April 2021

Page B4 APRIL 2021 FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS Se c t i on B Funeral Home Owner David Swick Wins January Private Label Casket Giveaway Winning Casket for January: Private Label “Remington” featuring high- gloss mahogany hardwood exterior with eggshell velvet interior. David “Dee” Swick, owner of D.W. Swick Funeral Homes in Southern Ohio, is the January winner of the “Say Yes to Success” Free Casket Giveaway by Private Label. INDIANAPOLIS,IN—Private Label Casket has announced the winner of their January “Say Yes To Success” casket giveaway. The winner, David “Dee” Swick is the owner of four D.W. Swick Funeral Homes locations serv- ing Southern Ohio and North- ern Kentucky. Swick received the Private La- bel “Remington” mahogany cas- ket with the eggshell velvet in- terior. Sharon Myers, regional sales consultant, was there for the casket delivery. “I saw their Facebook ad with the big red “Win a Casket” but- ton and decided why not give it a shot and see what happens. Who wouldn’t want a chance to win a free casket?” said Swick. “I nev- er thought I’d win so I was re- ally surprised when I found out. Obviously, I’m glad I took the time to enter. It’s a windfall for our funeral homes. The casket in the ad looked like the quality of casket that I’d be pleased to put on my showroom floor. In fact, I know exactly where it will go.” Swick, a long-time industry veteran, has been serving the families in his communities for the past 35 years after having managed a number of SCI loca- tions in Houston, TX. Swick is the first person to win a Private Label casket as part of the “Say Yes To Success” monthly casket giveaway, which runs from January until April 2021. “When I found out, I told my wife ‘I won a free casket!’ How did that happen since I nev- er win anything,” said Swick. “For most people hearing that they won a free casket, it doesn’t sound like much, but to a funeral home owner, that’s music to our ears.” To learn more about the monthly drawing and to enter, visit https://privatelabelcaskets.com/ sayyes . Participants need only enter one time to be registered for all the drawings. Private Label Caskets, a member of the Bu- chanan Group of companies, serves funeral homes and distributors throughout the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. The brand is a smart, customer-centric alternative to the more expensive, big-name casket brands. Pri- vate Label’s caskets and urns include a mix of imported and domestic products, and are of- fered in wide range of popular, high-quality wood and metal models. Seven regional ware- house locations, supplied with thousands of products, provide for product availability and on-time delivery of caskets and urns through- out North America. For more information, visit www.privatelabelcaskets.com. Passare ® announces New Integration with Legacy.com ABILENE,TX— Passare, Inc is ex- cited to announce a brand-new inte- gration with Legacy.com that makes it easier than ever for funeral homes to publish online obituaries. “When we introduced Passare’s pub- lic API in early 2020, our goal was to partner with websites that our cus- tomers use every day,” said Josh Mc- Queen, vice president of product at Passare. “Legacy.com has had a mas- sive impact on the funeral industry and the online obituary space, so we were thrilled to have the opportunity to work together to impact the future of the industry.” This integration means that Passare customers will be able to send obitu- ary and public service details to Legacy. com with the click of a button. “Legacy’s core mission is to make sure every life story lives on,” said Antonio Esposito, chief product officer at Leg- acy.com. “Our new integration with Passare ensures we can achieve that goal in a way that’s easy for our funeral home partners and their families.” Tom Antram, president and CEO of French Funerals & Cremations, said, “Legacy has the audience our homes want and need to be in front of, every single day. This integration with Pas- sare brings us there, streamlining our operations by placing our notices di- rectly onto Legacy’s powerful distribu- tion network. The results: more brand- ing, more traffic to our sites, and new e-commerce opportunities for us.” “Our goal with every integration is to help funeral home staff save time on data entry and work more efficient- ly,” added McQueen. “We’re proud to partner with Legacy.com because they’re a trusted company of our fu- neral homes and funeral homes across the globe.” Passare offers the funeral profession’s only cloud-based collaboration soft- ware with integrated business manage- ment tools. Through Passare, funeral directors can connect and communi- cate with families, streamline processes, and access case information anytime, anywhere, using any internet-con- nected device. Offering unlimited us- ers, unlimited devices, and unlimit- ed updates, Passare is helping funeral staff to save time, streamline process- es, and spend more quality time with the families they serve and with their own families at home. For more infor- mation, go to www.passare.com to re- quest a demo. Legacy.com is the global leader in digital obituaries, serving 40 million users each month. They partner with thousands of local news providers and funeral homes in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, delivering in- novative memorialization solutions that help families everywhere honor and remember their loved ones. Lega- cy’s partners benefit from unparalleled scale and expertise, innovative e-com- merce services, and award-winning customer support. Legacy is headquar- tered in Chicago, IL. Visit http:/ /new. legacy.com for more information. Gather releases its First Case Study BOISE,ID— Gather, an innovative case management platform and live streaming solution built specifically for funeral homes, has announced the release of their first case study in partnership with Tytus Cornejo, funeral di- rector and owner of Core Cremation in Wichita, KS and Cornejo Funeral Home in Wellington, KS. Tytus shares how he never really planned on being a fu- neral director. He was going to business school, and ended up receiving an unexpected opportunity to spend his eve- ning and weekends helping out at a funeral home for extra cash. Little did he know that this side job would be the start of his career in the funeral industry. A natural at building relationships and being of service to people, he was quickly recruited to put his kindness and smart business nature to- wards being a first-generation funeral director in his family. 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