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SOLON ? One of the oldest, most well-known types of businesses is trying to reinvent itself. It's normally thought of...
Read moreDetailsVeterans 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...
Read moreDetailsMystery: 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...
Read moreDetails92 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...
Read moreDetailsPet Owners Turn Caskets into Resting Places for Two
SPRINGFIELD -- Baby boomers have made an impact on every part of American culture from the crib to, now, the...
Read moreDetailsEmmett Till’s Casket to go to Smithsonian
The glass-topped casket that showed lynching victim Emmett Till's battered body to the world and became a rallying point for...
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Funeral Director Honoring Pioneers of The Funeral Industry, Launches Landmarkfuneralhome.com
(Article Originally Posted July 17, 2009 on old ConnectingDirectors.com) When Ashley Boyd told me what she was doing I could...
Read moreDetails4 Charged With Digging up Graves, Reselling Plots
Four people face felony charges after authorities discovered that hundreds of graves were dug up and allegedly resold at a...
Read moreDetailsFlashy Funerals – A Last Chance to Make a Good Impression
The hunter's family came in with a simple photograph of the deceased, snapped during a trek through the woods. The...
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The summer of celebrity deaths?
One after the other, they were dying: Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon, all in the same week earlier...
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