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Brunswick Memorial Home Wins
"Best Funeral Services of Central New Jersey"
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ – Brunswick Memorial Home has been voted the 2009 Best of Central Jersey for Funeral Services by the Home News Tribune and MyCentralJersey.com. The award, as voted on by the readers via write-in submissions, recognizes Brunswick Memorial Home for being the “Best of the Best” in
"Best Funeral Services of Central New Jersey"
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ – Brunswick Memorial Home has been voted the 2009 Best of Central Jersey for Funeral Services by the Home News Tribune and MyCentralJersey.com. The award, as voted on by the readers via write-in submissions, recognizes Brunswick Memorial Home for being the “Best of the Best” in
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Cooperative Funeral Fund partners with Susanna Pau to offer new cemetery trust product
 (Madison, CT) Cooperative Funeral Fund (CFF) announces a collaborative partnership with Susanna Pau, Cemetery Trust Consultant. “Susanna Pau brings an expertise in sub-accounting from her extensive experience in managing trust records for companies such as Loewen and Alderwoods. She is also quite knowledgeable with regard to the current funeral and cemetery regulations in the United States and Canada. We are pleased that
FINE’s Mike Pearson Purchases Jenkins & Newman Funeral Home
 Mike Pearson, LFD, a graduate and faculty member of FINE Mortuary College, LLC: A Private Two Year College, and his wife Sharon have purchased the Jenkins & Newman Funeral Home in Colebrook, NH. Mike joined the funeral home in 2001 as an apprentice, and was graduated from FINE in Norwood, MA. in 2005. Mike has taught distance education courses at FINE from his home in New Hampshire for over four years. Love Ashes Cremation Jewelry to be Featured
 New Product to Premiere at ICCFA Expo - Love Ashes memorial pendants are giving people across the country a special way to keep their deceased loved ones close at heart. These one-of-a-kind creations will be featured at the Love Ashes booth at the ICCFA Convention in San Antonio, March 10-13. Launched by artist and owner Silvia Engel on a national level in 2009, Love Ashes cremation jewelry and framed memorials Funeral Service Program Opens Updated Facility
 The Funeral Service Education department at Piedmont Technical College is on its way to becoming the premier training facility for current and future funeral directors in the southeast with the recent renovations to the embalming lab and the addition of a pet crematory. “This has been a long journey for us, but is has been well worth it,” said David Martin, funeral service program director at PTC. Batesville Launches its ObitLink Service,
 Linking Funeral Home Websites with the Largest Online Newspaper Obituary Network in North America Batesville to offer ObitLink™ online obituary and memorialization product as part of its ConnectivitySuite™ BATESVILLE, IN – January 18, 2010 – Batesville Casket Company, the leader in the funeral service industry, launched its ObitLink online obituary offering today giving funeral homes access to the largest nationally networked obituary system. Batesville’s ObitLink was developed through a partnership with Legacy.com, whose network of 900-plus newspaper obituary sites is the most popular online destination for obituary information. With more than 14 million visitors each month and obituaries for 70 percent of the people who die in the United States each day, Legacy.com is among the 100 most visited Web sites on the Internet. Funeral Service Foundation to Report Research Findings
From the consumers’ perspective, most funeral homes are pretty much all the same. All funeral homes offer burial, cremation and pre-planning services, they carry an inventory of caskets, vaults and urns, and they offer similar forms of personalization. Even facilities tend to be very similar within a community. So at the most fundamental level, the greatest difference between funeral homes are the individuals that work there. Market research consistently reports that the second most often volunteered reason given by consumers for preferring a funeral home is knowing or liking someone on the staff. In recent years mortuary school classes have become increasingly divergent, • Some students are right out of high school while others have graduate degrees. • Some students have never worked in a funeral home while others have spent their entire CANA Supports NFDA-FSF Haitian Relief Effort
CANA joins funeral service industry effort Chicago, IL – The Cremation Association of North America (CANA), an international organization composed of cremationists, funeral directors, cemeterians, industry suppliers and consultants, pursuant to action by the CANA Board of Directors, announced that CANA is encouraging members to support the Haitian relief effort established by the National Funeral Directors Association and the Funeral Services Foundation. “Many CANA members have inquired about how they can help with the relief effort following the earthquake in Haiti, and the CANA Board is encouraging members to support the FSF-NFDA effort,” said CANA President Bill McQueen. “We can more effectively serve the urgent need for supplies and support in Haiti by working with the previously announced program rather than to create a new program. We are particularly pleased that contributions to the FSF-NFDA program will be used for humanitarian efforts, including, if possible, funding for mortuary affairs efforts.” |
