NFDA would like to congratulate the following 2009 Pursuit of Excellence^® Award recipients:

Alabama

• K.L. Brown Memory Chapel Anniston, Ala.
• Laughlin Service Funeral Home, Inc. Huntsville, Ala.
• Morrison Funeral Homes, Inc. Tuscumbia, Ala.

Arkansas

• Cobb Funeral Home Blytheville, Ark.
• Heritage Memorial Funeral Home Waldron, Ark.
• Humphrey Funeral Service, Inc. Russellville, Ark.
• Roller Funeral Home Mountain Home, Ark.
• Roller-Ballard Funeral Home Benton, Ark.
• Roller-Chenal Funeral Home Little Rock, Ark.
• Roller-Daniel Funeral Home Searcy, Ark.
• Roller-McNutt Funeral Home Conway, Ark.
• Roller-Owens Funeral Home North Little Rock, Ark.

Arizona

• Adair Funeral Homes, Inc. Tucson, Ariz.
• Bring Funeral Home, Inc. Tucson, Ariz.
• Evergreen Mortuary, Cemetery & Crematory Tucson, Ariz.

Colorado

• Aspen Mortuaries Lakewood, Colo.
• Crist Mortuary and Mountain View Memorial Park Boulder , Colo.
• Olinger Andrews Caldwell Gibson Funeral Chapel Castle Rock, Colo.
• Olinger Chapel Hill Mortuary & Cemetery Littleton, Colo.
• Olinger Crown Hill Mortuary and Cemetery Denver, Colo.
• Olinger Hampden Mortuary and Cemetery Denver, Colo.
• Olinger Highland Mortuary and Cemetery Thornton, Colo.
• Olinger Moore Howard Chapel Denver, Colo.
• Olinger Woods Chapel Golden, Colo.

Connecticut

• Bailey Funeral Home Plainville, Conn.
• Burritt Hill Funeral Home New Britain, Conn.
• Carmon Community Funeral Homes Windsor, Conn.
• D'Esopo East Hartford Memorial Chapel East Hartford, Conn.
• D'Esopo Funeral Chapel Wethersfield, Conn.
• Ladd-Turkington & Carmon Funeral Home Vernon, Conn.
• Newington Memorial Funeral Home Newington, Conn.

Georgia

• A.S. Turner & Sons Funeral Home Decatur , Ga.
• Caldwell & Cowan Funeral Home Covington, Ga.
• Cannon-Cleveland Funeral Directors McDonough, Ga.
• Gamble Funeral Service Savannah, Ga.
• Hightower's Memorial Chapel Douglasville, Ga.
• Jones-Wynn Funeral Home, Villa Rica Chapel Villa Rica, Ga.
• Jones-Wynn Funeral Home, Douglas Chapel Douglasville, Ga.

Iowa

• Hackett-Livingston Funeral Home Shenandoah, Iowa
• Lentz Funeral Home Algona, Iowa
• Ochiltree Funeral Service & Aftercare Winterset, Iowa
• Roland Funeral Service, Inc. Atlantic , Iowa

Illinois

• Heartland Memorial Center - Traditional Funeral Home & Full Service Cremation Facility Tinley Park, Ill.
• Henderson Funeral Home Pekin, Ill.
• Preston-Hanley Funeral Homes, LLC Pekin, Ill.
• Reeves Funeral Homes, Ltd. Coal City, Ill.
• Staab Polk Memorial Home - Cremation Services of Central Illinois Chatham, Ill.
• Targhetta & Wooldridge Funeral Home Brighton, Ill.
• Wilson-McReynolds Funeral Home Marion, Ill.

Indiana

• DeMoney-Grimes Countryside Park Funeral Home Columbia City, Ind.
• Erlewein Mortuary Greenfield, Ind.
• French Funeral Home Brazil, Ind.
• Moore Funeral Home Brazil, Ind.

Kansas

• Cozine Memorial Group Wichita , Kan.
• Carson-Wall Funeral Homes Parsons , Kan.
• Garnand Funeral Chapel, Inc. Ulysses, Kan.
• Garnand Funeral Home, Inc. Garden City, Kan.
• Larrison Mortuary, Ltd. Pratt, Kan.

Kentucky

• Arnett & Steele Funeral Home, Inc. Pineville, Ky.
• Highlands Family Owned Funeral Home, Inc. Louisville, Ky.
• Linnemann Funeral Home Erlanger, Ky.
• Milward Funeral Directors Lexington, Ky.

Louisiana

• Kilpatrick Funeral Homes West Monroe, La.

Massachusetts

• Buma Funeral Homes Milford , Mass.
• Kapinos-Mazur Funeral Home Ludlow, Mass.

Maryland

• Fellows, Helfenbein & Newnam Funeral Home, P.A. Easton, Md.

Michigan

• A.H. Peters Funeral Home Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.
• A.J. Desmond & Sons Funeral Directors Troy, Mich.
• David C. Brown Funeral Home Belleville, Mich.
• Gorsline-Runciman Funeral Homes Lansing , Mich.
• Lynch & Sons Funeral Directors Clawson, Mich.
• Lynch & Sons Funeral Directors Milford , Mich.
• Martin Funeral Home Fairgrove, Mich.
• Martin Funeral Home Vassar, Mich.
• Miles Martin Funeral Home Mount Morris, Mich.
• Pray Funeral Home Charlotte, Mich.
• Ransford Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc. Caro, Mich.
• Reynolds-Jonkhoff Funeral Home and Cremation Services Traverse City, Mich.
• S.K. Schultz Funeral Home Clinton Township, Mich.
• S.K. Schultz Funeral Home Eastpointe, Mich.
• Spencer Family Funeral Home Athens, Mich.
• Wm. Sullivan & Son Funeral Home Royal Oak, Mich.
• Wm. Sullivan & Son Funeral Home Utica, Mich.

Minnesota

• Dobratz-Hantge Chapel Hutchinson, Minn.
• Egesdal Funeral Home Gaylord, Minn.
• Glende-Nilson Funeral Home Fergus Falls, Minn.
• Johnson-Hagglund Funeral Home Litchfield, Minn.
• Joseph Vertin & Sons Funeral Home Breckenridge, Minn.
• Kok Funeral Home Cottage Grove, Minn.
• Mattson Funeral Home & Cremation Service Forest Lake, Minn.
• Worlein Funeral Home Austin, Minn.

Missouri

• Cozean Memorial Chapel Farmington, Mo.
• Holman-Howe Funeral Homes Lebanon, Mo.

Mississippi

• Waller Funeral Home Oxford, Miss.

North Carolina

• Drum Funeral Home & Cremation Services Conover, N.C.
• Shuler Funeral Home Hendersonville, N.C.
• Twiford Funeral Homes, Memorial Chapel Elizabeth City, N.C.
• Wilkerson Funeral Home Reidsville, N.C.

North Dakota

• Hanson-Runsvold Funeral Home Fargo, N.D.
• West Funeral Homes, Inc. West Fargo, N.D.

New Hampshire

• Davis Funeral Home Nashua, N.H.

New Jersey

• Feeney Funeral Home Ridgewood, N.J.
• Hunt-Stellato Funeral Home Fort Lee, N.J.
• Ippolito-Stellato Funeral Home Fairfield, N.J.
• Ippolito-Stellato Funeral Home Lyndhurst, N.J.

New Mexico

• French Mortuary Albuquerque, N.M.

New York

• Ballard-Durand Funeral Home White Plains, N.Y.
• The Branch Funeral Home Smithtown, N.Y.
• Dimbleby, Friedel, Williams & Edmunds Funeral Homes New Hartford, N.Y.
• Moloney Funeral Home Central Islip, N.Y.
• Robertaccio Funeral Home, Inc. Patchogue, N.Y.
• Savage Funeral Service Binghamton, N.Y.

Ohio

• Baird Funeral Home Troy, Ohio
• Bayliff & Son Funeral Home, Inc. - Cridersville Crematory Cridersville, Ohio
• Brucker & Kishler Funeral Home Newark , Ohio
• Cassaday-Turkle-Christian Funeral & Cremation Service Alliance, Ohio
• Cunningham-Becker Funeral Homes Poland, Ohio
• Ducro Funeral Services & Crematory Ashtabula, Ohio
• Dwayne R. Spence Funeral Home Pickerington, Ohio
• Higgins-Reardon Funeral Home Youngstown, Ohio
• Morman Funeral Home Wakeman, Ohio
• Routsong Funeral Home Kettering, Ohio
• Schoedinger & Company Columbus, Ohio
• Sharer-Stirling-Skivolocke Funeral Home Alliance, Ohio
• Toland-Herzig Funeral Homes & Crematory Dover, Ohio
• Vensil-Orr & Chute Funeral Home Newark, Ohio
• Wappner Funeral Directors Mansfield, Ohio
• Wonderly-Horvath-Hanes Funeral Home & Crematory Fremont, Ohio

Oklahoma

• Resthaven Funeral Home Oklahoma City, Okla.
• Strode Funeral Home Stillwater, Okla.

Pennsylvania

• Coston Funeral Homes, Inc. Pittsburgh, Pa.
• Patrick T. Lanigan Funeral Home East Pittsburgh, Pa.

Rhode Island

• Cranston-Murphy Funeral Home North Kingstown, R.I.
• Lachapelle Funeral Home, Inc. Pawtucket, R.I.

South Carolina

• Eggers Funeral Home and Crematory, Inc. Chesnee, S.C.
• The Island Funeral Home & Crematory Hilton Head Island, S.C.
• Thomas McAfee Funeral Home-Downtown Chapel Greenville, S.C.
• Thomas McAfee Funeral Home-Northwest Chapel Greenville, S.C.

Tennessee

• Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Homes & Cremation Services Cookeville, Tenn.
• Sanderson Funeral Home Carthage, Tenn.
• Tetrick Funeral Home Elizabethton, Tenn.

Texas

• Callaway-Jones Funeral Home Bryan, Texas
• Kerrville Funeral Home Kerrville, Texas
• Memorial Funeral Home Edinburg, Texas
• Memorial Funeral Home San Juan, Texas

Utah

• Cottonwood Memorial Mortuary Holladay, Utah
• Deseret Memorial Mortuary Salt Lake City, Utah
• Lake Hills Memorial Mortuary Sandy, Utah
• Memorial Mortuary Salt Lake City, Utah
• Mountain View Mortuary Salt Lake City, Utah
• Myers Mortuary Ogden, Utah
• Myers Mortuary Brigham City, Utah
• Myers Mortuary Layton, Utah
• Myers Mortuary Roy, Utah
• Redwood Memorial Mortuary & Cemetery Salt Lake City, Utah

Washington

• Heritage Funeral Home Spokane, Wash.
• Weeks' Dryer Mortuary Tacoma , Wash.
• Weeks' Enumclaw Funeral Home Enumclaw, Wash.
• Weeks' Funeral Home Buckley, Wash.

Wisconsin

• Carlson Funeral Service, Inc. Rhinelander, Wis.
• Gunderson Funeral Home & Cremation Centers Madison, Wis.
• Helke Funeral Home & Cremation Services Wausau , Wis.
• Lippert-Olson Funeral Home Sheboygan, Wis.
• Swedberg Funeral Home Shawano, Wis.

West Virgina

• Dodd & Reed Funeral Home, Inc. Webster Springs, W. Va.

Wyoming

• Schrader Funeral Home Cheyenne, Wyo.

International

• Heritage Funeral Home Nipawin, SK, Canada