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FINE Mortuary College Announces Inaugural Scholarship Recipients

May 19, 2022
FINE Mortuary College, in collaboration with Lynch-Cantillon Funeral Home in Woburn, Massachusetts, is happy to announce the winners of the Kathryn Cantillon-White Memorial Scholarship. Cantillon-White, a 2011 FMC graduate, died in 2015 from pregnancy complications. Her spirit, love and dedication a...

CCMS Begins Construction on New Cremation Center

May 19, 2022
Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science has announced that construction has officially begun on its Educational Cremation Center (ECC), a facility that will become the cutting-edge enterprise, taking the college, its students and deathcare professionals boldly into the future. “Our team has...

Crisma Henriquez-Ramirez & Agencia Funeraria Señorial in Curaçao

May 19, 2022
Agencia Funeraria Señorialhas been serving the Curaçao community for more than 38 years. The funeral home knows that each person has a unique life and therefore no legacy can be celebrated in the same way and is ready to do whatever it takes to help families plan the best way to celebrate the life o...

Anthem Partners Names Chad Jackson Senior VP

May 19, 2022
Anthem Partners named Chad Jackson senior vice president of funeral operations, and Keith Ungerer chief financial officer. Jackson will oversee all funeral home management and personnel at Anthem’s U.S.-based locations. He is a former licensed funeral director and embalmer and has worked in fu...

Angeleno Mortuaries Joins Anthem Partners

May 19, 2022
Angeleno Mortuariesrecently joined Anthem Partners (Frisco), privately owned operator of funeral homes and cemeteries. The group includes 10 properties in California, including Angeleno Mortuary, Van Nuys; Angeleno Valley Mortuary, North Hollywood; Halley Olsen Chapel of the Valley, Palmdale; All Va...

Van Beck Publishes Story of Lincoln Funeral

May 19, 2022
Todd Van Beck (Nashville), funeral director, author, teacher and lecturer, recently published Undertaking Mr. Lincoln: The Grand Funeral of Abraham Lincoln. The book tells the story of the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln, whose funeral was the largest such ceremony ever held in the United State...

Life Forest Awarded ArbNet Accreditation

May 19, 2022
Earlier this year, Life Forest (Hillsborough) was awarded Level 1 accreditation by the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program for achieving particular standards of professional practices deemed important for arboreta and botanic gardens. The ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program is the only global ...

Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks and Mortuaries' John F. Llewellyn dies

May 19, 2022
John F. Llewellyn, chairman of the board of directors of Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks and Mortuaries (Glendale), died April 6, 2022, at age 74. Throughout his career, Llewellyn continued and fortified the legacy of Forest Lawn’s founder, Dr. Hubert Eaton, his great-uncle, as well as the legacy o...

Pierce Mortuary Colleges Unveils State-of-the-Art Prep Lab

May 04, 2022
Mid-America College of Funeral Service (Jeffersonville, Indiana), one of three Pierce institutions, recently brought 21st century hands-on, practical applications to the classroom with an all-new, state-of-the-art preparation lab. In addition to the varied degree programs offered by Pierce, this lab...

Fine Mortuary College Prepares for The Future

May 04, 2022
FINE Mortuary College (FMC) announced the start of a new semester in February, providing a hybrid teaching environment with both in-person and virtual learning opportunities for students. An on-campus institution since 1996, the college had to adapt and quickly meet the challenges of the pandemic...
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