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Ohio funeral home to be first in state to serve alcohol during services: ‘Party planner for the dead’

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December 17, 2024

Ohio funeral home to be first in state to serve alcohol during services: ‘Party planner for the dead’

If you can’t raise the dead, might as well raise a glass to them!

An Ohio funeral-home owner says he wants to be “a party planner for the dead” — by opening the state’s first bereavement center with booze.

Evergreen Funeral Cremation and Reception in Columbus hopes to soon have a liquor license to allow his patrons to mix mourning with merriment.

“My role in this position is to kind of be a party planner for the dead,” Hunter Triplett, the owner of Evergreen Funeral Cremation and Reception in Columbus, told WSYX.

“Be more of a celebration of life than more of the multi-day traditional services.”

As his family was applying for the liquor license, Triplett said inspectors told them Evergreen would be the first funeral home in the state allowed to serve alcohol.

“We will only be serving alcohol when people are on this premises and remain on the premises until the continuation of the services just for the safety of the people in the community around,” said Triplett, whose family bought the property in 2015.

A funeral home bar would not only allow mourners to send off their loved ones in a spirit of festivity, Triplett thinks, but would help them save possibly thousands by rolling the whole funeral experience — wake, service, burial, reception — into one package.

Located in an old chocolate factory building since 2015, Evergreen has sprawling facilities and is located directly across the street from a cemetery.

“It’s kind of like a one-stop shop for funeral service. The package being around $5,000-$6,000, contrary to the national average, which can be upwards of $10,000.”

If approved for a D3 license, Evergreen would be permitted to sell beer, wine and hard liquor for consumption on-site.

Though some states ban the service of food or drinks at funeral homes — including New Jersey, North Dakota, Massachusetts, and Connecticut — alcohol at funeral homes has been on the rise in recent years.

“People used the phrase over and over again that the funeral homes were like a ‘dark lifeless tomb’ with a certain smell to them and certain look to them,” said Scott Mueller of Mueller Memorial in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.

“People said, ‘When we go, we want to have a party atmosphere. More of a celebration.’ So we decided to put a bar in,” he told NBC News in 2017. “People used to say, ‘I can’t believe you used to keep the hearses in here,’ or say, ‘I think I can smell something.”

And at Monahan Funeral Home in Providence, Rhode Island, the owners’ converted their old attached garage into a fully functioning pub — which mourners often pour into once they finish the funeral service.

New York state revised its laws in 2016 to allow food and beverages to be served at funeral homes.

Evergreen hopes to have its license and begin serving in early 2025.

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Ohio State’s Chip Kelly takes shot at Oregon: ‘You can’t stop us with 11′

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January 18, 2025

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Ohio State’s Chip Kelly takes shot at Oregon: ‘You can’t stop us with 11′

Former Oregon Ducks coach Chip Kelly took a shot at his former football program on Saturday.

Ahead of Monday’s national championship game against Notre Dame, the current Ohio State offensive coordinator was asked about what motivated the Buckeyes entering their Rose Bowl matchup with Oregon — a 41-21 blowout win.

Kelly pointed to the 12 men on the field penalty taken intentionally by Dan Lanning and company during the two teams’ regular season matchup, which Oregon won, 32-31.

“I’ll tell you what, it was a unique message with our players: you can’t stop us with 11. You had to stop us with 12,” Kelly told reporters. “You saw the final results of 11 versus 11. So, that was a message to our team for the week leading up to the Rose Bowl that I think resonated really well with our guys.”

Ohio State led 34-0 at one point in the first half against the Ducks, and superstar freshman wideout Jeremiah Smith was a major reason why. He finished with seven catches for 187 yards and two touchdowns vs. Oregon.

It was Kelly’s first win over the Ducks as an opposing coach: he was previously 0-5 against Oregon between his time as head coach at UCLA and offensive coordinator at Ohio State.

The Buckeyes went on to beat Texas, 28-14, at the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Cotton Bowl. They are 8.5-point favorites over the Fighting Irish in the national championship game.

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What you need to know for Notre Dame vs. Ohio State in the College Football Playoff national championship

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January 18, 2025

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Luke Goode’s 3-pointer in OT lifts Indiana past Ohio State 77-76

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January 18, 2025

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Luke Goode’s 3-pointer in OT lifts Indiana past Ohio State 77-76

Luke Goode stroked a 3-pointer with more than a minute left in overtime to give Indiana the lead and Anthony Leal blocked John Mobley Jr.’s jumper with a second left to allow Indiana to escape Ohio State with a 77-76 Big Ten Conference win Friday night.

Indiana (14-5, 5-3) now has won five of the last six meetings with the Buckeyes, including both games a year ago. Ohio State (10-8, 2-5) lost its third straight conference game, all by two points or less.

Mobley hit a 3-pointer with 38 seconds remaining in regulation to tie the game at 71-71. Indiana held the ball before Luke Goode drove for a layup that missed, Oumar Ballo got the offensive rebound but missed the put-back, rebounded again and missed a jumper. Ohio State rebounded but was unable to get off a shot as the clock ran out.

Ohio State took the lead, 76-74, on Bruce Thornton’s three-point play with 1:26 left in overtime. Indiana’s Myles Rice drove to the basket but missed a layup to tie the game, but Oumar Ballo came down with the offensive rebound and kicked the ball to a wide-open Goode on the wing for the game-winner. Mobley missed a 3-point attempt for Ohio State and Kanaan Carlyle drove the baseline and misfired on a short jumper with :14 left.

Goode finished with a career-high 23 points and Ballo scored a double-double with 21 points and 15 rebounds with four assists and two blocks for the Hoosiers. Carlyle added 13 points.

Mobley finished with 22 points to lead the Buckeyes. Micah Parrish added 19 and Thornton added 18.

Indiana plays at Northwestern Wednesday. Ohio State plays at No. 17 Purdue Thursday.

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