The Worlds Largest Funeral Corporation, Service Corporation International, SCI has sold off several of its Funeral Homes in Mississippi.This is an indication further Funeral Industry decline.
The Texas-headquartered corporation that bought Vicksburg’s Frank J. Fisher Funeral Home in 2007 has sold it to a Mississippi-based company whose manager controls several other funeral homes around the state.
Fisher was one of three Mississippi funeral homes that changed hands in the sale to the new owner, South Mississippi Funeral Services LLC, from Service Corp. International, the country’s largest funeral home company, SCI spokesman Jennie Roberts said.- via www.vicksburgpost.com
The funeral industry is in decline. This can be seen by the latest numbers from Service Corporation International, SCI, NYSE:SCI. Worlds Largest Funeral Corporation loses millions again.
Millions and tens of millions of Service Corporation loss in dollars , in almost every category. SCI showed profits in the third quarter bylaying people off
and not paying overtime.
Revenue loses total about 19 million.
Revenues decreased to $497.2 million from $516.4 million last year. Analysts expected revenue of $480.73 million for the quarter.
Here is the Full Funeral Program for the Ted Kennedy Funeral Mass. This is not the Funeral Program that was given to the Congregation in the Mission Church in Boston. It does include great detail.
“Ted Kennedy Funeral Arrangments Released
10:05 a.m. – Extended Kennedy family arrives
10:10 a.m. – Distinguished visitors are seated
10:15 a.m. – The President, Vice President and former Presidents seated
10:20 a.m. – Mrs. Vicki Kennedy and Immediate Family arrive
Kennedy Brothers
Honorary pall bearers greet family outside church:
Melody Barnes
Honorable Justice Stephen Breyer
David Burke
Ranny Cooper
Greg Craig
Senator John C. Culver
Stephanie Cutter
Congressman William Delahunt Senator Christopher J. Dodd
Ken Feinberg
Lee Fentress
Wyche Fowler
Tim Hanan
Claude Hooton
Dr. Larry Horowitz
Senator John F. Kerry
Paul G. Kirk, Jr.
Kathy Kruse
Nick Littlefield
Congressman Edward Markey
Eric Mogilnicki
Michael Myers
Carey Parker
Honorable Edmund Reggie
Senator Donald W. Riegle
Dr. Larry Ronan
Senator James Sasser
Robert Shrum
Barbara Souliotis
10:30 a.m. – Funeral Procession Begins
Entrance Hymn: “Holy God We Praise Thy Name”
Celebrants:
His Eminence Sean P. Cardinal O’Malley, OFM CAP, Archbishop of Boston.
Fr. J. Donald Monan, S.J., Chancellor, Boston College.
Guidance note: Former President of Boston College and Kennedy family friend. Fr. Monan is the principle celebrant of the funeral mass.
Fr. Gerry Creedon, Pastor, Saint Charles Borromeo Church, Arlington, Virginia.
Guidance note: Longtime Kennedy family friend and concelebrant of the funeral mass.
Fr. Percival D’ Silva, Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, Kensington, Maryland.
Guidance note: Kennedy family friend and priest that performed the Blessed Sacraments for Caroline and Curran Raclin while at The Blessed Sacrament church in Northwes Washington, D.C. Fr. D’Silva is a concelebrant of the funeral mass.
Rev. Mark R. Hession, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville, Masssachusetts.
Guidance note: Senator and Mrs. Kennedy’s priest on Cape Cod and close friend. Fr. Hession offered mass for Senator Kennedy nearly every Sunday this year. Fr. Hession is a concelebrant of the funeral mass.
Rev. Donald MacMillian, Chaplain, Boston College.
Guidance note: Family friend, who frequently celebrated mass for Senator Kennedy. Concelebrant of funeral mass.
Very Rev. Raymond Collins, C.SS.R. Pastor, Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Pall bearers:
Kara Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy, Jr.
Patrick J. Kennedy
G. Curran Raclin, Jr.
Caroline R. Raclin
Caroline Kennedy
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Christopher Lawford
Ed Michael Reggie
Bobby Shriver
Stephen E. Smith, Jr. Immediate family:
Mrs. Victoria Kennedy
Ted Kennedy, Jr.
Kiki Kennedy
Teddy Kennedy, II
Kiley Kennedy
Kara Kennedy
Max Kennedy
Grace Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy
Caroline Raclin
Curran Raclin
Edmund and Doris Reggie
Mrs. Jean Kennedy Smith
William Kennedy Smith
Mrs. Ethel Kennedy
Honorary pall bearers (see names above)
First Reading:
Curran Raclin, the Senator’s stepson
Old Testament
The Book of Wisdom 3:1-9
Responsorial Psalm:
Kara Kennedy
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 72
Second Reading:
Caroline Raclin, the Senator’s stepdaughter
New Testament, Letter of Paul to the Romans 8:31b-35, 37-39
Gospel:
Father Hession
Matthew 25:31-32A, 34-40
The Prayers of the Faithful:
(Guidance note: readers will be reading excerpts of the Senator’ own words)
Kiki Kennedy
Kiley Kennedy
Grace Allen
Max Allen
Jack Schlossberg
Robin Lawford
Kym Smith
Anthony Shriver
Rory Kennedy
Teddy M. Kennedy II
Liturgy of the Eucharist
Offertory: The Senator’s grandchildren
At Offertory: J.S. BACH Sarabande from Cello Suite No. 6
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
At Communion: FRANCK “Panis Angelicus”
Placido Domingo, tenor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
James David Christie, organ
BRAHMS “Let Nothing Ever Grieve Thee”
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
John Oliver, conductor
James David Christie, organ
SHUBERT “Ave Maria”
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
James David Christie, organ
Senator Edward Kennedy
Remembrances: Ted Kennedy, Jr.
Patrick J. Kennedy
Eulogy: President Barack Obama
Final Commendation: His Eminence Sean P. Cardinal O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston
Recessional: “America the Beautiful”
1:00 p.m. – Departure from church to Hanscom Air Force Base
1:30 p.m. – Departure from Hanscom Air Force Base to Andrews Air Force Base”
Residents Blocked The Building of A funeral home and the parade of funeral vehicles through their neighborhood.
Local residents in Arlington Heights, Illinois blocked the World’s Largest Funeral Corporation, Service Corporation International from putting a large Funeral Home in their neighborhood. On Monday night the Village Board of Arlington Heights unexpectedly reversed it’s zoning ruling and stopped SCI from building on a funeral home on a residential street.
All SCI(Service Corporation International) had to to was shift the Funeral Home location back into the Cemetery and they would have had the Funeral Home near the residential area. The SCI “Memory Gardens Cemetery” backs up against the residential area.
In the end SCI in their usual manner proved to be inflexible. The usual threat of taking their business to another town was made repeatedly throughout the zoning process.
“A proposal to relocate Lauterberg & Oehler Funeral Home from its current location on Northwest Highway to Memory Gardens Cemetery – which seemed like a sure thing after an Arlington Heights village board meeting two
weeks ago – was denied at Monday night’s meeting.
Service Corporation International, owner of both the cemetery and the funeral home, was seeking a zoning variance to build in the cemetery. The area is zoned only for residential development.”
SCI is known in the funeral business for their strong arm tactics and the up selling their clients in their time of grief. In 2009 they have been plagued with severe financial problems and are the targets of multiple lawsuits charged with abusing the dead and mistreating families..
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