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Mourningbands Updates/Improves Traditional Bands

October 11, 2024
Mourning bands, traditional symbols of respect and remembrance, have long been a part of memorial services and uniforms. Mourningbands.org is revolutionizing this tradition, offering funeral directors a unique opportunity to provide personalized tributes that resonate deeply with grieving families a...

Memorial Walls Offers Livestreaming Service

October 11, 2024
Memorial Wall has launched Virtual Visitation, which utilizes an 8-by-10-inch screen to provide a video call experience, allowing those who cannot physically join a service to do so virtually. Callers can see everyone at the scheduled visitation, carry on conversations and even view the urn or caske...

New Book Hits the Shelves

October 11, 2024
Terry Hamburg’s Land of the Dead: How the West Changed Death in America (Prometheus, 2024) follows the fabled 19th century migration to the American West, a journey filled with peril and despair. Death was a constant companion, and the promised land proved as lethal as it was fickle. Just p...

Aurora Payments Forms Strategic Partnership with OGR

October 11, 2024
Aurora Payments recently formed a strategic partnership with the International Order of the Golden Rule (OGR). Under this agreement, OGR members will receive the lowest credit card processing rates and the most advanced payments technology for increased efficiency and productivity. This new partn...

Center for Loss and Life Transition Releases End-Of-Year Schedule

October 11, 2024
The Center for Loss and Life Transition recently announced the locations of its remaining 2024 educational keynotes and workshops. Conducted by Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D., these programs help participants understand their own grief, learn how to companion others in their sorrow, understand the natural comp...

Thacker Caskets Celebrates 85 Years in Funeral and Supply Industry

October 11, 2024
Thacker Caskets is thrilled to commemorate 85 years of dedicated service in the funeral services and supply industry in 2024. Established in 1939 as a modest casket jobber [wholesaler] in the heart of Washington, D.C., Thacker Caskets has evolved into the largest family-owned and -operated casket su...

Batesville Acquires Halcyon

October 11, 2024
Recently, Batesville acquired privately held Halcyon Deathcare Management Solutions, which provides funeral home and crematory management software. As part of the transaction, Halcyon owners Sara and Perry Gard, and the company’s employees, joined Batesville and will continue to develop, marke...

U.S.-PATENTED PEARL’S PREMIUM LAWN SEED OFFERS NUMEROUS BENEFITS

September 23, 2024
Longtime environmentalist and water resources/sustainability expert Jackson Madnick invented Pearl’s Premium Ultra Low Maintenance Lawn Seed, which he named after his beloved mother. This game-changing, award-winning, U.S.-patented organic grass seed saves money, time and labor while protectin...

FSI NAMES FAHERTY EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF CLIENT RELATIONS

September 23, 2024
Funeral Services Inc. named Michael Faherty as its new executive vice president of client relations, blending his current role with Argent Financial Group’s Funeral & Cemetery Trust division. In this new role, he will seek opportunities to bring the benefits of both companies to existing a...

MILESTONE FUNERAL PARTNERS SELECTS TRAVEL PLAN BY INMAN

September 23, 2024
Milestone Funeral Partners locations now offer their clients out-of-area protection after partnering exclusively with the Travel Plan by Inman, which provides families with peace of mind in knowing loved ones won’t have to worry about details or cost should they die while away from home. With ...
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