ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- Just put me in a pine box. It's been said by many and sung by some, too. Roger Rosengren took that phrase to heart eight years ago when a fellow carpenter handed him a drawing and ...

Karen and Patrick Kilby make caskets at their woodworking shop in Ottertail, Minn. The family-run business, A Simple Pine Box, makes individually handcrafted caskets. Karen Kilby displays the cherry ...

Camp County, Texas (KLTV) -It’s no mystery that traditional funerals are expensive. One East Texas woman decided to help cut the cost of burial. By honoring her husband’s request to be buried in a ...

A former priest is building pine caskets and urns in a century-old church in Minnesota with a goal of making funerals more affordable. KARE-TV reports that Mark Coen’s company, Simple Pine Box, sells ...

MOSCOW (AFP) ― Under the Soviets, they were plain wooden boxes upholstered in red satin. Today they come in different shapes and sizes and cater to a variety of tastes. Many are made of pine or ...