Clarence Johnson, Jr. Funeral Home Inc. provides complete funeral and cremation services to the local community of Yeadon, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA and surrounding areas.
The Roller's second and third generations continue their gratitude towards Mountain Home. The Rollers were instrumental in establishing the School for Mortuary Science at ASU Mountain Home where they still serve on the Advisory Board to the President. Now, students from Arkansas do not have to lea...
Up to 100 bodies would lie in the mortuary’s cold room awaiting transportation to the crematory, where David used a wood 2-by-4 to pack them into the ovens like cordwood, according to witnesses at the Sconces’ preliminary hearing, which ended earlier this year. Under the state Health a...
Flanner was born in a Quaker village in Ohio in 1854 and moved to Indianapolis when he was a young child. He attended local Indianapolis schools. In 1881 he became an undertaker and built the state’s only crematory at the time. Several years later, he and a new partner Charles J. Buc...
In reaction to the continuation of these practices, a “Death-Positive Movement” has slowly developed in the United States since the 1960s, but has done so alongside the commercially driven mortuary and cemetery industry that has continued to grow in ways that have seen the decline of independe...