Allnutt Funerals

Service Corporation International, a Houston-based publicly traded company, added Allnutt's 13 locations to its Dignity Memorial network. SCI owns more than 2,000 funeral homes and cemeteries in North America, including 23 in Colorado, according to the company's website.Allnutt, a 131-year-old family-owned funeral service company, has owned Hunter Chapel, 2100 N. Lincoln Ave. in Loveland, since 1985, according to Rick Allnutt, president of the business.Rick Allnutt said he, his wife, Susan, and his father, Bill, owned the company before the sale and will continue working for SCI."Everybody's retained their positions, and they'll continue working for the new company and, as they said, keep doing things the way we've always done them," he said.Allnutt Funeral Service, which started in Greeley and had funeral homes from the Nebraska Panhandle to Colorado's Western Slope, employed about 180 people, 60 of them full-time, he said.Adam Findley had been Allnutt Funeral Service's operations manager, working from the Loveland location, and will continue in that role with Service Corporation International, Allnutt said.The change in ownership came about as a result of the Allnutt family's discussions about who would take over the business in the coming years, Allnutt said.AdvertisementHis children had taken different career paths, so he knew he would have turn the business over to someone else, he said."For us, it was the right decision at the right time with the right people for the right reasons," Allnutt said. "It feels good to me."It's hard giving your family business over to somebody else, so you work real hard to find the right match," he said. "I'm very pleased with the decision we made."The corporate acquisition leaves two family-owned funeral homes in Loveland — Kibbey-Fishburn Funeral Home and Viegut Funeral Home.The Kibbeys and Fishburns no longer have ownership in the funeral home at 1102 N. Lincoln Ave. that's named after them, but Dave Viegut owns the business at 1616... (Loveland Reporter-Herald)

The 132-year-old Allnutt Funeral Services is now a part of the Dignity Memorial network of funeral homes and cemeteries, operated by Houston-based Service Corporation International."We're excited for a new opportunity," Allnutt President Rick Allnutt said. "It's a great match between two companies with similar visions and missions."Although the business is changing hands, the family owners have no intention of moving on. Rick and his wife, Susan, along with family patriarch Bill Allnutt, will continue to be a part of the funeral home service, which has origins dating back to 1886 in Greeley. “To me, it’s not as much important on who owns the business, it’s who is working there. We anticipate all of our staff will remain solid and continue to offer the same service for five generations in 132 years.— Rick Allnutt, Allnutt Funeral Service president"We're not leaving, we're not moving. We'll be right here doing what we've always done," said Rick, who joined his father, Bill, in the company in 1985 to become the fifth generation to run the business. "This does allow me to do what I really love to do, and that is spend time with families in our communities and also spend time in the community." Recommended Stories For YouThe decision comes after much consideration and one "inevitable" the family can't ignore. Unlike the four generations before him, Rick said, there's no one left in the family to whom he can pass the torch. "When my family and I began to look at our succession plan, which every family does, there was not anyone from the next generation that was going to follow this path," he said. "My sons and my wife's kids all are pursuing other interests outside of the industry, which I'm very proud of. "When we looked at that, it became a question not of if but when. We began to investigate what it might look like. It became very clear now was the best time."Bill still lives in Greeley and goes to the Macy Chapel, 702 13th St., every day to work with families — when he's not ... (My Windsor Now)