WHITEVILLE,NC— When you take a small preparation room in a 47 year old funeral home and make it even smaller, can you end up with more? That is exactly what Peacock Funeral Home in Whiteville, NC, accomplished with the help of Duncan Stuart Todd, Ltd., the Preparation Room Specialists. Spearheading the project was Craig Peacock, [...]

ROCKY MOUNT,VA— Victor Conner and Kevin Bowman are proud to announce the completion of their new 11,000-square-foot-facility at 62 Virginia Market Place Drive, Conner-Bowman Funeral Home and Crematory. Fulfilling a longtime dream, they now offer the community two locally owned and operated funeral homes. “Having the largest and most modern facilities in Franklin County will [...]

EUREKA,CA—Stan Dame faced many challenges when he was asked to manage Sanders Funeral Home, a firm that has been in business for 102 years in Eureka. He could not have known the myriad of obstacles that he would face in renovating the facility that had been a converted Victorian home. Undaunted, Mr. Dame forged ahead, [...]

POCOMOKE CITY,MD—Holloway Funeral Homes, proud of their tradition of professionalism for four generations, is equally proud to celebrate two new major events in the firm’s long history. A completely new funeral home, now in operation in Pocomoke City, was built to extend their operations in the Eastern shore of Maryland. Keith Downey, Mortician and General [...]

WILMINGTON,NC— Doug Bevell opened Wilmington Mortuary Service in 1998 to serve funeral directors in his North Carolina community. This past winter he was in the process of constructing a new building to better serve his clientele. Plans for the 3,800-sq-ft. facility included an office, a garage housing four vehicles, a crematory and a walk- in [...]

METUCHEN,NJ— Joseph V. Costello, III, better known as Jay, and his wife, Suzanne, continued a family tradition in funeral service when they purchased the Runyon Mortuary in Metuchen, NJ in 1992, renaming it Costello-Runyon Funeral Home. Mr. Costello had worked with his father, Joseph V. Costello, Jr., after his graduation in 1983. After a major [...]

ORANGE PARK,FL— Burney Bivens, a practicing attorney, joined his son, Aaron, in mortuary school in 2006 before the father and son team opened a funeral home in Orange Park in August 2009. Mr. Burney Bivens maintains his law office, established in 1982, while holding the title of Funeral Director in Charge for the new venture. [...]

SAVANNAH,GA— One visit to Bonaventure Funeral Home, in person or via the internet, and it becomes clear that this is no cookie-cutter funeral home. Kyle Nikola, president, wanted to provide a comfortable, gracious home from which to serve families when he established his first funeral home in this historic southern city. He speaks proudly of [...]

CLAREMORE,OK— In 1984 Jim Smith thought he had all the building he would ever need. After all, he and his wife, Cindy, owners of Musgrove-Merriott-Smith Funeral Service and Crematory, had just completed renovating their facility which had undergone several remodels since it was established in 1911. Yet in 2008, the family expanded their operation, adding [...]

VIRGINIA BEACH,VA— “Freedom Funeral Service was born out of a mission by the owners to offer the community an alternative to services available elsewhere,” states Johnna Smaw. A licensed funeral director and embalmer, Ms. Smaw oversees management of the newly built funeral home for owners, Mike Joynes, Les Lascari and Walter Ewell. In December of [...]