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JANUARY 2013
FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS
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Stacking Pew/Chairs
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THE CASKET CHAIR!
The casket chair allows family members
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initial viewing or during a long visitation.
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vivor might well have been
a 1939 Buick Service Car
constructed on a Series 40
Special chassis by the Flx-
ible Co. An all-red, Utah-
sourced 1951 Superior
Cadillac ambulance tout-
ing 35,400 original miles
earned Medics Choice for
Gold Cross EMS of Au-
gusta, GA.
The awards banquet fea-
tured a keynote address
by
Mark S. Van Arnem
,
the President and CEO of
American Emergency Vehi-
cles
in Jefferson, NC. He
recalled, “It was wild and
wooly times in Daytona
Beach” when he began his
EMS career locally with
Beacon Ambulance four
decades ago, elaborating
“We thought of our year
as a lot of seasons - NAS-
CAR race week, or Spring
Break where we’d get the
fourth and fifth floor div-
ers who missed the ho-
tel pool, or the Warlocks
fighting the Hell’s Angels
during Bike Week. When
a call went through the
airwaves you never knew
what you’d find.”
By the time that PCS
Daytona 2012 formal-
ly concluded with a dra-
matic, dignified Light
Finale where the partic-
ipating ambulances’ si-
rens were muted in def-
erence to the residences
surrounding The Shores
Resort, attendees were al-
ready looking forward to
the 36th Annual Interna-
tional Meet that will take
place in Milwaukee, from
August 21-24, 2013. Its
2014 successor will be
hosted by the PCS North-
land Chapter in Roches-
ter, MN, while the 2015
and 40th anniversary
2016 editions are tenta-
tively planned for Hous-
ton and Gettysburg. For
further info on the PCS
and its upcoming activi-
ties, visit the club’s offi-
Sparkling, Sapphire Blue paintwork – plus an odometer indicating 64,873 miles on show day – was
a clear contributor to the Funeral Director’s Choice and Second Place Hearse Class Awards won
at PCS Daytona 2012 by Peter Bain’s 1986 S&S Cadillac Victoria Hearse from Hendersonville, NC.
–Photo by Gregg D. Merksamer
sine” style 1940 Henney Packard that still
handles an average of 25 funerals annual-
ly for Gainesville, FL director
Gene Wil-
liams
“As our firm was founded in a fur-
niture store in 1890,” he noted, “this fits
in with us and how old we are.”
Since its panel truck-style body, intend-
ed for workhorse funerary tasks like first
calls or transporting chairs to the ceme-
tery, would have appealed to plumbers
and painters on a second-hand budget,
PCS Daytona 2012’s most-unlikely sur-
Daytona Beach Welcomes Professional
Car Society
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