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Starbucks Finds Resting Place in Texas Funeral Home

By Linda JonesMar 26th 2011 – 7:20AM
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MCKINNEY, Texas -- Owners of a funeral home in this Dallas suburb who hope to project a more progressive image have taken their customer-service concept to another level: They now sell Starbucks coffee. Visitors to the mortuary making arrangements for loved ones can now have a macchiato instead of the ordinary cup of...

'Green Reaper' Wants US to Be Green to the Grave

By David MoyeApr 22nd 2010 – 9:54AM
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Elizabeth Fournier

(April 22) -- Being dead as a doornail is apparently no excuse for not being concerned with the environment. That's why one mortician in Boring, Ore., is taking it upon herself to tell her customers how they can spend eternity without harming Earth -- by creating urns out of their leftover laundry lint. She's Elizabeth...

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  • 02/16/11 Deaths for week Feb. 7-11, 2011 Source: The News Journal - Florence SC Baer, Louise West, 96, died on Feb. 10, Stoudenmire-Dowling Funeral Home. Blackman, Don, 78, Darlington, died on Feb. 6, Belk Funeral Home. Bostic, Paris, Darlington, died on Feb. 4, MItchell-Josey Funeral Home. Brewer, Ronald Lee, 61, died on Feb. 2, Cain Funeral Home. Brock, David "Bo", 81, Darlington, died Feb. 8, Belk Funeral Home. Brown, Nyerere Deon "Bubba", 20, Darlington, died on Feb. 7, Mitchell-Josey Funeral Home. Carr, Eddie Lynne Young, 62, died on Feb. 7, Cain Funeral Home. Dixon, Daisy, Lamar, Mitchell-Josey Funeral Home. Eaddy, Christine Delores, Timmonsville, died on Feb. 7, Bacote-Eaddy Funeral Home. Evans, Richard, 81, Darlington, died on Feb. 8, Belk Funeral Home. Frye, Madge, 79, died on Feb. 6, Floyd Funeral Home. Gee, William "Master G" James, Olanta, died on Feb. 9, Richardson Funeral Home. Gulles, Winston Deleon, died on Feb. 3, Ideal Funeral Parlor.
  • 02/02/11 Deaths for week of Jan. 24-30, 2011 Source: The News Journal - Florence SC Allen, Patricia Kennedy, Timmonsville, died on Jan. 26, Bacote-Eaddy Funeral Home. Bines, Brenda, 50, died on Jan. 28, Bacote-Eaddy Funeral Home. Broach, Jean, 83, Darlington, died on Jan. 24, Belk Funeral Home. Britt, Annie, 76, Darlington, died on Jan. 26, Kistler-Hardee Funeral Home. Bunch, Delores, 64, Darlington, died on Jan. 24, Kistler-Hardee Funeral Home. Bywater, April Mary, 61, died on Jan. 25, Cain Funeral Home. Churchill, Kevin Douglas, 57, died on Jan. 26, Stoudenmire-Dowling Funeral Home. Davis, Joyce Dianne, 58, died on Jan. 27, Belk Funeral Home. Dennis, Corbett Erwin, died on Jan. 29, Stoudenmire-Dowling Funeral Home. Fickling, Frank Linely, 86, Florence, Cain Funeral Home. Hatchell, George Eddie, 78, died on Jan. 24, Layton-Anderson Funeral Home. Hilburn, Agnes Alyne, 79, died on Jan. 30, Stoudenmire-Dowling Funeral Home. Hodges, Coraygus "Ray Luv", 27.
  • 01/19/11 Deaths for Jan. 10-16, 2011 Source: The News Journal - Florence SC Brown, Lynn Winfield, formally of Florence, died on Jan. 10, Stoudenmire-Dowling Funeral Home. Chadwick, Larry Donald, 76, died on Jan. 8, Waters-Powell Funeral Home. Clark, Tommy Bruce, 63, Darlington, died on Jan. 9, Miller-Rivers Funeral Home. Cox, Wanda Morris, 54, died on Jan. 14, Stoudenmire- Funeral Home. Cribb, Vacie S., 91, Darlington, died on Jan. 14, Belk Funeral Home. Ellis, Josie, died on Jan. 12, Hines Funeral Home. Fennell,Robert Ervin, 74, Pamlico, died on Jan. 9.

Background on funeral home

A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides burial and funeral services for the deceased and their families.

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