We check in with firms of all stripes to learn how they’re seeking to persevere—and how some are plotting to gain a competitive advantage when normalcy returns.
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Lauren Richwine says on her website and in client consultations that she is not a licensed funeral director. But a 2021 anonymous complaint lodged with the Indiana Public Licensing Agency alleged she engaged in the unlicensed practice of funeral services.
Thousands of funeral homes now offer obituary generators. The shift has created some division in the industry, with some old-timers unnerved by the coldness of it all—or by the thought it might help take their jobs away.
Members of Indiana’s House of Representatives approved the measure on a 70-17 vote—a far cry from its defeat on a 34-59 vote a decade ago.
Flanner Buchanan, an Indianapolis-based company with more than a dozen funeral home locations in central Indiana, recently acquired the 32,000-square-foot building near the Riverside area.
Flanner and Buchanan Funeral Centers has acquired the Lavenia & Summers Home for Funerals, Indianapolis-based Flanner and Buchanan announced Thursday.
Funeral homes aren't just for funerals anymore. Businesses that once focused almost entirely on honoring the dead are now open to an array of events as they seek to add revenue.
The legislation would require the State Board of Funeral and Cemetery Service to adopt rules for alkaline hydrolysis. The process is legal in 11 other states.
Flanner and Buchanan Funeral Centers sometimes stretches the definition of “funeral” to stay relevant after nearly
130 years. The family-owned business began downtown and has grown northward along with the city’s population. Today,
it has 14 funeral centers and conducted 2,200 funerals last year.
Ivy Tech Community College will train students in mortuary sciences, filling a void left when Indiana College of Mortuary Science kicked the bucket several years ago.
