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JULY 2017

FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS

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SCI honors 2016 Service Excellence

Award Winners

2016SCI ServiceExcellenceAwardhonorees andSCI executives.(L toR) Phil Jacobs,SCI SeniorVicePresident

and Chief Marketing Officer; Michael Lehmann, Business Development Director, SCI Headquarters; Donald

Cardell,Whitehurst Sullivan Burns & Blair Funeral Home, Fresno, CA; Jamie LenWoolfolk, Hillcrest Memorial

Park & Mortuary, Bakersfield, CA; Anthony James, Caballero Rivero Southern, Miami, FL; Vincent Canzano,

Sylvania Hills Memorial Park, Rochester, PA; and Michael R.Webb, SCI President and CEO.

HOUSTON,TX—

Service Corporation In-

ternational

(NYSE:SCI) and its brand,

Dignity Memorial

®, announced the com-

pany’s 2016 SCI Service Excellence Award

recipients. The program, created in 2007,

recognizes and honors SCI and Dignity Me-

morial associates across the country for ex-

ceeding expectations through exemplary

service toward others and fostering the com-

pany’s culture of service excellence.

Anthony James

, Assistant Grounds Man-

ager at

Caballero Rivero Southern

in Mi-

ami, FL, was named overall winner and pre-

sented with the Steve Mack Award for Service

Excellence.

Steve Mack

, a 42-year veteran of

SCI and former Senior Vice President of Op-

erations, lost his battle with cancer in 2015.

His career was highlighted by his leadership

and dedication to serving families.

In addition, the following SCI associates

were named 2016 SCI Service Excellence

Award winners:

Jamie Len Woolfolk,

Fu-

neral Arranger,

Hillcrest Memorial Park &

Mortuary

, Bakersfield, CA;

Vincent Canza-

, Superintendent,

Sylvania Hills Memori-

al Park

, Rochester, PA;

Donald Cardell

, Lo-

cation Manager,

Whitehurst Sullivan Burns

& Blair Funeral Home

, Fresno, CA; and

Michael Lehmann

, Business Development

Director,

SCI Headquarters

, Houston, TX.

“This year’s SCI Service Excellence Award

recipients display a commitment and dedi-

cation to our core value of service excellence

for the families we serve,” said

Michael R.

Webb

, President and Chief Operating Offi-

cer of SCI. “It’s an honor to recognize their

outstanding achievements in the funeral and

cemetery professions and celebrate the work

they do on behalf of our client families.”

All 2016 SCI Service Excellence Award re-

cipients were honored at a dinner held May

4 and presented with their awards by mem-

bers of the SCI and Dignity Memorial lead-

ership teams.

Service

Corporation

International

(NYSE:SCI), headquartered in Houston, is

North America’s leading provider of death-

care products and services. As of March 31,

2017, SCI owned and operated 1,500 funeral

homes and 475 cemeteries (of which 283 are

combination locations) in 45 states, eight Ca-

nadian provinces, the District of Columbia,

and Puerto Rico. Through its businesses, SCI

markets the Dignity Memorial brand which

offers assurance of quality, value, caring ser-

vice, and exceptional customer satisfaction.

In January 2016, SCI was presented with the

J.D. Power President’s Award in recognition

of an ongoing dedication to service excellence

including quality improvement, customer

satisfaction and the development of endur-

ing client relationships. For more informa-

tion about Service Corporation International,

please visit our website at

www.sci-corp.com

For more information about Dignity Memo-

rial, please visit

www.dignitymemorial.com

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Baker-Stevens-Parra-

more Funeral Home

com-

munity events include a

grief support group that

meets every month at the

funeral home, as well as a

yearly community Holiday

Hope Remembrance and

Candle lighting ceremony

every November. The fu-

neral home holds an annual

Shred Day in June and the

pre-arrangement planner

holds Lunch and Learns

several times a year. Also

offered are Hospice educa-

tional meetings.

The wonderful staff con-

sists of five funeral direc-

tors, three administrative

assistants, nine part time

ambassadors and a pre-ar-

rangement planner. The

staff is very involved in

the community with their

churches, clubs, activities

and through volunteering.