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Program serves first responders who die in the line of duty
Haley McGinnis Funeral Home & Crematory’s roots run back to 1909 as Owensboro Livery & Undertaking.
Today, Nathan and Megan Everly Morris are using their Morris Family Services brand to include funeral homes in six cities in
Kentucky and Indiana. That includes Miller Schapmire Funeral Home in Hartford; Caneyville Memorial Chapel in Caneyville; A. F. Crow & Son Funeral Home in Glasgow; Watson and
Hunt Funeral Home in Leitchfield; and Holders Funeral Home in Owensville, Indiana. The six funeral homes have more than
dogs in training — one for Kentucky and one for Indiana. In 2018, Nathan Morris said, “We had 224 funerals here and more than 500 at all locations. We’ve done Wiccan services. We do whatever the family wants.” And it’s not just humans — Haley McGinnis cremates about 3,500 pets each year. Morris said that’s an important service for those families, too.
40 employees, 17 of them in Owensboro.
Cremations are becoming more common for humans too,
Haley McGinnis has evolved as cultural norms have changed.
cremations.
Funerals today are more celebratory than solemn, Nathan
Morris said. Morris Family Services’ Heroes of Public Safety
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at no cost to the family. The funeral home even has two grief
he said, with roughly half of the funerals this year including
“By 2035, we expect it to be around 70% to 71%,” he said.
Greater Owensboro
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Haley McGinnis, 1909