Funeral homes and churches were busy with services nearly a week after the devastating storm.
She said some bodies may have been taken to funeral homes without the government's knowledge.
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Trash haulers and funeral homes are exhibit Nos. 1 and 2 in this sorry history.
Most of the staff of independent funeral homes are 45 or older, says Mr Puryear.
International has decided that some of its funeral homes are worth more dead than alive.
Funeral homes have no obligation to publish a price list or disclose their ownership.
Rollups in trash hauling and funeral homes largely failed to live up to expectations for this reason.
Scavone did a similar turnabout last year on Stewart Enterprises, a New Orleans-based operator of funeral homes.
Eternal Space's virtual memorial sites are currently only being offered through select funeral homes, cemeteries and crematoriums.
Even neighborhoods traditionally shunned for their proximity to funeral homes or cemeteries have seen their prices spike.
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Other industries listed among the slowest-growing include dry cleaners (NAICS 8123) and funeral homes (NAICS 8122).
Or more than 3, 000 funeral homes, as in the case of Service Corp.
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The website called mortuaries and funeral homes in Carson, California, where Kekua was reportedly buried -- but came up empty.
Consolidation plays in a fragmented industry--funeral homes, say, or trash haulers--can look like growth engines even when the cash is running out.
It has also sold its operations in Northern Ireland, consisting largely of Protestant funeral homes in what have become predominantly Catholic areas.
It grows by acquiring funeral homes and combining them in "clusters" that can save money by sharing services such as hearses and embalming.
With that merry thought, an ambitious SCI overexpanded in the 1990s, buying individual funeral homes and small chains willy-nilly, saddling itself with debt.
Revenue at funeral homes it owned more than a year rose 6.6% in 1998, masking a 2% decline in the number of funerals performed.
An additional 228 funeral homes being divested will continue to operate.
"When your goal is to be the biggest company and own the most funeral homes, you start to make bad decisions, " Henican says of his larger rivals.
In addition to dentists and therapists, other industries ranking near the top of the profitability list include outpatient care centers and death care services, or funeral homes.
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Funeral homes in Illinois, Wisconsin and New York have signed up to market the service to their clients, who can literally have loved ones wrapped around their fingers for eternity.
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At the same time, Stewart has launched a joint venture with the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles to build funeral homes on nine Archdiocese-owned cemeteries, sharing the revenue with the church.
The premise: Buy up lots of small companies in a fragmented business--such as used cars, funeral homes, office products, food distribution and medical diagnostics--then purchase raw materials in bulk to cut costs.
And while the ice-cream parlours and funeral homes of her youth might be long gone, the towering white dome still stands - as does Mary's faith in the power of the people.
Locked in a market-share battle with its Canadian rival, the Loewen Group--now in bankruptcy--Service Corp. bought thousands of funeral homes in the 1990s, hitting a pace of more than 20 a week in 1995.
When Service Corp. started paying more than nine times operating earnings (income before depreciation, interest and taxes) for funeral homes, Stewart refused to pay more than eight times-even if it meant losing a desirable location.
Service Corp. will be using the sale of these operations, which are spread out across the U.S. and Canada, to reduce debt accrued in a buying spree of funeral homes in the 1980s and 1990s.
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