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The Kentucky Cemetery Association would like to dedicate this newsletter
to our member suppliers. We are grateful for all the contributions (financial
and voluntary) they make to our various events and it would make us proud
if and when you decided to purchase any item for your cemetery, you would
rely on their services first.
AMERICAN CEMETERY SUPPLIES, INC. American Cemetery Supplies, Inc. is a full-service company offering a wide range of quality cemetery and funeral supplies at the lowest possible prices. ACS (American Cemetery Supplies, Inc.) has over 37 years of experience in the industry and prides itself on providing quality service and satisfaction to its customers. Our products include tents, chairs, chair covers, cranks, cremation supplies, drapes, grave boards, and grass/matting, lowering devices, trash receptacles, vault supplies and much more. We also distribute Church and Chapel, Ferno, Frigid, and all major death care industry product lines. At American Cemetery Supplies, Inc., we strive to offer divine, pristine and quality services to your families without spending a fortune. CASKET ROYALE OF KENTUCKY Since 1997, Casket Royale of KY has been providing quality funeral products to families at significant savings. The Federal Trade Commission ruled that funeral homes must accept and use products provided by retailers: reducing the overall cost significantly on funeral arrangements. Families are now able to shop outside of the funeral home for what is often the most expensive portion of the arrangement. As a retail supplier of funeral related products, our beautiful showroom is fully stocked with a large selection of caskets, monuments, urns, burial containers, and many other funeral related items, all available for immediate delivery. CEMETERY FUNERAL SUPPLY In the early 1980's, Cemetery Funeral Supply began manufacturing and distributing cemetery and funeral home equipment and supplies. Our plant located in Cherrylog, GA manufactures tents, grass, chair covers, drapes, lowering device stands and infant cremation stands. We also distribute merchandise made by other companies. These include caskets lowering devices, vault lowering devices, and vault handling equipment, lot markers, and dump trailers, mausoleum lifts and chapel equipment. We guarantee all sales to customer satisfaction. EVERLASTING GRANITE COMPANY Established in 1972, Everlasting Granite Memorial specializes in timeless quality memorials. Products include dies, bases, slants, bevels, grass markers, benches (cremation and memorial), ledgers, all polished round turned granite and marble vases, single and double crypt mausoleums in stock, columbarium's, bronze memorials and the largest inventory of granite bases for bronze in the Southeast. Over fifty granite colors. We offer computerized layouts at no charge. Please call our office for a price list and brochures. GRANIT-BRONZ In 1880, Henry Nair Alexander, a 32-year-old stoneworker from Inverurie, Scotland, came to the United States. He brought with him a desire to explore this country's fledgling stone industry, advanced quarrying and stone cutting skills, a work ethic that would set the tone for his own company, and strong beliefs in family, religion, and education. Alexander returned to Scotland for one year in 1884. In 1886 he was joined in Boston by his fiancée, Maggie Milne; there they married and then traveled to Central Minnesota where he worked with other Scottish stone men. Henry Alexander established a small granite company with several of them, 100 years in the future that company has become internationally recognized as Cold Spring Granite Company. With the ongoing support of its employees, many of them second and third generation, Cold Spring maintains a position as the largest granite quarrying and fabrication operations in the world. HOLLAND SUPPLY Holland Supply has been servicing the Death Care Industry since 1962. We have built our company by meeting customer's needs and offering products with true value. We manufacture a large number of products including all varieties of tents, drapes, chair covers, grass, stands, roller bars, dump trailers, lot markers, straps and much more. We also distribute hundreds of other products, many of which are hard to find items. Because we manufacture many of the products we sell, we can ensure the highest quality products with unsurpassed service at very aggressive prices. Our Customer Service department is ready to help you. INGRAM CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. J. D. Ingram founded Ingram Construction in 1978. After many years in mausoleum construction, he assembled a team of experienced professionals who were dedicated to the American cemeteries. These cemeterians deserve a mausoleum builder small enough to be sensitive to their needs, yet large enough to design and build any mausoleum. More than 350 handcrafted, beautiful mausoleums later, this philosophy still holds true. Ingram's team of landscape architects, architects, craftsmen and construction specialists delivers excellence, quality and service. This Ingram tradition is your tradition. Together, we provide the best aboveground entombment for the American people - who deserve only the best. KERNCO EQUIPMENT & SUPPLY, INC. Since 1965, Kernco Equipment & Supply, Inc. has been providing to increasingly more cemeteries, mausoleums, and burial-vault companies a wide variety of quality items including casket lifts, Mud-Traks, greens, tents, lot markers and lowering devices. More than just a supply company, Kernco has become the largest, most competent and most reputable repairer and refinisher of lowering devices in the eastern United States - and the only such company the manufacturer (Frigid Fluid Co.) has ever endorsed in writing and otherwise. Since the qualities of various items vary more than their prices, many have found that the lowest price is rarely a true bargain. But Kernco continues to provide the best overall value: top quality and prompt, personal service (far exceeding that of telemarketers and mail-order companies) at competitive prices - and stands behind everything it sells and services. MATHERLY CEMETERY DESIGN SERVICES Its current owner and president, Al L. Matherly, PLS, founded Matherly Cemetery Design Services. Mr. Matherly has over 25 years of experience in the area of land planning and design. Our imaginative and creative plans have earned us a reputation for quality designs that maximize property potential. Over the years, we have provided successful, well-planned designs for private, municipal and church-owned cemeteries. Our experience includes expanding existing cemeteries, as well as developing new ones. Our approach to cemetery design is to create a park-like setting that is attractive to the eye and easy to maintain. We know that a successful cemetery must look good to the public and it must be profitable for the cemeterian. We do not use cookie cutter designs, as we believe that each cemetery is unique and should be treated as such. We take pride in the quality of our designs and our attention to client satisfaction. Matherly Cemetery Design Services is unique in that our full range of services allows us to handle multiple tasks. We are involved throughout all phases of the project, which keeps the project on track and on time. Some firms may furnish master or section plans, then put the responsibility on you to locate local sources for such things as construction or zoning matters. Our services, however, are available from the start of the project until its completion. Because our participation in projects is from start to finish means greater involvement, we reserve ourselves to designing a limited number of cemeteries in any year. We are most concerned with preserving the quality of our work, and not in quantity. Our specialists are active members of various professional associations, and the company is fully insured. MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION Matthews International Corporation entered the history books in 1850 when an English immigrant named John Dixon Matthews began producing steel stamps, branding irons and other marking devices from a small shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Through the years, Matthews pioneered products and technologies that have revolutionized the way the world identifies people, places, products and events. One of the company's most significant advancements occurred in 1927 with the production of the first flush bronze memorial. This product radically changed the memorialization industry and helped to advance the memorial park concept in the United States. Acquisitions during the past five years have allowed Matthews to penetrate new markets and diversify its memorial product lines to include finely-detailed statuary (Caggiati); upright granite monuments in unique shapes and colors (Granite Resources); cremation equipment, accessories and memorialization (Industrial Equipment & Engineering and ALL Crematory Corporation); and mausoleum design and construction services (Gibraltar Mausoleum Construction Company). All of these products and services have positioned the company to meet customers' diverse product and service needs and to take the lead in future memorialization trends. REPOSE CEMETERY SOLUTIONS Repose Cemetery Solutions, a service of Roberts Consulting, provides cemeteries with a complete solution for managing their cemetery records. In addition to custom software built on Microsoft database technology, we provide: (1) Data Collection - "walking" a cemetery to collect information from headstones. Individuals collecting data must be accurate, eliminating as many errors as possible. We can provide this service or we can provide training and materials outlining the steps necessary to complete this process successfully. (2) Data Conversion - If you have already purchased cemetery software and would like to migrate your data to our platform, we can help. If conversion software is not available, RCS may be able to develop conversion software for you. (3) Mapping - The process of mapping a cemetery into smaller, more manageable areas. We suggest that this process be done on foot during the data collection process. This allows lots to be any shape needed, for example, circular lots, triangular lots, or lots of irregular shape and it insures lot lines are in synch with surrounding lots. Our goal is to develop a map that is as close to the real layout of the cemetery as possible. Maps may be purchased in paper format or in GIS format. (4) Data Entry - RCS has a team of data entry personnel. We can enter your burial, purchase and other information into the database, or provide training to enable your staff to do so. (5) Training - We provide on-site training for the software solution. (6) Support - Help with the software is available either by phone or on-site. Maintenance and upgrade contracts are available. STAR GRANITE CO., INC. Star Granite Company is a full-service granite memorialization company
that has catered to the death-care industry since 1945. Our comprehensive
product lines include granite bases for bronze memorials, monuments, cremation
and memorial benches. We also produce custom designed granite entrance
signs, granite features, columbarium units and family estate private mausoleums.
Our client-driven attitude is focused on top quality consistently, blended
service beyond our customer's expectations. To ensure excellent service,
when we deliver your order, our tractor-trailers are equipped with hydraulic
cranes for easy and safe unloading. Our prices are competitive - granite
quality and workmanship are superior. SUPERIOR VAULT CO., INC. In 1969, the Grayson family opened a burial vault company called Superior Vault Company. In 1992, Paul Grayson began managing the vault company located in Charlestown, Indiana. In 1997, the Grayson's opened the Lexington, Kentucky office to service the Lexington and surrounding areas. Superior Vault Company manufactures Doric brand of burial vaults throughout Southeastern Indiana and Central Kentucky. Superior also manufactures all types of outer concrete containers and distributes AIS (Vantage) polypropylene burial vaults, urn vaults and lawn crypt systems. In 1992, Superior Crematory was established. It has developed into the largest crematory in Southeastern Indiana. They offer cremation service with removal and return service, urns and urn vaults to more than 75 Funeral Homes throughout Indiana and Kentucky. STRUCTURES OF SIGNIFICANCE *Editor's note: |