Join us in October for a Life-Affirming experience!
This event is sponsored by the First Unitarian Church
​and facilitated by the Oregon Memorial Association.

We'll see you there - Room A108 at the First Unitarian Church!

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Albany's AAsum-Dufour Funeral Home has not been serving Oregon Memorial Association (OMA) members for several months at the current OMA member prices in effect statewide.  During that time we have negotiated in good faith, as required by our February 25, 2014 contract. In late June, after reviewing the new price list OMA is proposing, effective 1 September 2017, the Dufours gave notice they are still unwilling to offer such deep discounts to our members. The contract has been canceled by mutual agreement.

The Albany-Corvallis area formerly served by AAsum-Dufour is within the service area of Salem's Restlawn Funeral Home. Restlawn has been OMA's contract provider since October 2007.  OMA members who have filed their Personal Instruction Forms (PIFs) with AAsum-Dufour can continue to receive OMA member prices by asking AAsum-Dufour or OMA to transfer their PIFs to Restlawn. (Mileage charges will apply outside a 25-mile radius from Salem.)  If you haven't filled out a PIF, or want to change your original instructions, you can download a PIF packet HERE.

Please share your thoughts about Oregon geography vis a vis OMA contracts with funeral homes.  Tell us how this change will affect you.

Restlawn Funeral Home

Here is the first part of an important investigative study made by NPR regarding your rights as a funeral consumer.  Just below is a brief excerpt from the longer article. Thank You, NPR, for your consumer and community advocacy!

"The Funeral Rule, enacted in 1984 after years of resistance by the industry, requires that funeral businesses give consumers an itemized price list when they talk to them in person, and give them clear price information when they ask for it over the phone. The itemized list, known as the general price list, is meant to help consumers pick and choose what they want and filter out what they don't.

In recent years, federal regulators shopping undercover have found about 1 in 4 funeral homes break the rule and fail to disclose price information. That's even though they risk large fines from the federal government."

Written by Peter Smith and posted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette here's an article on the trend towards cremations:

Peter Smith Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [email protected] 9:27 PM May 27, 2017