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Article: Death becomes them. (large funeral care companies taking over funeral homes in Arkansas)
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- November 29, 1993
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Corporate Visitation of Funeral Homes Escalates in $100 Million State Market
WHEN GRANDMA passed on to glory, her children trusted the second-generation funeral home down the lane. Father was buried by the third generation, and the same Arkansas firm was there when his wife shuffled off this mortal coil.
The faces probably will be the same when their children go the way of all flesh, but by that time the venerable company might be owned by someone in Louisiana, Texas or British Columbia.
The giants of the death care business are forming beachheads in Arkansas, attacking a state industry whose roughly 190 funeral homes generate annual revenues of up to ...