You Think This Weekend Is About Cookouts, Parties and the Beach…But it’s Not
Article by: Jeff Harbeson, The Funeral Commander and The Harbeson Group An American Soldier…A Memorial Day Story. A few years back a friend of mine and I took...
Cemeteries
Congressional Cemetery: Best Cemetery Ad Ever
There is, it turns out, such a thing as burial humor, and the Congressional Cemetery is all about it. While the historic cemetery in Hill East boasts such...
Should This Cemetery Back Down?
For one father, a simple headstone isn't enough to honor his fallen son, a Navy veteran. Standing Rock Cemetery contends Fred Molai is breaking the rules with 8-foot high...
StoneMor Partners Drops $53.8 Million In Cash For SCI Properties
StoneMor Partners L.P. announced today that it has signed definitive agreements to purchase 9 funeral homes, 12 cemeteries and 2 crematories from Service Corporation International for an aggregate...
The Environmental Impact of Funerals (Infographic)
Contributed by: qeepr.com It is often said that death is a cycle whereupon the body, carbon and a person’s essence are returned to the earth. What this maxim...
How Some Graves at Hollywood Forever Have Stayed Forever Green
It’s hard to remember that the Hollywood Forever Cemetery that now plays host to James Blake concerts and showings of “Point Break” had fallen into disuse and decrepitude...
Bill Would End Wisconsin’s 80-Year-Old prohibition on Cemeteries Owning Funeral Homes
When Kevin Pagenkopf's son told his first-grade teacher what he wants to be when he grows up, she didn't expect him to say funeral director. Pagenkopf said he...