Heritage Funeral Home and Crematory

Doris enjoyed volunteering her time at Parkridge Medical Center for many years.  She enjoyed traveling, spending time with her family, cooking, and having pool parties.  She was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years J.C. Sissom.Survivors are her son, Jimmy Sissom, Fort Oglethorpe, granddaughter, Ashley (Joel) Rodriguez, Chattanooga, and several nieces and nephews.Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 30,in the funeral home chapel with Pastor Brian Smith officiating.  Interment will be in Lakewood Memory Gardens, South.Visit www.heritagebattlefield.com to share condolences and view the memorial tribute. The family will receive friends from 4-8 p.m. on Tuesday, at Heritage Funeral Home & Crematory, Battlefield Parkway. (The Chattanoogan)

D. (KSFY) - A quick Google search for "cremation services Sioux Falls" puts Heritage Cremation Provider at the top of your search results. Local funeral homes are warning people to do your research before just calling the first name that pops up. Heritage Cremation Provider claims to be a "local" and "trusted" cremation service in your area -- where ever that is -- since it isn't listed on the site. A quick call to a 1-800 number, which many funeral homes regularly use, and you're on the phone with someone who says they can help you with your cremation service for your loved one for a price that might seem like a great deal -- but local funeral homes say it's just the opposite.In fact, Heritage Cremation Provider has been touting itself as Heritage Funeral Home in Sioux Falls, and one funeral director tells KSFY News that they also claimed to be affiliated with George Boom Funeral Home.The service acts as a broker between a person looking for cremation service and the funeral home, but tells its customers they will handle everything from start to finish.Heritage Funeral Home in Sioux Falls said they've had ongoing issues with the company for more than a year now -- but most recently -- in the last 24 hours."A local hospice had called us about five o'clock in the morning wanting to know why we hadn't come up and picked up someone who'd passed away," said Matt Pepper, a funeral director at Heritage Funeral Home. "And the deal was-- they'd never called us -- they'd called Heritage Cremation Society. [sic]"Multiple funeral homes in the Sioux Falls area said this has been an issue for them also and is an issue because the service is identifying itself as Heritage Funeral Home. What Heritage Cremation Provider does, is take all of your information, then brokers that out by calling actual funeral homes and setting up the cremation service. They cannot provide death certificates and don't transport the decedents' remains -- before or after they've been cremated.But as funeral homes in the area caught on, they said they've been avoiding working with Heritage Cr... (KSFY)