Funeral Consumers Alliance
- Funeral Consumers Alliance
Funeral Consumers Alliance is a nonprofit federation of organizations ("memorial societies" or "funeral planning societies") in the United States and Canada "dedicated to protectinga consumer's right to choose a meaningful, dignified, affordable funeral." Based in South Burlington, Vermont, it was founded in 1963. Its oldest (and founding) member is the Seattle-based People's Memorial Association, founded on January 12, 1939. [http://www.peoples-memorial.org/docs/PMA_history.pdf]
External links
* [http://www.funerals.org/ FCA] Funeral Consumers Alliance
* [http://www.peoples-memorial.org/ PMA] Peoples Memorial Organization
* [http://BartonFuneral.com/ Seattle Funerals and Cremations] Barton Family Funeral Services
* [http://www.treesinstead.com/ Memorial Trees]
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