WILBERT FUNERAL SERVICES, INC. ANNOUNCES NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH DEATON-KENNEDY COMPANY
BROADVIEW, IL, October 8, 2007 – Wilbert Funeral Services, Inc. has announced a new and exclusive alliance with Deaton-Kennedy Company, (Joliet, Illinois), a leader in the creation and distribution of bereavement stationary.
The partnership combines the two companies’ core strengths to provide funeral firms with more solutions and opportunities as they serve families with an even greater focus on total personalization. Through the collaboration, Wilbert will now offer Deaton-Kennedy’s most popular themed stationary graphics as Wilbert Legacy Custom Seriesä customization choices for burial-vault and urn-vault carapaces.
“Personalization is no longer just an option, but rather the standard that families now expect for their loved one’s graveside service,” said Wilbert President Jim Curran. “We are pleased to announce this resourceful partnership that joins two great companies in providing families with a compelling personalization choice.”
“Our specific stationary themes are often preferred and selected by families to memorialize their loved ones,” Deaton-Kennedy CEO Bob Nobles added. “ Our partnership with Wilbert will allow even more families to feature a memorial-stationary theme as a beautiful graphic reproduction on their vault selection. This is yet one more way that families can achieve total customization for a tribute with richer personal meaning.”
Wilbert has also appointed Deaton-Kennedy as the exclusive distributor of the Wilbert Honor Collectionä memorial ensembles by renowned artist Ray Simon. The elegantly designed ensembles offer matching pieces in seven themes: Motherhood, Fatherhood, Christianity, Firefighters, Law Enforcement, World War II, and the Korean War.
The ensembles corresponding items include a register book, service folders, prayer cards, memorial cards, a floral card, bookmarks, candle wraps, a keepsake print, and a commemorative life panel.
“It is my heartfelt desire that my art help families who experience loss,” said Simon. “Wilbert and Deaton-Kennedy are the funeral profession’s two best companies to offer my personalized art on their excellent products.”
For more information about the Wilbert Legacy Custom Series and the Wilbert Honor Collections programs, please contact Wilbert Funeral Services, Inc. at 1-888-WILBERT. For details about the Deaton-Kennedy Company’s bereavement-stationary products, call 877-434-9035.