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...
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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...
Indiana Man Admits Stealing Mich. Cemetery Funds
LANSING, Mich. - A man admits embezzling about $4.2 million in perpetual-care trust funds from a Michigan cemetery operated by his Indianapolis-based company. Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox...
York Casket Builds For The Final Journey
Part of Bill Shaffer's job is mining the Bible for names -- Shem, Obadiah, Ezekiel, Asher and such. What he's naming is caskets -- specifically, a line marketed...
Using Your Facebook “Fan Page” – Stream Your Funeral Home’s Blog or Tweets!
Now that you have created your Facebook page (see last blog post), what are you going to do with it? While the answer to that question is really...
Pet 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 funeral. We spotted one part of this trend...