Miles Odum Funeral Home Waycross Georgia (2024)

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Who owns Miles Odum funeral home? ›

John Odum Hereford, now President, and Jonathan G. Roundtree, Secretary and Treasurer, continue to own and operate the funeral home in day to day operations.

One of the oldest and largest funeral homes in the state of Georgia, Fox & Weeks Funeral Directors began in 1882 when John H. Fox opened an undertaking establishment at 106 West Liberty Street, in what is now the Downtown Historic District.

Harris-Wheless Memorial Funeral Home & Cremation Services located at 122 West Barbee Street, Zebulon, N.C. provides a choice to all eastern region North Carolina: Wake, Johnston, Nash, and Franklin counties.

"The original Kirk & Nice funeral home opened in Philadelphia over 250 years ago, and is America's oldest funeral home. Relocating to the grounds of George Washington Memorial Park in 1999, Kirk & Nice Inc. continues providing quality service to Philadelphia and surrounding region."

Service Corporation International is proud to be North America's leading provider of funeral, cremation and cemetery services. Since 1962, SCI has been serving families during their most difficult, personal and challenging times.

Established in 1998, Australian Heritage Funerals often known as Heritage Funerals, was founded by the McGrath-Colquhoun Family. Since then, we have joined InvoCare and we are proud to be part of Australia's leading provider of dependable, quality funeral services that are affordable.

If the human remains are properly preserved they can be stored for longer periods of time. In most cases, so long as the remains are properly refrigerated, funeral homes can store a body for a few days to a few weeks.

In Georgia, the average cost of a traditional funeral is around $4,500 (without cemetery fees). In Georgia, cremation can cost as little as $895 if you opt for a simple, direct cremation, or it can range up to around $4,000 for a cremation with a service.

Oak Grove Cemetery, Oldest Marked Grave is 1801.

The term funeral parlor (or parlour) was often used in the name of funeral businesses, as it was already associated with end-of-life events. The first funeral parlor or funeral home, Kirk & Nice Funeral Home, actually opened in Philadelphia, Penn., in 1777, and is still in operation today.

What is the largest funeral home in the world? ›

Service Corporation International (SCI) is the largest funeral home company in the world, with a network of over 2,000 locations across the United States and Canada.

Bynes-Royall Funeral Home is the oldest African American funeral home in the United States. The institution dates back to 1878, when Major William H. Royall was employed by a white-owned funeral home in Savannah. This funeral home, like so many at the time, did not serve the African American community.

According to archaeologist Larry Lahren of Livingston, a two-year-old child and dozens of stone artifacts were buried together by late ice-age hunters 11,000 years agoat the base of a rocky bluff along a bend in the upper Shields River.

The earliest evidence of wooden coffin remains, dated at 5000 BC, was found in the Tomb 4 at Beishouling, Shaanxi. Clear evidence of a rectangular wooden coffin was found in Tomb 152 in an early Banpo site. The Banpo coffin belongs to a four-year-old girl; it measures 1.4 m (4.6 ft) by 0.55 m (1.8 ft) and 3–9 cm thick.

By the mid-19th century, the newly emerging profession of businessmen-undertakers – who provided funeral and burial services – began adopting embalming methods as standard. Embalming became more common in the United States during the American Civil War, when servicemen often died far from home.

The Bushelon Funeral Home, Inc. was established in 1975 by Aubrey Bushelon and his family. The establishment is located at 800 14th Street SW in the historic city of Birmingham.

Kevin and Gayla have had ownership involvement since 1998 and through a merger with their business partner, Tom Vertin in 2006, they manage five funeral home locations, Mankato Mortuary, Lake Crystal Mortuary, Saint Peter Funeral Home, Olson-Tichenor Funeral Home Mapleton, Northview North Mankato Mortuary and a ...

Riemann Family Funeral Homes, owned by the Riemann family, operates its business with five convenient locations – in Gulfport, Long Beach, Delisle – Diamondhead, Biloxi, and Ocean Springs.

The Loreto Funeral Complex is owned by Rizzuto's daughter, Maria Renda, and his daughter-in-law Giovanna Cammalleri, according to the Quebec business registry.