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TULSA,OK— In March of 2004, 58
funeral homes agreed to pay out over
$36,000,000 to settle the civil suits
brought about by families of the dead
supposedly cremated at the Tri-State
Crematory in Georgia from 1996 to
2002. The reason the funeral homes
were found culpable was their lack of
due diligence. It was said that if just
one of them had inspected the facility
this tragedy could have been avoided.
Cremation Strategies and Con-
sulting offers a new service called IN-
SPECT, providing an outside expert
inspection of your crematory opera-
tion or your third-party cremation
provider’s operation, delivering peace
of mind and assurances to your clients
and families that all is as it should be.
One would think that the Tri-State
tragedy could never happen again.
“Sadly, the fact remains that there are
circumstances and situations that re-
quire us to make sure our back sides
are covered,” said founder Larry Stu-
art, Jr. “Even when we know our cre-
mation provider is nothing but the
best, all it takes is one family to per-
ceive something different and then
the lawyers get involved. A regular
outside inspection with documenta-
tion can go a long way to counter this
before it ever becomes a costly issue.”
INSPECT includes a current state
inspection analysis and a detailed re-
port with photo documentation of
either your crematory or your third-
party crematory provider’s:
• Operations and Procedures
• Chain of Custody/ID Protocols
• Forms, Permits & Documents
•Maintenance Records
• Facility Condition
• Equipment Condition
Larry Stuart, Jr. is the former Presi-
dent of Crematory Manufacturing
& Service, Inc . Larry is also a Cer-
tified Funeral Celebrant and believes
that every life deserves to be honored
in celebration remembrance. Larry
is a graduate of Kent State Univer-
sity and is a former member on the
Board of Directors of the Cremation
Association of North America, and
Editor in Chief of The Cremation-
ist magazine, published by CANA.
Larry is also a Cremation Coach
for the International Cemetery Cre-
mation and Funeral Association (IC-
CFA). Larry is also a past member of
the National Funeral Directors Asso-
ciation (NFDA) Exhibitor Advisory
Committee and is currently a Trustee
and Treasurer on the Executive Board
of the NFDA Heritage Club. Larry
is also a Certified Life Tribute Cel-
ebrant, certified by The Insight Insti-
tute.
Throughout his experience Larry
has seen firsthand the negative impact
that poor crematory maintenance and
improper operating procedures can
bring about. Larry has spoken at nu-
merous industry events and has con-
ducted Crematory Operator Training
classes across North America with a
mission to advance the safety and effi-
ciency of cremation facilities, the safe-
ty of their employees and to foster a
more positively impact our commu-
nity and our environment.
For more information on this im-
portant service, call 539-777-1938 or
visit .
DETROIT,MI— Less than a year ago Everdays launched
the first and only turnkey service designed to replace news-
paper obituaries. Now, more than 1,000 funeral homes
are actively using the company’s fully digital, cloud-based
platform to create memorial announcements as a compli-
mentary service for their client families. Those families can
easily and securely broadcast the announcements to their
community using the free Everdays mobile app.
“We couldn’t be happier with the feedback we’ve received
from funeral directors and client families,” said Mark Al-
hermizi, founder and CEO of Everdays. “On one hand,
the growth we’ve seen is staggering. But really, it reflects
the overwhelming need for a modern update to the unnec-
essary expense of buying newspaper obituaries. Everdays
provides that alternative, and it does all this for free — not
just for funeral homes, but for their families as well.”
Everdays leverages the power of mobile technology to
send important updates to a family’s contacts and ensure
the news of a passing goes viral. And because each an-
nouncement carries a funeral home’s information and di-
rect link back to their website, each share leads to great-
er brand awareness, increased web traffic, and improved
event attendance. Furthermore, Everdays has been instru-
mental in reinforcing the client-director relationship.
“By bringing more people into our network of fourteen
homes, Everdays has elevated the value of our funeral ser-
vice to our current and prospective clients,” said Randy
Schoedinger, CEO of Schoedinger Funeral & Crema-
tion Services. “Every one of our forty-two staff members
has been trained to use Everdays for their client families,
and we’ve heard nothing but good things from our clients
about their experience using Everdays.”
At the core of Everdays is the Partner Dashboard, a robust
platform that gives funeral directors the power to create,
manage, and update announcements on behalf of their cli-
ent families. According to Antonio Green, president and
CEO of James H. Cole Home for Funerals, “Everdays
is clean, simple, and easy to navigate. It only takes a few
minutes to create an announcement on the Partner Dash-
board, and we do it for every family on every case.”
By providing funeral homes with a smarter model for build-
ing their business and fostering better relationships with their
clients, Everdays is poised to become the new standard for
how the world communicates around death. “No other no-
tification method provides peace of mind to homes and their
families,” said Alhermizi. “But we’re also the only company
creating a natural space for the profession to connect with a
larger community receptive to their message — and I believe
that this is why you will see Everdays continue to grow.”
Everdays, Inc. launched in 2017 in Metro Detroit as the
first and only turnkey service designed to replace costly
and outdated newspaper obituaries. The company offers a
free iOS and Android app that helps people notify fami-
ly and friends when a loved one passes away. For deathcare
professionals, Everdays provides a free, fully digital, cloud-
based platform to create announcements that they include
as part of their complimentary set of services. Families can
also download Everdays on their mobile devices to share an-
nouncements quickly and securely with their community.
For more information on Everdays, visit
DALLASTOWN,PA—Gold-
en Considerations, the
nation’s premier funer-
al insurance and funeral
trust organization, recent-
ly announced its partner-
ship with Funeral Innova-
tions, an online marketing
company focused on auto-
mation through software.
Golden Considerations will
provide their customers an
exclusive package for Fu-
neral Innovations suite of
online marketing software.
The partnership allows fu-
neral homes to utilize the
most advanced software for
online marketing in the in-
dustry: proven to generate
leads, increase flower/gift
sales, and provide value and
superior service to commu-
nity members. The package
incorporates a robust social
media platform, web site
development, and email
marketing. The full suite
provides a path for com-
munity members to learn
about the funeral home’s
unique offerings on Face-
book, easily find more in-
formation on the funeral
home’s web site, and pro-
vide their contact informa-
tion to receive up to date
information on the value
and benefits of pre-arrang-
ing their funeral.
Over 600 funeral homes
across the nation use Funer-
al Innovations’ cutting edge
software which automati-
cally posts relevant content
to Facebook, easily moves
Facebook engagement to
your website, captures con-
tact information of your
web site visitors, and stays
in front of those community
members using emails and
other forms of communica-
tion.
For over 20 years, Golden
Considerations has provided
industry-leading expertise,
excellent customer service,
and the most competitive
funeral insurance and trust
products available.
To learn more about how
this can help your funeral
home contact your Gold-
en Considerations Region-
al Director or Ginger Bal-
chunas at gbalchunas@
or Josh Rae at jrae@gold-
.