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06/2002 - 09/2002


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Taking the grim out of reaper
Baby boomers are putting a new, often merrier, spin on last rites...
09/30/2002


If you prefer: A woman's touch after life too
It was CEO and owner Dave Daly who got the women-only idea while visiting Australia with his wife...
09/30/2002


Hillenbrand Industries Intends To Appeal Jury Verdict In Antitrust Case
09/30/2002


Funeral industry maverick goes his own way, cuts cost of dying
Bob Davis is offering, to quote his newspaper ad, a 'Free Casket...'
09/30/2002


Death the ‘natural flow of life’
If there’s anything real about life, it’s death...
09/30/2002


The Fool School: Plan funerals before you have to
Be smart and plan for your death and the deaths of loved ones now...
09/30/2002


Dying with individuality
Burials in Interior Alaska are somewhat freer, a bit more quirky than in the Lower 48...
09/30/2002


Cost of dying
Pastor drives down price of burial in the Bush...
09/30/2002


Sunset’s renewed melodies
The sweet new sounds of the Singing Tower certainly lightened the hearts of dozens...
09/30/2002


Mortician's wife gets year in jail
A judge sentenced the wife of a Hackensack funeral home owner for trying to defraud two insurance companies...
09/30/2002


County gets money for crematory cleanup
Walker County will receive an additional $100,000 from the state for expenses incurred...
09/27/2002


Casket Maker Sees Bright Future
Regardless of the economy, people will get sick and die...
09/27/2002


Veteran's ashes lost by Neptune Society, family's lawsuit says
Where is Louis Albert DeLuca?
09/27/2002


Funeral home company offers free service to fire people, law enforcement
09/27/2002


Funeral home hearing continued until Oct. 30
The Arkansas Burial Association Board continued the Rumph-Owers Funeral Home hearing...
09/27/2002


Dowser looks for unmarked graves
Glenn Brewer can find a water line buried 20 feet in the ground or a dead body, your choice...
09/27/2002


Funeral directors defend processions
Many funeral directors are noticing a growing lack of respect...
09/27/2002


Possible graves found
Pioneer cemetery may be in Xenia...
09/27/2002


Millvale funeral director charged with theft of funds
09/27/2002


Hillenbrand sees growth again after lower quarter
09/26/2002


Service Corporation International Announces Completion of Exchange Offer
09/26/2002


Review board seeking online comments
The Legislative Partnership Committee for 2003 is a funeral/cemetery review coalition...
09/26/2002


Parents plan new funeral after mistake by hospital
A Buena Vista couple received the body of their infant girl eight days after burying a baby boy...
09/26/2002


Committee supports bid to declare cemetery a landmark
Westwood Memorial Park is where many of old Hollywood's elite are buried...
09/26/2002


One man's good deed is another's vandalism
Cleanup work done at a Henry County pioneer cemetery has resulted in a vandalism complaint...
09/26/2002


Grandchildren’s Canadian flag snatched from cemetery
09/26/2002


Volunteers work to preserve Calvary Cemetery headstones
Calvary Cemetery near White Earth had its first burial in 1869...
09/26/2002


Saying goodbye to family
About 50 people visited the cemetery on National Pet Memorial Day...
09/26/2002


Stewart Enterprises Announces the Completion of the Sale of Its French Operations and Further Debt Reduction
09/25/2002


Spirited alums back on campus - forever
Rising requests for interment on college grounds raise needed cash...
09/25/2002


Livermore Scouts go through Escape School
One-hour presentation sponsored by Dignity Memorial affiliated homes and cemeteries...
09/25/2002


Families get wrong remains
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has discovered two cases in which the wrong remains were returned...
09/25/2002


Hospital's release of wrong body called rare event
09/25/2002


Digging Into Grave Issues
Special exhibit entitled Respectful Remembrance: Mourning and Burial in Elmhurst
09/25/2002


Call for 'opt out' donor scheme
All adults should be considered potential organ donors...
09/25/2002


Grown-over cemetery all that remains of Peterborough
A Civil War veteran's post can be seen poking out of a pile of dead tree branches...
09/25/2002


Dedication of Civil War grave markers
Seven Union soldiers, whose remains have been buried somewhere within the confines of Greenshade Cemetery...
09/25/2002


Revolutionary war veteran remembered
The war veteran was buried in Harrison's Milam Cemetery in 1851...
09/25/2002


Townsfolk dig up history
You can't resurrect the dead...
09/25/2002


Graves tell an Aids story
City cemeteries rapidly filling up with young victims of pandemic...
09/25/2002


Funeral, burial service lays pets to rest
If all dogs go to heaven, Chester Yeargan can help them get there in style...
09/25/2002


Cemetery begins funeral webcasts
People unable to attend funeral services can now see their loved ones farewelled via the internet...
09/24/2002


Funeral director charged in prepaid burial scam
A funeral director was arrested on charges that he stole at least $53,000...
09/24/2002


$1.7m award set in bias suit
Ex-Fresno funeral home worker cited anti-Armenian slurs...
09/24/2002


POWs/MIAs honored at cemetery
Georgia's 892 former prisoners of war and its 592 military service members still unaccounted for were honored...
09/24/2002


How much regulation for roadside memorials?
Roadside memorials are popping up in increasing numbers...
09/24/2002


Prepaid funerals alleged cause of fraud
09/24/2002


Canadian vicar under fire for dressing as Elvis
Often known as Elvis Priestley, Reverend Baxter was recently banned from the pulpit...
09/24/2002


National cemetery land purchase final
Plans have been in the works for more than a year...
09/24/2002


St. Mary's Church dedicates memorial cross
There was no cross in the cemetery...
09/24/2002


County plans to cash in when residents cash out
Not even death is protection against rising prices...
09/24/2002


'It's always going to be protected'
The cemetery is one reason Houghton put a conservation easement on his 110 acres...
09/24/2002


Cemetery falls prey to vandalism
Vandals struck at Saint Lawrence Cemetery over the weekend, toppling more than a dozen gravestones...
09/24/2002


Vase stolen from Hank Williams' gravesite
09/24/2002


Ashes to ashes ... dust to diamonds
Britons turn to US firms that make cremated remains into gemstones, paintings or coral reefs...
09/23/2002


GBI admits mix-up in identifying bodies
The mistake resulted in wrong remains being returned to two families...
09/23/2002


Grave new world could stay on ice
A new environmentally-friendly way of disposing of corpses has been invented to replace burial and burial...
09/23/2002


Kincers answer the call
Richmond funeral home helps with sending 10 Hondurans home...
09/23/2002


Ex-funeral director charged with stealing from clients
Allegheny County detectives and Millvale police Friday arrested a former Millvale funeral director...
09/23/2002


Cemetery Aims To Serve Jewish Community
Trinity Memorial Gardens hopes to attract more Jewish customers with the completion of its Beit Olam section...
09/23/2002


Church gives cemetery to town as historic property
09/23/2002


Attica man takes historic cemetery restoration project upon himself
09/23/2002


Family makes Memory Hill Cemetery a personal project
The Campbell family's favorite pastime is walking among the graves...
09/23/2002


Pet cemetery plans are buried after vote
A radical plan to allow the burial of pets alongside their owners at a cemetery has been shelved...
09/23/2002


Homeless man hurls headstone at traffic
09/23/2002


Stewart Enterprises Chairman Buys 10,000 More Shares
09/21/2002


Russian rights group finds mass-killings site
Searchers' motivation "to have a place where they can come and remember their dear ones..."
09/21/2002


Hillenbrand Industries to Provide 2003 Earnings Guidance on September 26, 2002
09/21/2002


Chicago Teamster Funeral Directors, Drivers Ratify Contract
09/20/2002


Tri-State Crematory: Tip ignored for 10 months
66 bodies added after sheriff told...
09/20/2002


Class-action brief filed in Tri-State case
Families’ attorneys seek to consolidate cases against Tri-State Crematory, funeral homes...
09/20/2002


'Serenity" Park may Serve as Cemetery
City officials are looking at converting the parking lot where the remains of hundreds of 9/11's unidentified victims are kept...
09/20/2002


Burial Threat
The British government is considering new death certification procedures...
09/20/2002


Museums share near-death experiences
Exhibits spotlight the history of funerals...
09/20/2002


Structure for urns means flexibility
For several years cemetery officials have been addressing the lack of cemetery land available...
09/20/2002


Rest easy, buying grave won't put you under
Waukesha employees may be able to land cemetery plots using payment plan...
09/20/2002


Hallowed ground - Church restoring forgotten cemetery
09/20/2002


Thieves Show No Respect for the Dead
Theives in Bulawayo are stealing tombstones from cemeteries and are re-engraving them for resale...
09/20/2002


Crematorium Plan 'Huge Benefit' to Both Sides of Border
09/20/2002


Lynn University gives up funeral program accreditation
09/19/2002


Body at Menorah exhumed for testing
Investigators exhumed the body of a man to determine whether his DNA matches human bones found...
09/19/2002


Family Had Memorial Service, Then Learned Cremains Were Bogus
09/19/2002


Service Corporation International Announces Final Extension of Its Offer To Exchange 7.70% Notes Due 2009 for Existing 6% Notes Due 2005
09/19/2002


Carriage Services Names Joseph Saporito as Chief Financial Officer
09/19/2002


Neptune Society Announces The Amendment Of Its Form 10-K To Remove Going Concern Qualification In Audit Report
09/19/2002


Funeral home operator charged with destroying graves
09/19/2002


TV show features storyline in crematory case
A popular TV crime drama will kick off with a storyline similar to that of the Tri-State Crematory investigation...
09/19/2002


Oversight for a Final Passage
A group of Maryland legislators has tried to pass crematory legislation...
09/19/2002


Female college students pledge cremation after death
A total of 3,000 female college students are scheduled to take part in a ceremony today...
09/19/2002


More pricey resting place
Land prices in downtown Orlando neighborhoods have been skyrocketing for years...
09/19/2002


Museums share near-death experiences
Bringing burial-preparation customs out of the funeral parlor and into the gallery space...
09/19/2002


Navajo code talker spends lonely eternity at National Cemetery
A solitary story about a hero’s grave that no one has been known to visit...
09/19/2002


Marion County OKs Muslim cemetery
09/19/2002


Farmhouse to become funeral home
The proprietors plan to offer low-cost funerals...
09/19/2002


Maldwyn's grave effort scoops award
A 70-year-old Mid Wales man who has devoted the last 32 years to caring for his community chapel and graveyard...
09/19/2002


Cemetery bans wind chimes after mourners complain
09/19/2002


Boca school closing mortuary program after embalming scandal
09/18/2002


Holly Township selected for VA cemetery
Feds buy 544-acre rural site to serve Michigan's veterans...
09/18/2002


Ottawa Funeral Director Receives Award
Every year, the Ontario Funeral Service Association honours extraordinary individuals for their contributions to funeral service...
09/18/2002


Sexy pinups sell coffins for funeral home
An Italian funeral home is trying to make the afterlife a tad more tempting...
09/18/2002


Menoche gets work release
Convicted former Woonsocket funeral director will spend his prison sentence working during the day to pay restitution...
09/18/2002


Cemetery tops graves contest
A cemetery at Newtown has won a national competition...
09/18/2002


Committee to consider cemetery's bid for landmark status
09/18/2002


Discovery of cemetery prompts search for family
09/18/2002


Cemetery fined for 'shoddy work'
Australia's largest cemetery has been fined $30,000 for unsafe work practices after a grave collapsed...
09/18/2002


Police arrest three for allegedly toppling headstones
Three men were arrested and charged with going on a drug- and alcohol-fueled vandalism spree...
09/18/2002


Attorneys Say Tri-State Crematory Abuses Go Back To 1982
09/17/2002


A trend outside the box
Perpetua Inc. hopes to eventually go nationwide with its near-theater-quality sets...
09/17/2002


Frozen in Time
Preserving bodies for the future - fact or fiction?
09/17/2002


California body takes unexpected detour to Greece
Weeping relatives only discovered the mix-up when they opened the casket and found a stranger inside...
09/17/2002


African cemetery may be on Key West beach
The graves are those of Africans who died in 1860 after being freed by the U.S. Navy...
09/17/2002


Higher fees for burials at city cemetery all but certain
Woodland City Councilmembers on Tuesday will consider raising burial fees at historic Woodland Cemetery...
09/17/2002


County's body disposal costs increase
The number of unclaimed dead bodies in Hernando County is increasing...
09/17/2002


Belmont funeral home burns
Cause not yet known, but arson is possibility, officials say...
09/17/2002


Theme Funerals: A trend outside the box
Themed bereavement services could be the future of the funeral industry...
09/16/2002


Manhattan is the monument
09/16/2002


East Palo Alto man's body flown to Greece instead of Mexico
09/16/2002


Unitas funeral services expected to tie up traffic
09/16/2002


Three plaintiffs face cemetery lawsuit with resolve
Managers of the Menorah Gardens face the worst kind of damage control...
09/16/2002


Canadians Unveil Sept. 11 Memorial
It bears the names of the 23 Canadians killed in the attacks...
09/16/2002


Corpse scares off burglars trying to ransack funeral parlour
09/16/2002


Death Becomes Them
Pet Preservation Is the Latest Thing in the Taxidermy World...
09/16/2002


Group works to fix city cemetery
Two governors and five mayors are buried in Manchester’s Valley Cemetery...
09/16/2002


Thomasville City Cemetery Museum hopes to rise from humble beginnings
09/16/2002


Jewish cemetery restored
Many viewed the repaired section of the cemetery for the first time since vandals desecrated graves in July...
09/16/2002


Sprindale Cemetery has sights on cannon
Activists try to 'shame' Civil War group into giving back artillery...
09/16/2002


Cemetery upkeep worries mother
Kling wants to see the infant plots at Blue Springs Cemetery taken care of better...
09/16/2002


Funeral home alive and well
Rumors started last weekend when a real estate sign was posted on the property...
09/16/2002


40th Circuit Court Lawsuit Filed In Tri-State Matter
09/13/2002


Class Action Settlement: California Consumers Recover $3.75 Million for Deteriorating Caskets
09/13/2002


Woman questioned in connection with funeral home murders files claim against the city of Hudson
09/13/2002


Funeral industry attracts college graduates
Everyone must die one day, and thus the funeral industry is eternal by nature...
09/13/2002


Ex-Wilmington funeral home owner sentenced for $140,000 tax evasion
09/13/2002


A final place of rest
Sometimes animals can bring a smile to even the darkest day...
09/13/2002


Veterans cemetery dedicated
Hundreds gathered for the groundbreaking of one of the state's four new veterans cemeteries...
09/13/2002


Historic find may put end to cemetery plan
A finger bone, which may be from the Iron Age has been uncovered...
09/13/2002


Found tombstone heads to cemetery outside Hillsboro
Eddie Owens says there's no mystery about a tombstone turning up at the maintenance building...
09/13/2002


Cemetery fence plan cut back
A wrought-iron and stone-pier fence planned will be scaled back to chain link to save money...
09/13/2002


Marker Set for Unidentified Victims
A five-sided granite marker will stand over a shared grave at Arlington National Cemetery...
09/12/2002


Dignity ruled at WTC ruin
Syracuse funeral director Thomas Shepardson took 500 of his fellow parishioners to ground zero Wednesday night...
09/12/2002


Local Woman Helped Grieving Families
Ann Yager Hamlin was in school when the terrorists melted Manhattan on Sept. 11...
09/12/2002


In cemetery visit, all is made right
Sarah Tyvand woke up, remembered it was 9/11 and went to talk to her father...
09/12/2002


Cemetery boys too young to face court
Two boys who have admitted damaging 150 graves in the baby section of a cemetery cannot be prosecuted...
09/12/2002


Coping with Death
Family fighting worsens the pain of losing a loved one...
09/12/2002


National cemetery taking shape in Elgin
Aboveground work is now taking place at the Fort Sill National Cemetery...
09/12/2002


Planners OK funeral home relocation plan
The owner of an Easton-based funeral home received a favorable recommendation...
09/12/2002


Hillenbrand Industries financials
09/11/2002


Carriage Services financials
09/11/2002


Victims' Names Read at Ground Zero
Silence fell on ground zero Wednesday morning...
09/11/2002


Ground Zero is Not Now, Never Will Be 'Empty Place'
Disaster. Tremendous courage. Heartbreak. Loss...
09/11/2002


Services recall terror attacks
Services in remembrance of those who died are to be held across the region...
09/11/2002


Sept. 11: A year, and a day
Grandparents keep fallen hero’s memory alive...
09/11/2002


Wall pays tribute to the victims
Gayle Quick placed a yellow flower at the foot of the Sept 11 memorial wall at Webb-Freer Funeral Home...
09/11/2002


Gardner funeral director remembers weeks spent last September at ground zero
09/11/2002


Fighting more than fire
He journeyed to Ground Zero, retrieving remains which included his best friend...
09/11/2002


Official Count of Sept. 11 Victims
09/11/2002


HOGS Pay Tribute to Vietnam Wall Replica In Willis
Motorcycle riders escort the Vietnam Wall of Experience to the Houston National Cemetery...
09/11/2002


Stewart Enterprises sells Cocheria Parana
09/11/2002


Clinton donates $200 to south Alabama cemetery
09/11/2002


Lawsuit filed over cremated remains found in basement
The complaint filed seeks unspecified damages, including punitive damages...
09/11/2002


Man dies at cemetery while visiting wife's grave
A 79-year-old man visiting his wife's grave was found dead in the cemetery...
09/11/2002


FTC Files Amicus Brief Opposing Barriers to Internet Casket Sales
09/10/2002


Public mourning cemetery lease
Demand for less traditional funeral services has left cemetery owners with extra land...
09/10/2002


Strangers buried in family plot, couple alleges
09/10/2002


Lawsuit filed over cremated remains found in basement
09/10/2002


Marsh charges bound to grand jury
All but one of the 398 felony charges against Brent Marsh were bound over to a Walker County grand jury...
09/10/2002


Deliveryman began probe of crematory
It is now clear how authorities came to know about Ray Brent Marsh and the staggering count of bodies...
09/10/2002


Chapel at Ground Zero symbol of memory, hope
Lovely St. Paul's a spontaneous shrine on 9/11 eve...
09/10/2002


Helping to heal
Local mortician makes five trips to Ground Zero to help identify victims, bring closure to families...
09/10/2002


Boys sought over baby graves vandalism
Footage of two boys seen in a cemetery shortly before 150 child graves were desecrated was released...
09/10/2002


Clean-up of vandalised child graves begins
Grieving parents yesterday began the grim task of repairing more than 150 child graves...
09/10/2002


Crematorium official resigns over 'outburst'
The service was thought to have over-run by a few minutes...
09/10/2002


Relic of an era when no body was safe
In the wicked old days, body-snatchers did a thriving trade...
09/10/2002


Family Holds On to Past
Subdivisions keep closing in on old burial plot...
09/10/2002


Woodland showcases its history
Through leisurely tours of the city's cemetery and some of its older, grander streets...
09/10/2002


Legion Asks for Flag Fund Support
In excess of 500 flags are cared for by the Legion...
09/10/2002


Masons Put Cemetery's Papers into Database
Bill Best didn’t anticipate getting involved with final remains and graveyard plots...
09/10/2002


Cemetery finds ability to extend land by 15 acres
Natchez National Cemetery has tried for 20 years to buy more land for expansion...
09/10/2002


Records show crematory owner kept detailed log of property
An affidavit filed in a lawsuit against Marsh suggests he kept a detailed log of where the bodies were buried on the property...
09/09/2002


Stewart Enterprises posts loss, to sell Argentine ops
09/09/2002


Stewart Enterprises Reports Third Quarter 2002 Results and Strategy for Future Growth
09/09/2002


At crash site of Flight 93, crowds build a memorial
09/09/2002


Memorial honors 9-11 victims
Monument to those who died unveiled at emotional ceremony...
09/09/2002


On hallowed ground
Dave Barry recounts how America remembers heroes...
09/09/2002


Sept. 11 memorial events planned locally
The American Red Cross, Welch Funeral Home and Mississippi State University will host public memorial services...
09/09/2002


'Dedicate ourselves anew'
Governor thanks state heroes at Sept 11 memorial service...
09/09/2002


Just hearsing around
Funeral home auction brings out bidders...
09/09/2002


'Death tax' sparks criticism in Purcell
Police Chief Alex Oblein is making changes in the department's free funeral escort service...
09/09/2002


'Going out in style' Antique hearse brought out of retirement
A horse-drawn hearse owned by the founder of Grove Funeral Home was used in a funeral procession...
09/09/2002


Parents' disgust at grave attacks
Grieving parents of babies whose graves have been desecrated at a Bristol cemetery say they are disgusted...
09/09/2002


Proposed racetrack surrounds family cemetery
Surely there are some West Virginians who would love to spend eternity at a NASCAR track...
09/09/2002


San Marcos Saves Pioneer Cemetery by a Split Decision
09/09/2002


Dispute over maps slows cemetery suit
A hearing to determine whether to expand the Menorah Gardens lawsuit into a class action is stalled...
09/06/2002


Putnam Valley Plans 9/11 Service at Rose Hills
09/06/2002


Replica Statues Honor Firefighters
Funeral professionals have paid tribute to several area fire departments with smaller versions of the large bronze cast that salutes fallen firefighters in New York City....
09/06/2002


When diamonds really are your best friend
09/06/2002


Closing Down the Estate
When a loved one dies, somebody must step up to the plate to handle all the resulting tax issues...
09/06/2002


Four die in SC funeral procession wreck
09/06/2002


Tombstones given tender repairs
Sometimes, good can result from something bad...
09/06/2002


Survivor remembers fateful day
A slow, steady drumbeat echoed through Arlington National Cemetery...
09/06/2002


Grave concern over windmills
A new trend in decorating graves - the placing of small windmills on headstones - has led to accusations of heartlessness after one authority ordered them to be removed...
09/06/2002


Cemetery suspect says judge biased, wants new lawyer
Man accused of stealing women's pocketbooks at two Valley cemeteries...
09/06/2002


Historic plaques okayed at cemetery
The installation of plaques marking the history of the Eureka Springs City Cemetery was approved by the Cemetery Commission...
09/06/2002


Toy Tributes Ease the Pain
Kind hearted Stirling folk have stepped in to repair the grave of a five-year-old drowning victim...
09/06/2002


Pyre woman lives on in death
Proud legacy as the only Indian woman to have ever cremated bodies...
09/06/2002


One-stop farewell
On-site funeral home planned for Warren Cemetery and Mausoleum...
09/05/2002


Hillenbrand Industries Announces Dividend of $0.23 Per Share
09/05/2002


Service Corporation International Modifies Offer to Exchange 7.70% Notes Due 2009 for Existing 6% Notes Due 2005
09/05/2002


Man's Visit to His Future Grave Kills Him
09/05/2002


Southwest Florida city nixes backyard interment
09/05/2002


Four More Bodies Identified At Tri-State Crematory
09/05/2002


Company knew of grave desecration in 1998
A top executive acknowledged that the company knew in March 1998 of grave crowding...
09/05/2002


VA Announces Land Purchase for Future National Cemetery
The Department of Veterans Affairs has purchased 313 acres in southern Palm Beach County...
09/05/2002


S. Florida's first veterans cemetery will begin burials within two years
South Florida’s first veterans’ cemetery also will be the first in the state to 'fast-track' burials...
09/05/2002


Landslide concerns force Rose Hills to move coffins
Officials at Rose Hills Memorial Park are notifying 5,000 residents by mail of the cemetery's plans to dig up and relocate 1,500 coffins and grave sites...
09/05/2002


Honoring the Stars and Stripes
Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1498 in Halfmoon put a donated postal mailbox out in front of their post...
09/05/2002


Cemetery Mix Up
Burial takes place without woman's remains...
09/05/2002


Buried City Bills Surface
The city of Brunswick says it needs more money to care for cemeteries...
09/05/2002


Black cemetery in city network
Woodlawn Cemetery is slated today to join the city's municipal cemetery system...
09/05/2002


Looking for calm after the storm
By 1985, he became a licensed funeral director himself and heir apparent to the thriving business his parents started from scratch..
09/05/2002


Morticians' mayoral bids go national
Bernie Platt and his son, Voorhees Mayor Harry Platt are both hoping to win November elections...
09/05/2002


Menorah Gardens executive testifies that he didn't find remains in woods
The man in charge of Menorah Gardens cemeteries found no bones in the same place where state investigators later found human remains...
09/04/2002


Judge grills cemetery supervisor
A judge asked a Menorah Gardens supervisor why he didn't do more when he heard allegations that graves had been desecrated...
09/04/2002


Candidates Weigh In on a Memorial
Gov. George Pataki said that a World Trade Center memorial 'has to be the centerpiece of whatever we do...'
09/04/2002


Sept. 11 event in Newton, Waltham
Waltham and Newton are holding a series of remembrance events to formally mark the first anniversary...
09/04/2002


Funeral home offering free service arrangements for public servants killed in line of duty
09/04/2002


Orange Oks Burial of Ashes
The Town Plan and Zoning Commission approved for the Church of the Good Shepherd to continue interring the cremated ashes on the church grounds...
09/04/2002


Cemeteries make room for more
Dying to get into the cemetery may be a bad joke...
09/04/2002


Former mortician returns to biker past for artist future
Once upon a time in an upper Michigan town he just calls Mayberry...
09/04/2002


He grants perfect strangers their dying wishes
Good Samaritan looks out for those who are elderly and alone...
09/04/2002


Community empties pockets to honor teen with headstone
A fund-raising effort raised more than $1,500 in less than two months to help pay for the headstone at Shiloh Cemetery...
09/04/2002


Paranormal investigation group offers to help clean up vandalized cemetery
A group normally associated with the paranormal is offering very-real, hands-on help in cleaning and repairing the Old Stone Church cemetery...
09/04/2002


Cemetery tour to highlight past
Volunteers will point out significant sites and share information on the community's many founders and pioneers buried there...
09/04/2002


Coon dog festival attracts 300 to canine cemetery
More than 300 people showed up at a canine cemetery to pay homage to their departed hunting hounds...
09/04/2002


Cemetery is haven for many thoughts
You'd expect that everyone Joe Cattarin comes into contact with in his job is in one of two states of mind -- grieving, or recalling fond memories of loved ones...
09/04/2002


9-11 gift in granite
Area company engraves memorial...
09/03/2002


Remembering lives of Pentagon's 'lost'
Five of the Sept. 11 victims lost more than their lives...
09/03/2002


Roadside Memorials: Centuries-old tradition can stir controversy
09/03/2002


Wayuu burial rite fades
Reburying dead, alcohol consumption, fading from Indian culture...
09/03/2002


Long Wait Ends for Vets
South Florida's military veterans will soon have a final resting place much closer to home...
09/03/2002


Let Church Bury Ashes
'Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,' except in Orange at the Church of the Good Shepherd...
09/03/2002


Disciplinary Actions Taken Against Algee
The Illinois Department of Professional Regulation has taken disciplinary action against Delmar M. Algee...
09/03/2002


Final journey for ashes
The unclaimed remains of 34 people are to be scattered in the River Clyde...
09/03/2002


North of the river: Book on cemetery details life
The dead rest peacefully at Gillette Cemetery...
09/03/2002


Family Fights to Preserve Burial Ground
It was broken headstones that finally broke the hearts of the Bugg family...
09/03/2002


Editorial: Dead woman should be allowed to rest in peace
We’re happy the family of Hattie Bergeler-Moringiello prevailed over her husband in the struggle over her mortal remains...
09/03/2002


Day of the dogs: Only the best rest at cemetery for man’s best friend
For most Shoals residents, Monday was a day to honor America's working men and women..
09/03/2002


New section of city cemetery opens
A new section of the Nogales City Cemetery officially has opened and the first funeral was held at the site Friday...
09/03/2002


Greenleaf Cemetery Association Must Replace Stolen Equipment
Six weeks after Greenleaf Cemetery was burglarized, the nearly $3,000 worth of tools and lawn-keeping equipment are still missing...
09/03/2002


Swartz Creek: Society works on design for new sign at historical cemetery
The Swartz Creek Area Historical Society is working with city officials to create a new decorative sign for the city's historical cemetery...
09/03/2002


Giuliani: Memorial Must Fill Ground Zero
Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says in a published essay that he is still as angry as he was the day terrorist hijackers crashed two jetliners into the Twin Towers...
09/03/2002


Hearing details burial errors
A high-ranking cemetery executive testified on Thursday that he visited the Menorah Gardens cemetery in 1999...
08/30/2002


Witness: Bet placed on finding remains
The top Florida official won a $10 bet when he correctly predicted a buried body wouldn't be found where it was supposed be...
08/30/2002


Families angry with Marsh protection
08/30/2002


A Pall Over Georgia
There is no law in Georgia against degrading a dead body...
08/30/200


Hearing to determine funeral home's future
The Arkansas Burial Association Board will hold a formal hearing to determine the future of the Rumph-Owers Funeral Home Burial Association...
08/30/2002


Granite industry questions Chinese trading methods
Tombstones manufactured in China and shipped to the United States are beginning to make serious inroads into the American market...
08/30/2002


Uncovering Buried History
While his friends are fishing, hunting or playing golf, Earl Colvin is most likely searching for grave sites...
08/30/2002


Construction crews watchful as they work near old cemetery
The Arapahoe County coroner won't be surprised if construction crewscall to report they've unearthed a couple of bodies...
08/30/2002


Goodlett Cemetery Reunion Today
The Goodlett Cemetery will be recognized in a ceremony to kick off the Goodlett reunion today...
08/30/2002


Board Offering Reward for Help In Catching Vandals
Vandals have knocked over, moved and broken gravestones at the Oxford Community Cemetery for the third time since June...
08/30/2002


Progress being marked on new Spooner Veterans Memorial
It has been a long undertaking, with a lot of work still ahead...
08/30/2002


Ancient bronze bells unearthed
Cambodian deminers have unearthed two bronze bells dated at between 2,200 and 2,400 years old...
08/30/2002


Workers describe exhuming burials at Menorah Gardens
A former gravedigger testified he was ordered three times to unearth remains...
08/29/2002


Ex-cemetery worker tells of bones
Testified that he 'saw somebody's skeleton breaking off and bones flying over the place'...
08/29/2002


Marsh out of jail, Walker County stays quiet
The news out of Walker County Wednesday was that there was none...
08/29/2002


Marsh release riles Niles kin of dead man
Remains of Teresa Earl's brother were among the 339 bodies found...
08/29/2002


Funeral Home Says LaShea Marsh Did Not Transport Bodies
08/29/2002


Hillenbrand Industries to Announce Fiscal 2003 Earnings
Hillenbrand Industries, Inc. is sponsoring an investors conference...
08/29/2002


First-Ever 'Funeral Service Consumer Day' Set for San Antonio
Consumer Day will feature educational stations where consumers can ask NFDA funeral directors questions and obtain literature...
08/29/2002


Pentagon memorial entries come from around world
08/29/2002


Funeral home plans 9-11 services
A memorial to the fallen from terrorist attacks will go up in the east yard of Fremont's Beams Funeral Home...
08/29/2002


British Hindus seek to create a symbolic River Ganges
08/29/2002


Family to get victim’s remains
Thanks to a little-known law that says a spouse who has been arrested on charges in a domestic violence-related death has no right to the victim’s body...
08/29/2002


Want to be a Millionaire? Open a Flower Shop!
Just pop down to the local cemetery, nick a few bunches of daffs off the graves and then leave them at the scene of the crime...
08/29/2002


Sorn Up for Cemetery Award
An Ayrshire cemetery has made it to the final of a national graveyard competition two years in a row...
08/29/2002


Lafayette club seeks ghosts, signs of paranormal
08/29/2002


Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Cuts Down Vandalized Trees
08/29/2002


Burial plots in Athens to increase in price
The cost of being buried in one of the city's historic cemeteries is increasing...
08/29/2002


Urban plantings prove hardiness rule
Visit an old cemetery and see what is growing there....
08/29/2002


Township, police bury woman found in cellar
Mary Albaum’s son is objecting to the funeral, saying his mother wanted to be buried in Chicago....
08/29/2002


Former Funeral Employee Offers Damaging Testimony on Menorah Gardens
08/28/2002


Marsh's long day brings freedom, fear
A crowd began assembling in the jail parking lot...
08/28/2002


697 Bodies Sent To Tri-State Since 1997
Authorities have said they found 33 uncremated bodies at the site...
08/28/2002


Church ordered to halt burials
Since 1981, the Church of the Good Shepherd has been interring cremated ashes on the church grounds...
08/28/2002


Alleged Cemetery Victims Seek Class-Action Status
Menorah Gardens will head to court this morning for a hearing...
08/28/2002


Menorah Gardens to fight class-action lawsuit
Will argue that space problems at two cemeteries affected a limited number of graves...
08/28/2002


A Diamond Is Forver - Transcript with LifeGems CEO
08/28/2002


Pentagon recovering from effects of Sept. 11 attack
08/28/2002


Pentagon nearly ready for 9/11 anniversary
08/28/2002


Sept. 11 liberty garden being built
Dedicated to the memories of those who died in terrorist attacks...
08/28/2002


Cemetery to dedicate Sept. 11 plaque
A private cemetery in Ottawa will create a memorial amid criticisms that the federal government is doing little to recognize its dead...
08/28/2002


Sponsorship to extend to the afterlife
Graves could become advertising spaces in a Sydney cemetery...
08/28/2002


Fourth victim of lightning strike at Missouri funeral dies
08/28/2002


Cherished pets honored in cemetery
If a cherished pet is treated much like a member of its family in life, how should it be treated in death?
08/28/2002


Vandals Nearly Destroy Morton County Cemetery
08/28/2002


Haida want to bring their dead home
Members of the First Nation are travelling to a New York museum to collect 48 sets of remains...
08/28/2002


Grave Concerns
An investigation into what appeared to be an attack on Jewish tombs at Rome's Verano cemetery has unearthed a host of administrative abuses...
08/28/2002


Relatives say city's 'beautiful cemetery' neglected
The city of Muskegon Heights' maintenance Mona View Cemetery, once considered the most beautiful cemetery in the state...
08/28/2002


Girl's burial is delayed, Mix-up causes family to wait 2 hours for closure
08/28/2002


Columbiana cemetery may be expanded
Parks, Recreation and Cemetery Board voted 5-0 Monday to recommend council approve expanding burial space...
08/28/2002


Relatives Angry at State of Castle Donington Cemetery
08/28/2002


Inmates to clean up abandoned county property
The Bibb County Commission on Tuesday took steps to deal with dilapidated properties in the county...
08/28/2002


Marsh plans to post bail today
08/27/2002


Animal Memorials
How some families mourn their beloved pet's passing...
08/27/2002


County plans its first green cemetery
The dead are buried in biodegradable coffins...
08/27/2002


Live music - from the cemetery!
The non-denominational cemetery aims to provide people with an alternative to traditional burial or cremation...
08/27/2002


Cremation Or Burial in Age of HIV/Aids?
Municipalities are having to scramble to expand cemeteries...
08/27/2002


Local funeral homes challenge the chains
Campaign courting families hoped to fend off big guys...
08/26/2002


Town still searching for a cemetery
On the heels of the death of Vail's founder, the Town Council has begun again a quest for a memorial park...
08/26/2002


Local funeral home plans 24-foot tribute wall
The wall bears the names of all 3,044 known victims who perished on Sept. 11...
08/26/2002


Victim's family fights for burial in Ala.
It will be up to Florida courts to decide if the body of a slaying victim will be returned to Alabama to be buried near family members or if the man charged with murdering her can make funeral arrangements in Florida...
08/26/2002


Flag Display Honors Vets
After the horrors of Sept. 11, some found comfort from visiting a local cemetery...
08/26/2002


Funeral home director subject of probe
For allegedly swindling about 30 people...
08/26/2002


Challenge to design something different
Try converting a historic army barracks into a hotel and lecture hall or designing a funeral home...
08/26/2002


Angels all around us
Symbol of faith becomes more popular in trying times...
08/26/2002


Beer fan takes bottles to the grave
A 72-year-old who claims to have drunk nothing but beer for 30 years...
08/26/2002


Garden club donates magnolia tree to Arlington Cemetery
To memorialize victims killed at the Pentagon in the Sept. 11 attacks...
08/26/2002


Veteran's family realizes his dream of a POW memorial
A monument to prisoners of war and Americans missing in action was dedicated Friday, fulfilling the final wish of a veteran who didn't live to see it....
08/26/2002


Grave issues
Hirokazu Hasegawa believes there are no negative points in life...
08/26/2002


Film star's body to be exhumed
María Félix, the fiery film star known as 'the boss' and 'the beauty'...
08/26/2002


Scout came up with grave details
Northfield Cemetery is a capsule of history that until recently was difficult to open...
08/26/2002


Civil War graveyard forlorn and forgotten
High weeds have swallowed the weathered gravestones on the southern edge of Delaware City...
08/26/2002


Cremation sparks blaze in Attleboro
Intense heat from a body being cremated is believed to have caused a blaze...
08/23/2002


Funeral Home Operators Say Had No Reason To Suspect Marsh
08/23/2002


Legal fight begins over body
Family duels over slain Beach woman...
08/23/2002


French Mayor Bans Residents from Dying
The mayor of a French Mediterranean town is faced with a cemetery "full to bursting..."
08/23/2002


Former cemetery manager charged
The former manager was charged with stealing more than $200,000 from the cemetery...
08/23/2002


Teen found dead on day her parents picked cemetery plot for her brother
08/22/2002


Civil War vet finally gets headstone
Civil War infantryman William L. Abbey has finally received a headstone...
08/22/2002


Heartache For Families as Funerals are Delayed
Due to a massive backlog of Legionnaires' Disease tests...
08/22/2002


Grave-Wrecking `Goths' Caged
Three teenage 'Goths' who wrecked 90 graves were sentenced to seven months...
08/22/2002


Forgotten garden of remembrance
A garden of rest dedicated to the memory of Coventry civilians...
08/22/2002


Funerals go digital
Mortuary puts ceremonies on the Internet...
08/21/2002


Pentagon attack victims' families rely upon wide support network
In the months just before her daughter Alexandria was born...
08/21/2002


Man dies while working on mausoleum in Lenexa
Police found a construction worker dead after earth caved in on him...
08/21/2002


Maxson's sentence includes visit to grave
A Blue Springs man must visit the cemetery and note the anniversary of the death of his passenger...
08/21/2002


State's Old Cemeteries Allowed to Languish
More than 6,000 gravesites at Hawai'i's four state-owned cemeteries still suffer neglect and vandalism...
08/21/2002


Cemetery, residents share uneasy relations
The almost parklike atmosphere of Rose City Cemetery beckons Will Levenson on a warm mid-summer evening...
08/21/2002


Mycenaean cemetery in Vari yields rich finds
A cluster of richly furnished ancient graves dating to Mycenaean times has been discovered...
08/21/2002


Police issue alert after lethal embalming fluids stolen
Police have issued a general alert after the theft of lethal embalming liquids...
08/21/2002


Asian immigrants bringing ancestors to U.S. for reburial
08/20/2002


Paris in August: Like a Cemetery
We're in Pere Lachaise, Paris's exquisite and storied graveyard, final resting place of more than a million souls...
08/20/2002


Other sides of the other side
Americans are unique in many ways, and how they are buried is one of them...
08/20/2002


From Cremation to Diamond Creation The world's first purveyor of diamond memorials, today announced the availability of the LifeGem...
08/20/2002


National Guard tackles cemetery clean-up
The National Guard is helping restore the 15.5 acre cemetery...
08/20/2002


Family visits grave site, expresses concerns to Sheriff, Deputy Coroner
Ezell's family was concerned that another person had possibly been buried atop her remains...
08/20/2002


Probation hearing for grave robber
A convicted grave robber surrendered to face a potential life sentence...
08/20/2002


Cemetery pocketbook-theft case moved to Milford court
A Superior Court judge on Monday ordered that the state's case against a Windsor man accused of stealing purses...
08/20/2002


The Ben and Jerry's of burial grounds
Environment: Inspired by the socially conscious ice cream company, a S. Carolina doctor starts an eco-friendly cemetery...
08/19/2002


Remains May Never Be Identified
Georgia's chief medical examiner met Friday with people whose loved ones were taken to Tri-State Crematory...
08/19/2002


Peace lacking in final resting place
Tracy Alexander buried his grandmother at Restlawn Memorial Park in Jacksonville nearly four years ago -- or so he thought...
08/19/2002


Ohio Funeral Home Cremates Wrong Body
08/19/2002


Funds sought to return dead man's ashes to Mexico
08/19/2002


Bereavement award gained
Kirklees Council's bereavement service has been awarded a Charter for the Bereaved...
08/19/2002


Family visits grave site at Kelly Cemetery, expresses concerns to Sheriff, Deputy Coroner
08/19/2002


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'Work of mortician is exacting and difficult'
Back in Sri Lanka after a three-year extensive course in the USA...
08/19/2002


'Burglar tried to ransom pet's ashes he stole'
08/19/2002


Crematory investigators answer family questions
Family members hoping for more answers in the Tri-State Crematory tragedy quizzed investigators...
08/16/2002


Sympathy on the line
When there isn't enough time to send a card to relatives of the departed, at least one Medford funeral home provides e-mail option...
08/16/2002


Edgewater board OKs owners's plan for cemetery driveways
Entrances to the Edgewater-New Smyrna Cemetery are getting a facelift...
08/16/2002


Veterans cemetery secures $2.6 million federal grant
Money will be used to improve irrigation, roads...
08/16/2002


At ground zero, churches do the heavy lifting of spirits
Damaged but sturdy, they've counseled, fed, buoyed heroic efforts...
08/16/2002


Hearse Power: Going Out in Style
When Gary Totman was in first grade, his teacher asked the kids what they wanted to be when they grew up....
08/16/2002


"Call for Artists: Ashes to Art - The Second International Juried Exhibition of Urns and Vessels for Funerary Ashes"
Artists worldwide working in all media are invited to enter...
08/16/2002


Ashes at funeral home were believed lost
08/16/2002


Separate trials set for couple in funeral home threats case
An Appleton couple charged with threatening a funeral home director will have separate trials...
08/16/2002


Saying good bye to a pet
Do all dogs go to heaven?
08/16/2002


Animal owners set up trust funds for their pets
08/16/2002


Lakewood cracks down on smoke from crematories
The City Council approved an ordinance Monday night...
08/16/2002


Volunteers searching for site of Confederate soldiers' bodies
Bodies of 58 Confederate soldiers were dumped after the Battle 140 years ago...
08/16/2002


Downtown Beauty Tended By City Employee's Green Thumb
Cares for the flowers at Oakdale Cemetery...
08/16/2002


Memphis cuts costs by dumping pets
Veterinarians and pet owners are upset over a Memphis cost-cutting decision to stop incinerating animal carcasses...
08/16/2002


Restoration work under way on Ute Cemetery tombstones
Tombstone restoration is under way at Aspen's historic Ute Cemetery...
08/16/2002


Help sought for Friendship Cemetery
08/16/2002


Cemetery a link to Euharlee's early days
A vital part of Euharlee's past will be recognized Saturday after hours of hard work from the city's residents...
08/16/2002


Army building special cemetery for dogs killed in service
The Israeli military is reportedly building a lush cemetery for army dogs killed in the line of duty...
08/16/2002


Carriage Services Files Management Certifications
Officers have certified Quarterly Report...
08/15/2002


Service Corporation International Announces the Submission of Its SEC Certification and the Engagement of a Corporate Governance Expert
08/15/2002


NY Funeral directors association elects officers
08/15/2002


Miami crematorium owner loses license for losing woman's ashes
Owner accused of being in the middle of an embalming scandal with Lynn University's mortuary school...
08/15/2002


Former funeral home director pleads no contest
Former director of a Woonsocket funeral home pleaded to charges he bilked customers when his business went bust...
08/15/2002


Menoche inches close to plea deal
Paul Menoche was formally arraigned in Providence District Court yesterday; expected to admit guilt to embezzlement...
08/15/2002


Mortuary accused of improper care of body
A local family is battling a Vallejo mortuary, saying it left a deceased loved one laying around mortuary premises for almost a month...
08/15/2002


Community memorial service to remember 9/11
08/15/2002


Mother's corpse found in basement of son's home
'I had almost forgotten she was down there,' 67-year-old says....
08/15/2002


Archaeologists to halt cemetery research into poorhouse
08/15/2002


Construction timetable halts cemetery research
State archaeologists will cease analysis of 19th century graves at site of new biomedical center...
08/15/2002


Funeral in Jerusalem Cemetery - First Time in Half-Century
A Bnei Brak man was buried in first funeral the cemetery has seen in over 50 years...
08/15/2002


State to meet with crematory families
Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials will meet Thursday to update family members affected by the discovery of discarded bodies...
08/14/2002


SRV Investor Meeting
Scheduled to start Thu, Aug 15, 2002, 9:00 am Eastern...
08/14/2002


Frisbee man's ashes to take a spin
His ashes are now to be moulded into limited-edition plastic 'memorial flying discs'...
08/14/2002


Human ashes found in former funeral home
Police are investigating whether the cremated remains of more than 20 people found basement of a former funeral home were illegally disposed of...
08/14/2002


Funeral director enjoys 'rewarding' work
When people find out Dan Smith is a funeral director, he often is greeted with the same old jokes...
08/14/2002


Veteran cemetery worker found hanging from tree
A man who worked in cemeteries for more than 30 years was found dead in Cedar Lawn Cemetery...
08/14/2002


Mother grieves anew after theft of son's cremated remains
Alisa Bass just wants her son - literally, what remains of him - back...
08/14/2002


Mortician courted to challenge mayor
08/14/2002


County stuck with rising funeral costs as more indigents die
08/14/2002


Rules are broken so man's last wish, a funeral in Prague, can be fulfilled
A Florida businessman has fulfilled the last wish of his late father...
08/14/2002


Local funeral home named in lawsuit
A local funeral home was named in a lawsuit filed Friday in Allen (Ind.) Superior Court...
08/14/2002


Moody's revises Service Corp outlook to stable
08/13/2002


Matthews International Quarterly Report (SEC form 10-Q)
08/13/2002


Baby Boomers Take the Lead in Growing Trend - Funeral Planning
After watching his father struggle with funeral arrangements when his grandmother died, Jeff White decided he wouldn't let the same thing happen to him...
08/13/2002


Seniors exploring the Internet
About a third of Americans aged 55 to 64 jump online every day...
08/13/2002


'He made every minute count'
Memorial service for slain ranger...
08/13/2002


Arne Shield gets his final wish -- a viking burial at sea
08/13/2002


Britain Plans Sept. 11 Memorial Garden
08/13/2002


Giving your Body to science
It's been 10 years since Chris Garland buried her father...
08/13/2002


Family wants soldier's remains back
Nearly 60 years after his death.
08/13/2002


Veterans cemetery plans stay on track
Proceed: Proposed Mission site a go with state officials...
08/13/2002


Scout installs 17 flags to honor Confederates buried at Mount Olivet
08/13/2002


RI Pays Respect to those Who Defended It Like No Other State In the Nation
08/13/2002


A walk on the cemetery side
Historical society hosts unique event...
08/13/2002


Birch Hill cemetery has its own guardian angel
08/13/2002


Grave's location upsets family
Cemetery not set to dig anew...
08/13/2002


Gates to Curb Grave Vandals
Gates have been put up to stop car thieves damaging a Huddersfield burial ground...
08/13/2002


Plans to build veterans' burial ground in Mission on hold because of location
State law forbids the establishment or operation of a cemetery within two miles of the city limits...
08/12/2002


Veterans cemetery will take Tennesseans
A Kentucky veterans cemetery coming near the state line...
08/12/2002


Funeral family moves to Big Pine
In the last 10-12 years he's seen some big changes in how families and individuals deal with death...
08/12/2002


DEATH WITH DIGNITY: Express end-of-life wishes to family
It is essential that we have conversations about life and death with those who will carry out our last wishes...
08/12/2002


A Chinese Crematory's Work Is a Matter of Life
Yishan Crematory, where the burn team ferries as many as 400 bodies a day on mortorized lifts to 24 incinerators...
08/12/2002


Burial costs in NP raise concern
The death of a loved one is a very stressful time for family and friends...
08/12/2002


Couple take on monumental task
Merrillville couple catalog Lake and Porter county cemeteries....
08/12/2002


'Residents' of Roselawn
Cemetery the final resting place for some of city's biggest names and a few Gypsies, too...
08/12/2002


La Crosse man tries to call in his final marker
A World War II veteran's 'dying wish' is to have a government-issued bronze marker on his grave at Oak Grove Cemetery in La Crosse...
08/12/2002


A real death mimics Eleanor Rigby's
Eleanor Rigby became real to me today...
08/12/2002


Condition of Pineville cemetery upsets families
For two years, Kimberly Woods has watched as the cemetery where her father is buried deteriorated...
08/12/2002


Artist's glass-urn exhibit began with mom's death
08/12/2002


Firefighter finally at rest
Nearly a year after his death in the World Trade Center...
08/12/2002


Somerset officials attempt to protect 'hallowed ground'
Where a Boeing 757 hurtled toward the ground 11 months ago...
08/12/2002


Plan for Fort Bliss Cemetery is Disgraceful
When we think of death, we think of darkness -- a darkness so deep that no light can pierce it...
08/12/2002


Funeral Parlor 'Corpse' Was Alive
08/12/2002


Rest not in peace in local cemeteries
Miserable situation in Israeli cemeteries...
08/12/2002


State Denies Protection for Marsh
The governor’s office declined to provide state protection hours after lawyer demanded it because of death threats...
8/09/2002


Tri-State cases coming here
The suits will return to their home districts once the pretrial portion of the cases is complete...
08/09/2002


SCI upgraded by Raymond James
08/09/2002


Former Carriage Services CFO Livengood Joins Reliant Resources as Controller
08/09/2002


Williams' executor deals blow to cremation hopes
Oldest daughter said she won't concede the fight...
08/09/2002


Pearl's Body Returned to Family
08/09/2002


Fox TV Had Cemetery All Wrong
Prime source for an investigative report was arrested this week on charges of lying to police...
08/09/2002


Remembering the past and looking to the future
Plans for the September 11 memorial day have met widespread approval, but plans to build Ground Zero are proving controversial...
08/09/2002


Veterans cemeteries in Rockland to get $70,000 more
08/09/2002


Council says cemetery location wrong for Kmart
08/09/2002


Cemetery Sexton Finds His Work an Honor
Self-described 'country boy' enjoys the beauty of his surroundings...
08/09/2002


Storm Lake Lays Unknown Infant to Rest
08/09/2002


Only a coward would steal angels from child's grave
This is to the cowards who think it's okay to steal cherished items from the cemetery plots of loved ones...
08/09/2002


Veterans Cemetery support shaky in Cameron County
08/09/2002


In reburial, Olsons hope to lay saga of father to rest
Family has disputed government claims he committed suicide in '53; Ceremony planned for today...
08/09/2002


Residents work hard to beautify Oakley Cemetery
What once was a dry barren cemetery is now becoming an oasis...
08/09/2002


Golfing, cemetery fee increases sought
Proper maintenance requires more money, managers say...
08/09/2002


Parking lot was former Catholic cemetery
The bones found at Superior Essex lot were never moved....
08/09/2002


Cemeteries alter watering
Fears of negative reaction lead to change in scheduling..
08/09/2002


Service Corp. International has $143 million quarterly loss
After charges related to the expected sale of 140 properties and other items....
08/08/2002


Hillenbrand profit falls on investment losses
08/08/2002


Theaterlike sets changing the funeral scene
The cutting edge of a national trend of personalizing funerals and viewings...
08/08/2002


Hearing Set for Crematory Operator
To determine whether case could go to a grand jury....
08/08/2002


Judge to decide on freezing or cremation for Williams
08/08/2002


Political squabbles stalling veterans cemetery
In Rio Grande Valley...
08/08/2002


Nevada's veterans prepare for Sept. 11 commemoration ceremony
08/08/2002


Court hearing set in funeral-home probe
Investigation into whereabouts of thousands of dollars invested in prepaid funeral plans at defunct Menoche Funeral Home...
08/08/2002


Old tombstone found in Priceville tracked to Lawrence cemetery
Straight from the pages of a ghost story, the old tombstone suddenly appeared through an early-morning haze...
08/08/2002


Cemetery linked to famous painter
The Lemon Bay Cemetery on State Road 776...
08/08/2002


The Catalogue of Misery at Graveyard
Vandalism at Cambusnethan Cemetery and Greenhead Moss has been a problem for years...
08/08/2002


WTC anniversary service planned
A moment of silence is to begin the 102-minute ceremony marking the one-year anniversary...
08/07/2002


Need A Lift? Call The Funeral Home
When a funeral home limo shows up at your house, it's usually not a happy time...
08/07/2002


Body Misidentified in Car Accident
Family members were ready to say their goodbyes at a funeral home...
08/07/2002


Family brings ashes back to Sewickley
As the ashes of John Jacob Ernst Weckler were placed in the ground, the joy of the mourners surrounded the burial plot...
08/07/2002


Boy Scout Troop Restores Lindley Hill Cemetery
The latest project for Boy Scout Troop 187 is all about respect...
08/07/2002


Indian woman dies on husband's funeral pyre
Following an ancient custom outlawed for more than a century....
08/07/02


Rest In Peace?
Remains founding resident lie under a crumpled marble slab hidden under thick weeds in the middle of a subdivision under construction...
08/07/2002


Confederate Burial Site Safe from Highway Project
08/07/2002


Cemetery won't be part of Sysco land deal
08/07/2002


Thirty graves at Chattaroy Cemetery damaged by vandals
08/07/2002


No charges to be filed against woman who kept husband's body in trailer
'Face of the devil' prevented her from going through with funeral arrangements...
08/07/2002


Unmarked graves are remnants of 1912 tragedy
Ninety years ago, a struggling Salem mother took the lives of her four young children and herself...
08/07/2002


Unearthing of bodies a false tale, D.A. says
A Philadelphia man told police he had been 'smoking weed every day' while digging graves at a Main Line cemetery...
08/06/2002


State May Aid Forgotten Cemeteries
Clears the way for money to be earmarked for maintaining cemeteries...
08/06/2002


Family asks court to place cemetery in receivership
Family members had exhumed the body at Mt. Carmel-Hollywood Cemetery...
08/06/2002


Angel of Hope statue dedicated in Torrington
Grieving parents come, place carnations at base...
08/06/2002


This goodbye guy has a flair for funerals
Andrew J. McGann has been planting South Side Irish for 53 years...
08/06/2002


Walnut Creek residents seek historical marker for cemetery
08/06/2002


Samaritans can help with grief
A funeral director is raising awareness about a charity helpline for those coping with bereavement over Christmas...
08/06/2002


Family tradition ends...Daughter finishes rural mail route her dad started in '39
08/06/2002


Historian tends to grave situation
Working toward getting public access to 25 known gravesites nestled deep in the Koreshan State Historic Site...
08/06/2002


Vandals Hit Heroes' Graveyard
Including graves of more than 30 who died in the Kursk nuclear-submarine accident...
08/06/2002


Stewart Enterprises Announces the Completion of the Sale of Its Canadian Operations and Adjustment to the Fair Value of Operations in Argentina
08/05/2002


Stewart Enterprises sees charge for Argentina crisis
08/05/2002


Freezing the deceased is a hot religious topic
Ted Williams apparently wanted his body to be burned or frozen, a matter of fire or ice...
08/05/2002


Midler and Dion top funeral chart in U.K.
08/05/2002


Horse-drawn funeral coach adds nostalgic touch to final journey
08/05/2002


Funeral director helps with grieving process
At the end of every funeral service he puts together, Greg Cannon has one way of knowing if he did his job correctly...
08/05/2002


'Burials' take on new life
Dealing with bereaved families was not something Don Brawley and George Frankel were looking forward to when they began their job, but it ended up being one of the unexpected benefits...
08/05/2002


The burden of death: Expenses can be heavy
If you're one of those people who'd never really thought about how much it might cost you to die, brace yourself...
08/05/2002


Modesto cremation site plans stir debate
Modesto is on the verge of getting its first crematorium -- but not without controversy...
08/05/2002


Artist creates requiem in glass for Sept. 11 victims
Glass artist William Morris didn't set out to make a statement when he began creating a series of cremation urns...
08/05/2002


Radar reveals 200 unmarked graves
What time, poverty and neglect have threatened to erase, volunteers are recovering bit by bit at the Rose Cemetery...
08/05/2002


Funeral home to unveil memorial to 9/11 victims
A memorial wall featuring the names of 3,044 people who died in the Sept. 11 attacks will be dedicated and permanently affixed to the front of Parker Funeral Service and Crematory at Tenth and Walnut streets on Wednesday morning.
08/05/2002


Former Cutler Funeral Home laid to rest
From a vantage point across the street in Bayliss Park, Bill Cutler watched the remains of the overhanging front roof of the building come crashing down.
08/05/2002


Grave-diggers 'selling dead wives'
A Chinese crime syndicate has allegedly been digging up female corpses and selling them to relatives of dead single men...
08/05/2002


Cemetery receiving renewed attention
Each Monday, the Herald takes a look back at a person or issue in the Mid-Columbia's past...
08/05/2002


Willowbrook OKs new funeral home
A vacant lot in Willowbrook soon will house a new building and service for the community.
08/05/2002


Council hears of cemetary concerns
Concern over damaged grave markers and overall maintenance of the Rosetown Cemetary has been brought to the Town's attention...
08/05/2002


Menoche to plead guilty
Former Woonsocket funeral director Paul Menoche plans to plead guilty to embezzling and other charges...
08/05/2002


Body Found After Cemetery Shaft Fall
08/05/2002


Father urged government not to write off his son
After 30 years of uncertainty, friends and family were able to honor a pilot whose plane went down during the Vietnam War...
08/05/2002


Girl Scouts preserve cemetery's history
08/05/2002


Ensure crematory owner's safety
It has been almost six months since hundreds of bodies were found dumped like garbage at the Tri-State Crematory...
08/02/2002


Family, Funeral Home in Dispute
Drove to the University of Maryland to set their late father's ashes adrift over the school's famous M-shaped flower bed...
08/02/2002


Ballot wording OK'd for cemeteries
Millage request would provide funds to obtain and maintain cemeteries for the future...
08/02/2002


Ignored cemetery gets cleanup
Hamilton County is one step closer to making improvements at a large Northside cemetery...
08/02/2002


People and pets can be buried together
A Lancashire cemetery is allowing people to be buried with their pets...
08/02/2002


Offshore Sailing School Gives $10,000 To Twin Towers Fund
08/02/2002


County's cemeteries vulnerable
Tipping old tombstones was great fun for an Athens teen a few years back, until he destroyed a lot more than he expected in the old graveyard....
08/02/2002


Graveyard Bandits
Flower arrangements turn up missing at cemetery...
08/02/2002


Perry calls for memorial in Austin for Sept. 11
To commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and Texans who died...
08/02/2002


All Saints Church Commemorates Victims of WWI
08/02/2002


Removal of bodies planned in widening
08/02/2002


Help In Locating Old Cemeteries Sought
From the 1850s various grave sites have been used in Mitchell County....
08/02/2002


Thief Adds to Grief at Valley Cemeteries
Purse-snatchings that took place while the victims paid their respects...
08/02/2002


Thieves lift four Civil War grave markers
Stolen headstones each weighed about 200 pounds...
08/02/2002


Vandal charged in cemetery mischief
Fort White man arrested and charged with grand theft, criminal mischief and six counts of injury/destruction...
08/02/2002


Canvey: Call for burial ground inquiry
A leading Tory today demanded an independent investigation into Castle Point Council's handling of plans for a cemetery on Canvey...
08/02/2002


Georgia Crematory Operator Denied Bond Reduction
08/01/2002


First Funeral House Set Up
The first of its kind in the country, has been established at Kirinya Namataba zone-Bweyogerere, near Kampala...
08/01/2002


Family-owned feeling to continue at renamed Morrell Funeral Home
Although the grand Victorian home has had several owners over the years, it's a building most remember as family-owned funeral home....
08/01/2002


Society: Social care: Letting go
Is caring for a dying relative at home the best option?
08/01/2002


Report of Santa Cruz pet cemetery's death greatly exaggerated
08/01/2002


Crime at synagogue, cemetery vexes Key West
08/01/2002


EA Village Officials Want Cemetery As a Commons
Historic Pioneer Cemetery on Oakwood Ave...
08/01/2002


Coffeyville funeral home will hold open house
08/01/2002


Mystery bones found in cemetery
Detectives believe groundhog dug up bones from a grave...
08/01/2002


Police hunt grave desecrators
Grave was desecrated and a casket containing the cremated remains of a woman unearthed and scattered...
08/01/2002


Gardener Arrested over Grave Attack
Italian police arrested disgruntled gardener over desecration of about 50 Jewish graves...
08/01/2002


Town acts on slave cemetery
Will be identified as a local site of historic interest by the town of Saint-Armand...
08/01/2002


Corps Study On Hold: Church Still Praying for Solution As River Threatens Its Cemetery 08/01/2002


Chattaroy Cemetery Vandalized
08/01/2002


Rock of Ages Reports Second Quarter Results
08/01/2002


HB Q3 2002 Financial Release Conference Call
Thu, Aug 8, 2002, 9:00 am Eastern
08/01/2002


Florida may regulate funeral industry
Speaker Tom Feeney has asked the House committees on banking and business regulation to take part in meetings...
07/31/2002


Concerns for Marsh's safety swirl around imminent release
The question isn't whether Ray Brent Marsh will get out on bond....
07/31/2002


Service Corporation International Invites You to Participate in Its Second Quarter 2002 Conference Call
Wednesday, August 7, 2002, after the close of the financial markets...
07/31/2002


Williams' Daughter Seeks Cremation
Ted Williams' oldest daughter is fighting her half- siblings over their father's body...
07/31/2002


Cemetery expansion approved over neighbors' objections
Planning Commission acknowledged mistrust the neighbors of Westwood Memorial Park have for the owners...
07/31/2002


Bethune-Cookman avoids fines in cemetery settlement
07/31/2002


Dozen jingle-playing vans at ice cream man's funeral
An ice cream man's coffin was topped with a floral tribute in the shape of a 99 cornet with raspberry sauce...
07/31/2002


South Korean's remains returned
In a ceremony yesterday at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl...
07/31/2002


A baby, a grave, a dispute
Eighty-year-old Eldonna Genrich has for decades been visiting the gravesite of the daughter she lost in childbirth...
07/31/2002


Man calls off own funeral
A man called his family for a lift home from hospital as they prepared what they thought was his body for burial...
07/31/2002


Vandals Steal Historic Headstones from Bunker Hill Cemetery
07/31/2002


Santa Cruz pet cemetery uprooting on hold
07/31/2002


Dead man calls his own funeral
A mobile phone connected a man to his family while they were at his funeral....
07/31/2002


Court rules against keeping dead mother in freezer
France's highest court has refused to allow two teachers to keep their mother's body in a glass freezer at home....
07/31/2002


Truevine Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery needs upkeep help
07/31/2002


Westminster cemeteries receive $64K gift
07/31/2002


Judge signs bond order for Tri State crematory operator
07/30/2002


Cemetery Ordinance Changes to be Discussed
Would restrict the display of personal items on graves at Rose Hill Cemetery...
07/30/2002


Grave digger fails polygraph
Had reported that the owner of Merion Memorial Garden Cemetery was ordering old graves dug up to make room for new ones...
07/30/2002


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