Funeral Rule Review: Comments

  1. George Silva, Competitive Caskets, Inc. [Comment 01]
  2. James. M. St. George, ConsumerCasket USA, Inc. [Comment 02]
  3. Maynard Cheris, Impressive Casket [Comment 03]
  4. G. Tomlinson Stradling, III, Stradling Funeral Homes, Inc. [Comment 04]
  5. Cletus J. Hansen, State of Wisconsin Department of Regulation & Licensing [Comment 05]
  6. Thomas R. Burke, Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of Omaha [Comment 06]
  7. George Silva, Competitive Caskets, Inc. [Comment 07]
  8. Don Watters, Watters Cemetery Memorials [Comment 08]
  9. Patrick Allen [Comment 09]
  10. Kevin Gray, Direct Casket (2 E-mailed comments) [Comment 10a][Comment 10b]
  11. Betty Brown, A Team Masters Casket Store [Comment 11]
  12. Stewart David Greenlee [Comment 12]
  13. Robert Ceremsak [Comment 13]
  14. Robert L. Creal, Licensed Funeral Director [Comment 14]
  15. Caryl J. Arnet, Arnet’s Inc. [Comment 15]
  16. Thiem Nguyen V., Tobia Casket [Comment 16]
  17. Charles Graves, Evans Casket Store [Comment 17]
  18. Evelyn and Richard Rapozo, American Casket Company [Comment 18]
  19. Charles E. Schumer, United States Senate [Comment 19]
  20. Clifford L. Hornsby, Jr. [Comment 20]
  21. Hilton Peel [Comment 21]
  22. FD1292, Licensed Funeral Director [Comment 22]
  23. Tim Wilt [Comment 23]
  24. Kevin M. Bean, Licensed Funeral Director [Comment 24]
  25. Howard S. Robertson, Funeral & Memorial Society of Monterey Bay [Comment 25]
  26. Don Fredrick, Funeral Director [Comment 26]
  27. John T. McQueen, An independent funeral establishment [Comment 27]
  28. Inge W. Horowitz, Emek Sholom Holocaust Memorial Cemetery [Comment 28]
  29. Sam J. Elkins, Funeral & Memorial Society of Chattanooga [Comment 29]
  30. Brian L. Cotter, Davis Mortuary [Comment 30]
  31. Mercille Wells, Channel Cities Memorial Society, Inc. [Comment 31]
  32.  J. Duran Sellers, Licensed Funeral Director [Comment 32]
  33. Doris Sandy [Comment 33]
  34. Wye Hale-Rowe [Comment 34]
  35. Bruce N. Catlett [Comment 35]
  36. F. Leon Duke [Comment 36]
  37. Susan G. Glaser, Glaser Enterprises, Inc. [Comment 37]
  38. Patricia Martin, M.S.W., Casket Royale of Kentucky [Comment 38]
  39. George Silva, Competitive Caskets, Inc. [Comment 39]
  40. Roy M. Smith [Comment 40]
  41. William R. Noto, Eulogy International [Comment 41]
  42. Charles A. Graham, Licensed Funeral Director/Registered Embalmer [Comment 42]
  43. Donald M. Pence [Comment 43]
  44. Abbey Memorial Association [Comment 44]
  45. Julius and Edith Falwell [Comment 45]
  46. Joseph Ernest Pray, Pray Funeral Home, Inc. [Comment 46]
  47. Pamela Scott, Kansas Funeral Directors and Embalmers Assoc., Inc. 
    ("KFDA") [Comment 47]
  48. Maynard Cheris, National Casket Retailers Association, Inc. [Comment 48]
  49. Pat Graham, Graham Funeral Home [Comment 49]
  50. Linda M. Johnson [Comment 50]
  51. Thomas Oswald, Oswald Memorials [Comment 51]
  52. David A. Kesner, Gendernalik Funeral Home, Inc. [Comment 52]
  53. Gerald H. (Skip) Mikell, Sr., Suburban Funeral Home, Inc. [Comment 53]
  54. Brian R. Davis, Directors Investment Group, Inc. ("DIG") [Comment 54]
  55. James E. Peterson, Funeral Consumer Society of Colorado [Comment 55]
  56. Edith S. Brower, New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs [Comment 56]
  57. Billie Watson Hughes, The Independent Funeral Directors Association of the District of Columbia [Comment 57]
  58. Edith Churchman, Ph.D., National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association, Inc. [Comment 58]
  59. Peggy F. Porter [Comment 59]
  60. Philip L. Minard, Obsequy Associates, LLC [Comment 60]
  61. Arthur R. Angel, Abel, Musser, Sokolosky Mares & Kouri [Comment 61]
  62. John D. Vassar, Vassar-Rawls Funeral Home, Inc. [Comment 62]
  63. Robert R. Johnson [Comment 63]
  64. Ernest Landauer, Bay Area Funeral Society [Comment 64]
  65. Edward Yee [Comment A01] See Note 2 
  66. Richard F. Cody, Resthaven Memorial Gardens [Comment A02]
  67. Jules Polonetsky, New York City Department of Consumer Affairs [Comment A03]
  68. William Withenmidt [Comment A-04]
  69. Norma R. Rees [Comment A-05]
  70. Jeffrey Spear, Hansen-Spear Funeral Home [Comment A-06]
  71. T. V. Picraux Jr. [Comment A-07]
  72. [Comment A-08]
  73. Frank David DeBor, Esq., DeBor Funeral Home, Inc. [Comment A-09]
  74. Robert W. Ninker, Funeral Ethics Association [Comment A-10] 
  75. Glen V. Ayers, State of California Cemetery and Funeral Program [Comment A-11]
  76. Dennis L. Goethe, Schrader Funeral Home, Inc. [Comment A-12]
  77. Robert G. Donald, Bay Area Burial Group [Comment A-13]
  78. Harry C. Neel, Jefferson Memorial Cemetery and Funeral Home [Comment A-14]
  79. Val J. Franz [Comment A-15]
  80. Apalm0226 [Comment A-16]
  81. Dean Magliocca, Affordable Monuments & Caskets [Comment A-17]
  82. Ernest C. Adams, Jr., Funeral Service Professional [Comment A-18]
  83. Roger Adams [Comment A-19]
  84. William S. French, Jr., Virginia Cemetery Board [Comment A-20]
  85. John Levi [Comment A-21]
  86. Sam McKeever [Comment A-22]
  87. Infinity Caskets [Comment A-23]
  88. Jim Broussard Jr., Broussard's Mortuary [Comment A-24]
  89. Pete Van Wassberge, Jr. [Comment A-25]
  90. Norma M. Vodanovich [Comment A-26]
  91. G. Tomlinson Stradling III, The International Order of the Golden Rule [Comment A-27]
  92. June J. Ordes [Comment A-28]
  93. Kevin Gray, Direct Casket [Comment A-29]
  94. John E. Carpenter, Diocese of Toledo [Comment A-30]
  95. John O. Mitchell IV, Mitchell-Wiedefeld Home, Inc. [Comment A-31]
  96. John G. McCune, Jr. [Comment A-32]
  97. Frederick H. Kitchen, Funeral Director/Embalmer [Comment A-33]
  98. David T. Froelich, Illinois Funeral Directors Association [Comment A-34]
  99. John S. Wallenstein, New York State Monument Builders Association [Comment A-35]
  100. Kerry John Anzalone [Comment A-36]
  101. Blanche Richardson [Comment A-37]
  102. Irwin W. Shipper, International Cemetery and Funeral Association ("ICFA") [Comment A-38]
    Attachment [PDF 407K]
  103. Ronald G. E. Smith, Ph.D., (On behalf of ICFA) [Comment A-39]
  104. David Simich, California Monument Association [Comment A-40]
  105. Peter A. Stefan, Graham, Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors [Comment A-41]
  106. Walmck@aol.com, [Comment A-42]
  107. Bradly T. Johnson, Shultz-Vogel-Johnson Mortuary [Comment A-43]
  108. David Coughran, [Comment A-44]
  109. Craig Brown, [Comment A-45]
  110. Blair Nelsen, Nelsen Funeral Home [Comment A-46]
  111. Barry Rubin, The Casket Store [Comment A-47]
  112. Karen Leonard/Bob Treuhaft, (On behalf of Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death) [Comment A-48]
  113. Carter Wagoner, Advent Funeral and Cremation Services [Comment A-49]
  114. Doris Carlton, [Comment A-50]
  115. Robert Karlin, California Casket [Comment A-51]
  116. Mercedes Bern-Klug, Funeral & Memorial Society of Greater Kansas City [Comment A-52]
  117. Barry M. Taira, Caskets & Urns For Less [Comment A-53]
  118. Michael P.A. Cohen, National Selected Morticians [Comment A-54]
  119. Jeff Kramer, AARP [Comment A-55]
  120. T. Scott Gilligan, National Funeral Directors Association ("NFDA") [Comment A-56]
  121. John M. Peterson, Monument Builders of North America [Comment A-57]
  122. Harry I. Lapin, Cremation Association of North America ("CANA") [Comment A-58]
  123. Service Corporation International ("SCI") [Comment A-59]
  124. John O. Norquist, Mayor, City of Milwaukee [Comment A-60]
  125. David N. Swim, Casket Gallery Showrooms [Comment A-61]
  126. David Lew, The Casket Outlet [Comment A-62]
  127. James O. Pinkerton, Orion C. Pinkerton Funeral Home, Inc. [Comment A-63]
  128. Robert Prestatt, [Comment A-64]
  129. Dennis N. Britson, North American Cemetery Regulators Association ("NCRA") [Comment A-65]
  130. Bill Collier, Collier Casket Co. [Comment A-66]
  131. Jed Hendrickson, Santa Barbara Monumental Co., Inc. [Comment A-67]
  132. Richard Lamb, Richard Lamb Funeral Service & Resource Center [Comment A-68]
  133. Larry Chedotal, Sr., Restlawn Park Cemetery & Mausoleum, Inc. [Comment A-69]
  134. Charles E. Davis, Association of Independent Funeral Directors of Florida [Comment A-70]
  135. Robert C. Caudle, [Comment A-71]
  136. William P. Conway, Western Cemetery Alliance [Comment A-72]
  137. William P. Conway, Interment Association of California [Comment A-73]
  138. Wanda Upper, Arborcrest Memorial Park & Chapel Mausoleum [Comment A-74]
  139. Betty Brown, National Casket Retailer's Association ("NCR") [Attachment] [Comment A-75]
  140. Lisa Carlson, Funeral and Memorial Societites of America ("FAMSA") [Comment A-76] [Attachment]
  141. Carla J. Stovall, State of Kansas, Office of the Attorney General [Comment A-77]
  142. Kathie Milligan [Comment A-78]
  143. Carolyn Jacobi, Eternal Justice [Comment A-79]
  144. Morris Nilsen, Minnesota Funeral Directors Association [Comment A-80]
  145. Elmer Feldheim, [Comment A-81]
  146. Charles E. Evans, John H. Evans Funeral Home [Comment A-82]
  147. Don Kim, Rainbow Casket Company [Comment A-83]
  148. Stephanie Lawrence, [Comment A-84]
  149. Thomas Crean, Family Funeral Home Association [Comment A-85]
  150. Robert A. McAdams, Twin Cities Cremation [Comment A-86]
  151. Larry R. Kaplan, National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators [Comment A-87]
  152. Harold Goyette, Lewis E. Wint and Son Funeral Home [Comment A-88]
  153. Richard F. Cody, Resthaven Memorial Gardens [Comment A-89]

Note 1: Not all referenced attachments are included in electronic form. Copies are available from the the FTC's Consumer Response Center, Room 130, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580; 202-FTC-HELP (202-382-4357).

Note 2: All comments received after publication of the Federal Register Notice announcing the extension of the comment period were renumbered starting with "01." To avoid confusion, these comments are designated as "A01," etc.