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Page B12 JUNE 2017 FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS S ec t i on B
Todd Howell Wins April Sich Casket Giveaway
Todd Howell
firm that has been owned
by the Woodfin family for
five generations.
Howell will be receiving
the Sich “Indigo Silver” 18
gauge casket, delivery pro-
vided by Lake Forest Cas-
ket in Lombard, IL, a Sich
Casket distributor.
The monthly casket give-
away is the first of several
special programs planned
by Sich for 2017 as part of
their “Year of the Funeral
Director” promotion.
gling with increasing cre-
mation rates,” said Howell,
whose funeral homes cur-
rently sell Batesville Cas-
kets.
Howell highlighted the
similarities between his
business and Sich Casket,
adapting to the times and
the changing market. “The
idea of Chan’s turning his
family-owned furniture
company into something
that is a completely dif-
ferent product than they
would have ever consid-
ered, that is a success story
in itself.”
To learn more about the
monthly drawing and to
enter, visit or
need only enter one time
to be registered for all the
drawings throughout the
“I have been following
the story of Sich and Sir-
ius Chan (Sich CEO) and
how quality import caskets
is really a game-changer for
those of us who are strug-
balance of the year.
Sich Casket Company is
a pioneer of the Chinese
casket industry. In just
ten years the company has
grown from a small fami-
ly-run furniture factory to
a significant internation-
al manufacturer of wood
and metal caskets and a
leading Chinese supplier
of caskets in North Amer-
ica. Founded by compa-
ny president Sirius Chan,
Sich sources its materials
globally to provide the fin-
est quality and best value
at every price point. With
more than 250 models
and styles of solid hard-
wood, wood veneer and
metal caskets, Sich caskets
are sold through a distribu-
tor network serving funer-
al homes throughout the
United States and Canada.
NORTHRIDGE,CA— Sich
Caskets has announced
the winner of their first
monthly “Year of the Fu-
neral Director” casket give-
away, Todd Howell. How-
ell is the managing director
of Woodfin Funeral Cha-
pels in Murfreesboro and
Smyrna, TN, a funeral
Attendees will be treated to a closer look at this A.J. Miller-
bodied 1955 Cadillac Flower Car owned by meet host Ken Howe.
Professional Car Society to hold 41st Annual Meet in Lebanon
By Gregg D. Merksamer, PCS Publicity & Media Relations Chair
PWC 2016 Meet’s Funeral Directors Choice was awarded to
Madison, Virginia funeral director John Morehead for this 1923
Ford Model TT eight-column hearse he first admired as an eight-
year-old while attending funeral conventions with his father.
Intricate cast aluminum draperies distinguished this Cincinnati-built Sayers & Scovill 1939
LaSalle funeral coach that was driven, not trailered, 500 miles from Durham, Ontario to
earn John & Patti McCulloch the PCS 2016 Meet’s Best-of-Show. When its 2,800-hour res-
toration was started in 2000, the ash body framework was so rotted that the side doors
were lying in the casket compartment.
Inn Express or Super 8 Motel. The closest major airports
to Lebanon on the Interstate 44 corridor are Springfield-
Branson (SGF) an hour southwest and St. Louis Interna-
tional (STL) 2.5 hours to the northeast, while Kansas City
International (MCI) is another option 3.5 hours north-
west and Greyhound offers direct bus service.
A registration form detailing the meet’s itinerary and ac-
tivity fees can be downloaded from the official PCS web-
site a en Howe is
pleased to field prospective attendee queries at 417-594-
4061 or .
Henney, Pinner, Siebert, Sayers & Scovill, Miller-Mete-
or, Cotner/Bevington, Armbruster/Stageway and Supe-
rior. All exhibit cars must have wheel chocks and fire extin-
guishers and be shown without coffins, cobwebs, skeletons
or other morbid distractions in deference to PCS Constitu-
tion provisions that do permit funeral vehicles with floral
arrangements and authentic rescue gear inside ambulances
and hearse-ambulance “combination” coaches (camper con-
versions retaining their original bodies can also participate
but won’t be judged). Saturday evening’s awards banquet
at the Cowan Civic Center will conclude most-memorably
at 8 pm with a Moving Lights and Siren Show to the I-44
Speedway, ensuring immediate anticipation for future PCS
International Meets already scheduled for Detroit in 2018;
South Dakota’s Black Hills in 2019; the Upstate New York
Adirondacks in 2020; and Ohio in 2021.
Though it’s not required for Lebanon Meet registra-
tion, information on a PCS membership which in-
cludes six bi-monthly issues of the multi-award-win-
ning magazine The Professional Car can be found at
r by contacting
membership director Jeffrey Hookway at 973-862-6047;
; or 64 Mudcut Rd., Lafayette, NJ,
07848-4607.
The first scheduled event is a 4 pm Wednesday welcome
tour of the Holman-Howe Funeral Home, followed by an
all day Thursday luxury bus trip to Branson’s Silver Dollar
City theme park and Dolly Parton’s Dixie StampedeTheater
and a 4 pmFriday “pro-car” procession to the EvergreenHis-
torical Automobiles collection. PCS Lebanon’s main event,
nonetheless, will be the 10am-3pm Saturday Car Show in-
side the climate-controlled Kenneth E. Cowan Civic Cen-
ter. The Show Me State’s auto enthusiasts may never get a
better chance to admire the creations of such skilled hearse,
ambulance and livery vehicle builders as Eureka, Flxible,
LEBANON,MO—Anyone able to ap-
preciate the aesthetics and fine crafts-
manship of classic, exquisitely-re-
stored funeral vehicles, ambulances
and livery-type limousines will want
to be in Lebanon, MO from July 19-
22, 2017 for the Professional Car
Society’s 41st Annual International
Meet, especially as this historic Unit-
ed States 66 Ozarks town and local
mortician Ken Howe have successful-
ly hosted this event twice previously
in 1992 and 2001. This year’s Hamp-
ton Inn headquarters hotel, located
off West Elm Street, will be offering
special rates to callers mentioning the
PCS International Meet. Attendees
can also opt for the adjacent Holiday
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