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Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans). [5] [6] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries. [1]
Funeral homes arrange services in accordance with the wishes of surviving friends and family, whether immediate next of kin or an executor so named in a legal will. The funeral home often takes care of the necessary paperwork, permits, and other details, such as making arrangements with the cemetery, and providing obituaries to the news media ...
As of 2019, there are around 19,136 funeral homes that provide funeral services in the U.S. About 89.2% of them are privately owned by families or individuals. [ 22 ] Experts and analysts of the industry have estimated that the top six funeral operators control 25 to 30% of all funeral services in North America, with the top four owning between ...
Sherburne is located slightly southwest of the geographic center of the town of Sherburne, at (42.679302, -75.497518 [3]According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km 2), all land.
Edward Sherburne (1618–1702), English poet, translator, and Royalist; Henry Sherburne (1611–1680), early settler in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Henry Sherburne (colonel) (1748-1824), officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution; John C. Sherburne (1883-1959), attorney and judge from Vermont
The district includes commercial, academic, industrial, and residential properties. Among the notable structures are the Sherburne Bank Building (now Post Office, 1880), Sanford Block (now Masonic Temple, 1882), Sherburne Inn (1917), Congregational Church (1864–1868, 1884), and Sherburne Public Library (1910, 1938). [2]
In 2003, 15 percent of corporately owned funeral homes in the US were owned by one of three corporations. [9] The majority of morticians work in small, independent family-run funeral homes. The owner usually hires two or three other morticians to help them. Often, this hired help is in the family, perpetuating the family's ownership.
West Hill Cemetery (also called Sherburne West Hill Cemetery) is a historic cemetery at Sherburne in Chenango County, New York. The cemetery contains over 4,500 burials, two thirds of which predate 1950. The earliest burial dates to 1803. The cemetery includes a small, one story brick chapel built in 1905. [2]