Our mission is to serve each family to the absolute best of our ability, along with their friends and to give to the good of our community in which we live and serve. We are poised to serve our families well into this century. All of this is due to our outstanding and dedicated staff.

• Our products and service must always be of the highest quality.
• We must constantly strive to reduce the cost of the delivery of these goods and services.
• Our families and the public must be promptly, efficiently, and compassionately served.
• We must make a fair profit.

Our second responsibility is to those who work with us - the women and men in our funeral home:

• They must have sense of security in their jobs.
• Wages must be fair and adequate, management just, hours reasonable, working conditions clean and orderly.
• Employees should have an organized system for suggestions and complaints.
• Supervisors must be qualified and fair-minded.
• There must be opportunity for advancement - for those qualified and each person must be considered an individual standing on his/her own dignity and merit.

Our third responsibility is to our management:

• Management must be persons of talent, education, experience and ability.
• They must be persons of common sense and full understanding.

Our fourth responsibility is to the communities in which we live:

• We must be a good citizen - support good works and charity and bear our fair share of taxes.
• We must maintain in good order the property we are priveleged to use.
• We must participate in promotion of civic improvement, health, education and good government, and aquaint the community with our activities.

Our fifth responsibility is to our owner:

• Business must make a sound profit.
• Reserves must be created and new ideas be constantly formulated.
• Continuous improvement must be perpetual.
• Adventurous programs developed.
• Mistakes paid for.
• Adverse times must be provided for.
• Adequate taxes paid.
• New equipment purchased.
• Renovations made.
• Subsidiaries launched.
• New sales and services developed.
• We must experiment with new ideas.

When these things have been accomplished, the stockholder should receive a fair return.

We are determined, with the help of God's grace, to fulfill these obligations to the very best of our ability.