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FAQs

Who owns the biggest funeral home? ›

Service Corporation International (SCI) is the largest funeral home company in the world, with a network of over 2,000 locations across the United States and Canada.

Don and Bev Temrowski started the funeral home more than 60 years ago. Today, their sons, Daniel and David, operate the funeral home with the same passion their parents did, upholding a tradition of family and a philosophy of excellence.

Expanded and remodeled several times in the years since, Muehlig's is, at age 138, both the oldest funeral home in Michigan and the oldest business in Ann Arbor. Florian C. Muehlig, born in 1810 in Rossbach, Bavaria, was a cabinetmaker who came to Ann Arbor in 1840.

Heaton,Heaton-Bowman-Smith & Sidenfaden Chapel, the oldest funeral home in the State of Missouri and the oldest business firm in the City of St. Joseph, was founded in 1842 by David J. Heaton at Sparta, Missouri, the former county seat of Buchanan County.

A fraud inquiry has begun into the funeral plan provider Safe Hands, which collapsed leaving thousands of people with lost savings. Some 46,000 people had paid into a fund towards future funeral costs.

Understanding the funeral industry landscape

You may find it surprising that less than 80% of funeral homes in the U.S. are privately owned by families, individuals or small chains. Even more surprising is that more than 20% of all funeral homes in the country are owned by large corporations.

A chronicle of the lives of a dysfunctional family who run an independent funeral home in Los Angeles.

Traditional Funerals was founded by the Jarvie and Dart Families. In 1994 we commenced operations on Bribie Island with a conviction that the local community should be cared for by local families.

If the human remains are properly preserved they can be stored for longer periods of time. In most cases, so long as the remains are properly refrigerated, funeral homes can store a body for a few days to a few weeks.

What is the oldest funeral home in Florida? ›

This LaVilla based business is currently operating as Hillman-Pratt & Walton Funeral Home. Established in 1900, this is the oldest funeral home in the state of Florida.

The earliest evidence of wooden coffin remains, dated at 5000 BC, was found in the Tomb 4 at Beishouling, Shaanxi. Clear evidence of a rectangular wooden coffin was found in Tomb 152 in an early Banpo site.

Bynes-Royall Funeral Home is the oldest African American funeral home in the United States. The institution dates back to 1878, when Major William H. Royall was employed by a white-owned funeral home in Savannah.

Three large corporations now own 15% of the 23,000 homes in the funeral home industry. Service Corporation International (SCI), based in Houston, is the largest of the three, followed by Loewen Group Inc., based in Vancouver, Canada and Philadelphia, and Stewart Enterprises Inc., based in New Orleans.