because he did not have the votes to pass it... 04/07/2003 Funeral director Sherri Sciola joins Carmon Community Funeral Homes As a teenager, she decided to go into funeral service after the death of her grandfather... 04/07/2003 New viewing room at New Zealand Memorial Park Room will allow mourners to observe the coffins of their loved ones enter the cremators... 04/07/2003 Casualties come home Honor, dignity upheld after death... 04/07/2003 Hispanic victims' families find voice for their grief Rochester Friends and Families of Murdered Children and Victims of Violence started a Spanish-speaking group... 04/07/2003 Funerals for the fallen Families and friends have begun to lay to rest brave Americans who were killed serving their nation... 04/07/2003 Florida GOP considers raiding trust funds House wants to take $4 million of the $5 million set aside for people who pre-pay for funerals with companies that go bankrupt... 04/07/2003 Final letters from loved ones at war bring pain, but they also become treasures All offer declarations of love, wishes for quick reunions and an understanding of the danger ahead... 04/07/2003 Ghana bans on expensive funerals The Agona Traditional Council in the Central Region has placed a ban on expensive funeral rites in the area... 04/07/2003 Goldsmith arrested for selling tomb-raided goods 04/07/2003 Funeral Company Mulls Listing On Zimbabwe Stock Exchange Doves Crocker-Morgan, the country's oldest and largest funeral assurance company, is mulling a listing before year-end... 04/07/2003 Atrocity theory discarded for bodies in warehouse Warehouse full of bodies appears to have been a repatriation facility for soldiers killed during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s... 04/07/2003 Graveyard graffiti taunts the allies Authorities have increased vigilance over 24 U.S. military cemeteries abroad... 04/04/2003 Matthews International Announces Second Quarter Earnings Release and Conference Call Schedule 04/04/2003 Company says no changes planned for Clarksburg Casket Parent company has no immediate plans to close or consolidate the facility... 04/04/2003 Doing the right thing costly but important According to the Cemetery Board, the managers of the Memory's Garden in Colonie filed false documents with funeral directors... 04/04/2003 Four fallen, four mourned, four coming home to rest in Oregon The small number - the huge loss - feels disproportionately cruel in a state without big military installations... 04/04/2003 Wakes and sin eaters Welsh funerals have been associated with strange and melancholy customs... 04/04/2003 Customized coffins on offer in Wales Belief that a funeral should be a celebration of a life in death has led to the ultimate in customized departures... 04/04/2003 Tragedy Pierces the Heart, Memory the Skin "Indelible Memories" - a Staten Island photography exhibition of people who decided to remember the victims of Sept. 11 through tattoos... 04/04/2003 National cemeteries add new war dead Riverside National Cemetery and Arlington both expect to hold funerals in the coming weeks... 04/04/2003 Books examine dying, death and those left behind Death is a reality that our society prefers not to think about... 04/04/2003 Partner's Headstone Heartache Family is devastated after thieves stole a three feet high granite headstone marking a grave in Staffordshire... 04/04/2003 Chirac apologizes for graves graffiti Chirac apologized to the Queen for the desecration of a British war cemetery... 04/04/2003 Goldsmith, Main Suspect Held In Iban Grave Theft Cases Arrests were a major breakthrough for the police... 04/04/2003 Pacemakers spell crematoriums Crematorium explosions declined for a period in Denmark, but appear to be on the rise once more... 04/04/2003 Sacramento's Funeral Merchandise Files For Bankruptcy Owner Says Filing Won't Affect Customers... 04/04/2003 Funeral Home Cheated Out of Funds for Preparations 04/04/2003 Suit claims cemetery sold fake crypt space More than six years after selling spots in a planned mausoleum they still haven't broken ground on the new crypts... 04/04/2003 Coffins accepted as payment for breaks at Serbian holiday spa 04/04/2003 Board has revoked one license in a decade Carson J. Quinn no longer practices as a funeral director but still owns a funeral home... 04/03/2003 Options discussed in National Cremation Society meeting Taking steps to ensure that cremation is paid for and arranged... 04/03/2003 Looking on the bright side of death in New Zealand Angus has painted a three-metre diameter smiley face on his Omega Funeral Homes wall... 04/03/2003 Massachusetts moves against six in alleged rule violations Funeral director of the L.O. Paradis Funeral Home in Fall River permanently surrendered her license... 04/03/2003 Anger as UK funeral charges rise 17% Undertakers are furious over the increases in burial and cremation costs... 04/03/2003 A Peaceful Parting New Marco company helps ease the grief of family and friends through preparation... 04/03/2003 Coast Guard allows rare war leave for grandmother's funeral 04/03/2003 What are the words to the military bugle call Taps 04/03/2003 Czech Film Keeps the Reaper at Bay With Mischievous Exuberance Misbehavior in "Autumn Spring" is a canny strategy for warding off death... 04/03/2003 How to be helpful in times of loss Death leads to tips on helping friends and loved ones through their grief... 04/03/2003 National Cemeteries Prepare For America's Newest War Dead Iraq War Veterans To Be Treated Same As Past War Veterans... 04/03/2003 Family: Marines Keep Quiet About Son's Death Family claims that they are having to pay a portion of son's burial costs... 04/03/2003 Bombs Could Hurt the U.S. More When the U.S. generals planned their shock and awe policy of attacking Baghdad, they forgot about the funerals afterwards... 04/03/2003 Military, funerals change with times for those who die in uniform Jones Funeral Home began helping families say goodbye to loved ones in 1920... 04/02/2003 Delivering death news a tough job Notifying military families just beginning of long process... 04/02/2003 Marines show loyalty at funeral in Powell Dozens of Marines and former Marines turned out to help bury one of their own... 04/02/2003 State pathologist investigated in crematory case Authorities are investigating a state medical examiner who worked on the Tri-State crematory case... 04/02/2003 Seniors' group calls for boycott of parent of Marsellus Casket 04/02/2003 Chinese burials at sea gain popularity Shanghai hosts more burials at sea than any other coastal city in the country... 04/02/2003 Hawaiian mortuary trial put off until October Theft trial for principal figures at Memorial Mortuary... 04/02/2003 South Carolina Attorney General Sues Phares Cemetery accused of selling preneed burial crypts in a non-existent mausoleum... 04/02/2003 London: Undertaker brothers jailed for funeral scam 04/02/2003 Get rid of the trash! Chinese throughout Borneo have been seen flocking to cemeteries in preparation for Ching Ming day... 04/02/2003 Grave robbers strike again 27 Malaysian Iban graves desecrated... 04/02/2003 Respecting the Rights of the Dead in India An immigrant denied cremation in Ponda... 04/02/2003 French plea as British war cemetery defaced 04/01/2003 Funeral home director surrenders license Rachel Deschene-Costa violated state regulations by failing to account for prepaid funeral costs... 04/01/2003 Stewart Enterprises Announces Discussions with Lenders to Redeem Remarketable or Redeemable Securities 04/01/2003 West under fire for bills to ease Tennessee gun controls West's funeral escort bill would allow only licensed security companies to provide funeral procession escort services... 04/01/2003 Mississippi legislators send 'no call' bill to gov. House and Senate adopted a compromise bill that allows the Public Service Commission to regulate telemarketing... 04/01/2003 Funeral home truly family business Higgins Funeral Home in Fayetteville got its start 100 years ago... 04/01/2003 Dover Air Force Base Last Stop on the Journey Home Home to the Defense Department's joint services morgue and mortuary is the last stop on the long journey home for those killed overseas... 04/01/2003 Tibetans prefer modern cremation In the past, Tibetans would burn cypress trees to cremate the bodies of the deceased... 04/01/2003 Bugler blows 'Taps' from the heart Sherman plays her trumpet for deceased free of charge... 04/01/2003 Residents fight plan to move historical graves for new bridge Texas officials will move several graves from a 115-year-old cemetery to make way for the crossing... 04/01/2003 UK war cemetery in France defaced Vandals have defaced war cemetery with graffiti condemning the US-British invasion of Iraq... 04/01/2003 Attorneys wary over Menorah Gardens deal Concern that SCI trying to get plaintiffs to give up their right to sue if they signed off on shifting the burial vaults... 04/01/2003 Menorah plaintiffs seek court order Lawyers have complained that the cemetery is relocating plots without their cooperation or court oversight... 03/31/2003 Closing devastates founder's great-grandson "Our people are the best wood casket-making team in the country..." 03/31/2003 Family continues search for body Mystery remains uncovered in former Riverview Cemetery... 03/31/2003 A.C. funeral home director indicted An Atlantic City funeral director who allegedly left five bodies decomposing inside her funeral home... 03/31/2003 Funeral homes not affected by closing SCI owns four in Syracuse area. Independent funeral directors shed few tears... 03/31/2003 Philippine hospitals, funeral homes charging city high fees for blast victims Funeral parlors reportedly demanding excessive fees for airport blast victims' funeral expenses ... 03/31/2003 SW Florida's largest air freight export? It's, well, bodies Funeral industry consultant estimates over $10 million in annual revenue... 03/31/2003 Minus the melodrama, "Six Feet" similarities are relative at Latino-owned mortuary Funeraria Aztlan is the only Latino-owned mortuary of 64 in San Diego County... 03/31/2003 "Living With Grief: Coping With Public Tragedy" Hospice Foundation of America's 10th annual bereavement teleconference scheduled for April 30... 03/31/2003 Code of Conduct for funeral directors available New Hampshire Funeral Directors Association (NHFDA)adopts NFDA's Code of Professional Conduct... 03/31/2003 Laying to rest the days of his and hearse The world of funeral homes is no longer an all-male stronghold... 03/31/2003 NY tax funds cemetery upkeep Since 1988, New York has charged cemeteries $5 for each body they bury or cremate... 03/31/2003 Powell craftsman builds wooden coffins with Western flair For some getting planted in a fancy, store-bought casket is as unnatural as busting broncs in a three-piece suit... 03/31/2003 At Salisbury National Cemetery, workers hold breath One thing the U.S. Military does right is care for its dead... 03/31/2003 Thousands gather to bury 600 Srebrenica victims Relatives gathered to lay to rest the first identified victims of Europe's worst civilian massacre since the Second World War... 03/31/2003 Wyoming craftsman builds wooden coffins with Western flair Designed to be subtle, elegant and make a statement about the occupant... 03/31/2003 Family arrested for stealing prestige cars for cousin's funeral 03/31/2003 Federal overtime-pay proposals open for public comment 03/28/2003 Funeral service giant closes company 03/28/2003 Marsellus closing devastates founder's great-grandson 03/28/2003 Famous casket-maker Marsellus shutting down Decision announced by SCI... 03/28/2003 Disregarding a tradition as old as the pyramids Australia running out of room for cemeteries... 03/28/2003 Code of Conduct for funeral directors available 03/28/2003 Carriage Services Inc. Annual Report 03/28/2003 Supreme Court weighs sales taxes due on caskets 03/28/2003 Transplant team's deluxe fleet British organ-swap youngsters are to be given VIP treatment thanks to kind-hearted funeral directors... 03/28/2003 Growth presses history in Stafford County Development puts long-abandoned cemeteries in complicated position... 03/28/2003 California Judge voids OK for Catholic school on burial site 03/28/2003 London mourners take offence at religious recruitment Complaints about Jehovah's Witnesses approaching mourners at Allum Lane Cemetery in Elstree... 03/28/2003 Famous casket company to close by May 2 03/27/2003 Stewart Enterp/Hldr: Co Shrs Closed Up 3.1% Dissident shareholder asked company to reconsider the candidacy of two board nominees... 03/27/2003 Marsellus Casket plant might close Meeting scheduled with workers to learn the fate of the 131-year-old company... 03/27/2003 Missouri Supreme Court Case Over Caskets The question is, whether casket-buyers should have to pay state and local sales taxes... 03/27/2003 Class Action Status In Tri-State Crematory Cases May Be Revoked In Tennessee State Court 03/27/2003 Funerals buyout is best deal Britain's Dignity Funerals has grown to become the market leader in its sector, with turnover around £112 million a year... 03/27/2003 British undertaker brothers jailed for funeral scam Directors of Asian Funeral Services at WJ Murray and Sons pocketed the proceeds from 121 ceremonies after a dispute over profit sharing... 03/27/2003 Tombstone on NJ sidewalk is a mystery Street sweepers found a tombstone on the sidewalk,but so far have failed in efforts to find its previous resting place 03/27/2003 Chinese told to visit online cemeteries Several graveyards have launched websites where virtual respect can be paid during April festival... 03/27/2003 At Military Mortuary, a Solemn Duty to the Fallen Combat in Iraq Brings Death Home To Delaware Base... 03/26/2003 Funeral chain Alderwoods posts $234M loss 03/26/2003 Resting in peace after tragic deaths They are buried in the oldest part of a cemetery few know exists... 03/26/2003 Rectifying 'science run amok': Chicago museum returning remains to tribe in Canada 03/26/2003 Anderson Funeral Homes sewer hookup approved 03/26/2003 Nothing to probe on funeral parlor, says dad Regarding violations committed prior the issuance of permit... 03/26/2003 ALDERWOODS GROUP form 8-K 03/26/2003 ALDERWOODS GROUP Annual Report (SEC form 10-K) 03/26/2003 Cremation industry makes changes The gruesome scene at Tri-State shocked America... 03/26/2003 At Military Mortuary, a Solemn Duty to the Fallen Combat in Iraq Brings Death Home To Delaware Base... 03/26/2003 Families struggle to preserve, restore forgotten cemetery What do you do with |