Wilbert Announces Award Winners at Annual WMA Conference
BROADVIEW, IL, October 1, 2009 ? Wilbert Funeral Services, Inc. (WFSI) presented its sales and service awards at the Wilbert Manufacturing Association (WMA) annual meeting on September 30...
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Pet Owners Choose Burial, Cremation, Memorials for Animals
Miss Kitty had a pretty tough start in life. A tiny stray calico kitten all alone in the world, she wandered onto a farm near Amana in 1990...
Batesville Casket Wins 2009 ‘Plant of the Year’ Award
ASSEMBLY magazine, a trade publication for manufacturers, and The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world's leading management consulting firms, today named Batesville Casket Company the 2009...
Funeral Home Hosts Weddings, Parties
SOLON ? One of the oldest, most well-known types of businesses is trying to reinvent itself. It's normally thought of as recession-proof. Now, owners are turning a place...
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....
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...