Spencer Leak, Jr. spent four decades working at his family business, Leak & Sons Funeral Homes. He died Sunday at age 56. As the country sits on the precipice of its 250th birthday, Chicago’s leg...
He rose to be vice president of the Chicago funeral home at 23 in 1993, 60 years after his grandfather started the business. Spencer Leak Jr., one of the leaders of the Chicago funeral titan Leak and ...
The poor widow has been through enough already. Dear Abby: I have witnessed many events at funerals that shouldn’t happen but seem to continue to happen. An example is a woman who has had a child with...
We’re in the final stretch! Ready to recognize your favorite local businesses? Submit your nominations for Akron Community’s Choice Awards today. Editor’s note: The Akron Community’s Choic...
Pioneer businessman Stephen M. Smith came to Spokane in 1889 after growing up in Pittsford, New York, where he went to the College of Embalming in New York City to learn the funeral business. When he ...
Scandals in Colorado’s funeral home industry have shaken communities like metro Denver, Montrose and Pueblo. Now, professionals are trying to rebuild trust. Mike Dudley can usually pick up on so...
A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison for cheating customers and defrauding the fed...
A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for cheating customers and defrauding the feder...
A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building is asking for leniency ahead of her sentencing in federal court. Carie Hallford says she...
DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building is asking for leniency when she is sentenced Monday, saying she was a “sca...
