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Stephanie Dyck, Care Center Supervisor and Glenn Rosenbaum, Vice-President.
French Funerals and Cremations Serves Albuquerque with Newly Renovated
Care Center
ALBUQUERQUE,NM— For more than
110 years, French Funerals and Crema-
tions has served the community of cen-
tral New Mexico, having been founded in
1907 by Chester T. French. The trust of
the area’s residents has enabled the com-
pany to grow to its current position as the
largest and oldest family-owned and op-
erated funeral service company in Albu-
querque with five locations including Rio
Rancho.
As could be expected, the ability to serve
this community with a high level of com-
petency would eventually require a renova-
tion of the Central Care Facility to keep
pace with the business. When the project
was initiated, Stephanie Dyck, Supervi-
sor and Funeral Director, said “Our goal
was to protect the health and safety of our
staff and to create an efficient working en-
vironment.”
Duncan Stuart Todd, Ltd., the Prepara-
tion Room Specialists, was brought in to
design, specify and equip the new space.
Upon completion, Glenn Rosenbaum,
Vice President who oversaw the project,
stated, “From beginning to end, Duncan
Stuart Todd was able to take our vision for
a state-of-the-art workspace and articulate
it into a care center that our entire staff is
proud to serve our families out of. Even
our contractor, who was unfamiliar with
prep room construction, was impressed
with how easy it was to follow the draw-
ings and plans that DST provided.”
The extensive project consisted of sup-
plying a safe air system and providing for
three embalming stations, dressing room
and separate storage room.
Safety and comfort are assured with a
PrepAir G2 system that heats, cools and
ventilates the general airstream, operat-
ing in tandem with the PrepArm system
for localized exhaust over the embalm-
ing table. A full complement of foot end,
plumbing and emergency safety equip-
ment was supplied along with custom ac-
cessories and body lifts. Custom cabinetry
included upper and lower cabinets with
instrument drawers, tall cabinets and de-
Family of Companies are Chester French
Stewart, D. F. “Duffy” Swan, Tom E. An-
tram and Robert H. Stewart . Members of
the French Family Companies organiza-
tion at all five facilities are active in civic,
cultural and church activities. The Central
Care Facility is in the University location.
Other French funeral homes are Lomas,
Wyoming and West Side in Albuquerque
with a fifth funeral home in Rio Rancho.
cedent lockers and desk in
the storage room.
After the room was in
operation, Ms. Dyck had
praise for the improved
ventilation, the ease of
workflow and the amount
of storage space. “Our Care
Team,” she said “has been
extremely excited about our
new facility where we can
provide the care that we do
each and every day. We are
very pleased with how easy
it is to use the body lifts and
how much time it saves us
in doing so.”
The local community was
invited for an event in late
2016 for a tour of the facil-
ity, prompting one guest,
a retired embalmer, to say
“seeing this almost makes
me want to go back to em-
balming, just to say I have
worked in a facility like
yours!”
The Albuquerque Journal
recognized French Funer-
als with a “Top Work Plac-
es” award in 2017.
Owners of the French
Passare Announces Integration with
Consolidated Funeral Services
ABILENE,TX— Passare®,
Inc. is pleased to announce
its integration with Con-
solidated Funeral Servic-
es (CFS), a provider of custom websites
for funeral homes.
“Passare is now able to send information
such as the obituary, service dates & times,
types of services, and much more directly
to CFS websites with just one click,” said
Passare Vice President and Chief Product
Officer Chris Baber. “This very simple
process helps funeral homes save time, re-
duce errors, and streamline their process
for each family served.”
Passare launched its collaboration plat-
form in 2014 to help funeral homes and
families connect and collaborate in an in-
teractive, online environment designed
to simplify the funeral planning process.
The collaborative platform is also a fully
functioning funeral administration sys-
tem built on a web-based platform, which
is accessible anytime, anywhere, from any
Internet-connected device.
With Passare’s integration with CFS, fu-
neral directors can send the data gathered
on a case, such as the obituary, vital statis-
tics, and funeral options, straight to the
funeral home’s CFS website. The integra-
tion will allow for a single point of data
entry, eliminating the need to reenter data
that is already available on Passare.
“We are very impressed with Passare’s in-
novative collaboration and case manage-
ment system and are pleased to support
comprehensive integration between Pas-
sare and CFS,” said Felix Tsatskis, Co-
founder of CFS. “This new feature pro-
vides our mutual customers with two
great solutions that operate as though one
company produced them.”
Passare is helping funeral profession-
als all over the nation reimagine the fu-
neral experience. Passare is the industry’s
only collaboration system with integrat-
ed case management. Only Passare allows
families and funeral directors to collabo-
rate on arrangements anytime, anywhere,
from any Internet-connected device. Pas-
sare helps families and funeral directors
communicate better throughout the fu-
neral planning process, leading to in-
creased customer engagement, higher
levels of satisfaction, and a better overall
experience for funeral professionals and
families alike. To learn more, contact us
at or visit us online at
Consolidated Funeral Services is a full-
service website design company located in
Greater Boston. Since opening in 2008,
they have provided quality websites for
more than 3,600 funeral homes, with more
going live each week. The operation of CFS
is fueled completely by commissions from
the sale of sympathy products on the funer-
al home websites, which means that funeral
homes don’t have to pay CFS anything ex-
cept a portion of these sales. This unique
business philosophy allows them to pro-
vide great service to funeral homes across
the continent without commitments, con-
tracts, or costs.