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SCI

-Companies:*SCi, formerly Sales Curve Interactive, a video game developer*Sanmina-SCI, an Electronics Manufacturing Services company*Sequential Circuits Inc, a synthesizer company*Service Corporation International, a large company in the funeral industry....

Service Corporation International is North America’s

North America

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 largest provider of end-of-life arrangements and services. With its headquarters in Neartown, Houston, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, United States

United States

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, SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries in 43 states, eight Canadian provinces, and Puerto Rico.
Robert L. Waltrip, a licensed funeral director who grew up in his family’s funeral business, founded the company in 1962.