Veterans Affairs To Expand Houston National Cemetery
The Department of Veterans Affairs on Tuesday announced a $1 million contract to begin expansion and improvements at the 44-year-old Houston National Cemetery. The 419-acre cemetery is the...
Funeral Webcasting Is Alive and Well
If webcasting a funeral seems a little, well, ghoulish to you, you?re not alone. The decade-old service has been a hard sell to most funeral directors until recently....
Funeral Homes Prepare for Possible H1N1 Surge
As Americans await the release of the H1N1 vaccine, companies, families and individuals are doubling down their efforts to inoculate themselves against the possible pandemic. One industry preparing...
Compost in the Sky: Eco-Friendly Burials Trend Include Liquid Nitrogen, Pine Boxes
Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. If it were that simple, then funeral parlors wouldn't have so much work to do. There is a lot involved preparing a...
Mystery: Rare Marker Calls Into Question Cemetery’s Founding Date
VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI - W.W. Williamson has been dead for 150 years. That much is known. His gravestone in Beulah Cemetery has only recently been discovered, however ? and...
Cemetery Operator Pleads Guilty to Stealing Millions
A Grand Rapids, Mich., cemetery operator has pleaded guilty to two felonies for embezzling more than $4.2 million in cemetery trust funds from Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens in...
Former Funeral Director Charged For Rotting Bodies
COLUMBIA, Mo.: A former Missouri funeral home director accused of keeping rotting bodies in a basement faces three felony counts of unlawful merchandising practices. The indictment that Boone...
Business Conference to Help Funeral Directors
Business Conference to Help Funeral Directors - Industry Experts to Provide Tips on How to Better Serve Families, Boost Profits. Funeral professionals throughout the country are already making...
92 Year Old Man Flees Grandkids’ Home, Scared of Cremation?
Worried he might be cremated after his death, a 92-year-old man fled his grandchildren's home in Guiyang, Guizhou province, a fortnight ago. Officials of the civil affairs bureau...
Should Families Be Charged For Online Obituaries? – 14 Question National Survey
Opinions and questions are circulating regarding whether families should be charged for online obituary services, and whether guest book signers should have to register to leave messages. Connecting...