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Federal Trade Commission Docket C-4423 (2014) — a federal consent order as the carrier of a cemetery's ownership
What it is: St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park — the ground where this place buries its dead, documented from 1956 — changed hands inside a federal antitrust file. The park's ownership succession, as the Cemeteries file documents it, runs: the Stewart/SCI combination (SCI — Service Corporation International, the funeral and cemetery consolidator) → the Federal Trade Commission's Docket C-4423 divestiture (2014), which ordered the park sold to StoneMor Indiana LLC in one package with Highland Cemetery and Riverview Cemetery & Crematory → StoneMor → Everstory Partners today, the Indiana Cemetery Association's 2026–27 listing concurring. A merger remedy in Washington is, for this ground, the deed record's most public page.
Its standing, from this build's experience: the docket proves the succession from 2014 forward at federal-record strength — parties, package, buyer, date — and the build uses it for exactly that, printing the park's three telephone numbers alongside as the record gives them (dated, unmerged), because an operator's identity is a dated fact, not a permanent one.
Where it fails: before 2014 the federal file is silent, and the park's founding year, founder and acreage stand as a named gap whose settlers are local — the county deed and parcel record for 375 West Cleveland Road, the Tribune archive, the operator's corporate record. A consent order can prove a divestiture; it cannot prove a beginning.
Sources:
- Federal Trade Commission, Docket C-4423 (2014); Indiana Cemetery Association listing, 2026–27.