What Tribute Memorial Care does

Tribute Memorial Care is a privately-held, family-operated funeral home and memorial services provider based in Norman, Oklahoma, serving families across Norman and surrounding Oklahoma communities. Its core offerings include traditional burial services, cremation services conducted through its own in-house crematory, personalized "Tailored Farewells," and a dedicated Veterans Services vertical that handles VA burial benefits, military honors, and headstone coordination. The company is staffed by three partners (Chad Vice, John Davenport, Dirk O'Hara), licensed funeral directors, care specialists, and an office manager, and operates from a single facility at 4300 W Indian Hills Rd.

The business is built on a technology stack provided primarily by Tukios, Inc. — a funeral home platform operator that runs the website, online obituary management, tribute video production, and holds the TUKIOS trademark. Tribute Memorial Care extends this stack through partnerships with Cumulus for digital memorialization (3D memory clouds, VR visualization, location-mapped memorials) and Passare for online pre-planning form submission. Additional digital touchpoints include live streaming for remote attendees, online memorial pages with condolence and candle-lighting features, flower ordering routed through local florist partners, and obituary notification email subscriptions. These add-ons function both as service enhancements for families and as ancillary transaction-fee or commission-based revenue streams.

Revenue is generated primarily through one-time service fees for at-need funeral, cremation, and burial arrangements, supplemented by merchandise sales (caskets, urns), commission-based flower orders, pre-planning arrangements, and Veterans Services coordination. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. The customer base is entirely consumer (B2C), segmented geographically, with each engagement being a single, non-recurring transaction tied to a death event in the local market. Distribution is direct-to-consumer through in-person arrangement conferences at the funeral home, 24/7 phone support, and self-serve website tools — with no resellers, third-party channels, or geographic expansion outside the Norman, Oklahoma catchment area.

Name

Tribute Memorial Care

Legal name

Tukios, Inc.

Website

https://tribute.care

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Tribute Memorial Care is a privately-held funeral home in Norman, Oklahoma offering traditional burial, cremation with its own crematory, veterans services, pre-planning, and digital memorialization to families in Norman and surrounding Oklahoma communities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Norman

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Burial Services: Traditional funeral and burial services including visitation, funeral service, and burial. Revenue generated through service fees, casket/merchandise sales, and cemetery coordination.
2. Cremation Services: Cremation services including traditional funeral followed by cremation, memorial services, and committal services. Own crematory generates operational revenue.
3. Pre-planning/Pre-need Services: Advance funeral planning services allowing individuals to arrange and potentially fund their funeral in advance.
4. Flower Ordering: Commission-based flower ordering through local florist partnerships for funeral services and memorials.
5. Veterans Services: Assistance with VA burial benefits, headstones, burial flags, and Presidential Memorial Certificates.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Tribute Memorial Care operates a funeral home in Norman, Oklahoma offering traditional burial services, cremation services through its own on-site crematory, personalized tailored farewells, veteran services, and pre-planning/advance arrangements. Supporting offerings include online memorials, tribute videos, live streaming of services, and digital memorialization through the Cumulus platform, along with flower ordering via partnered local florists and grief support resources.

Product overview

Tribute Memorial Care operates as a funeral and memorial service provider offering a comprehensive suite of death care services. The core product portfolio consists of burial services (traditional funeral services with visitation options) and cremation services (with owned crematory). Supporting these core offerings are personalization modules including Tailored Farewells (tribute videos, photo displays, music, readings), Veterans Services (VA benefits assistance, military honors), Online Memorials (obituary websites with photo sharing and candle lighting), and Digital Memorialization through a Cumulus partnership (3D memory clouds with VR capability). Additional services include immediate need forms for at-need families, pre-planning for advance arrangements, obituary notification subscriptions, and grief support resources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Burial Services Traditional burial services including visitation, funeral services, and personalization options such as tribute videos, photos, and mementos for families in the Norman, Oklahoma area.
• Cremation Services Cremation services including traditional funeral service followed by cremation, memorial services, and graveside/committal services, performed at the company's own on-site crematory.
• Tailored Farewells Personalized funeral service options including photos and albums, tribute videos, music and artwork, and readings of poetry and literature to honor a unique life.
• Veterans Services Specialized funeral services for veterans including assistance with VA benefits, burial benefits, military funeral honors, headstones, burial flags, and Presidential Memorial Certificates.
• Pre-Planning Services Advance funeral planning services that help individuals document wishes, reduce family burden, and provide peace of mind through flexible funding options, available via online forms through Passare or in-person consultation.
• Digital Memorialization (Cumulus) Digital platform for preserving memories, grieving loved ones, and celebrating life through memory clouds with 3D visualization, VR capability, and location mapping, offered as a complement to physical arrangements.
• Online Memorial Customized online memorial page featuring the obituary, photographs, space for condolences, shared memories, photo uploads, and candle lighting, shareable through social media.
• Tribute Video Personalized video celebrating memories, created from photographs provided by the family and set to music, available as DVD, USB, or digital files.
• Send Flowers Convenient flower ordering service through partnered local florists, available directly from the obituary page.
• Service Live Streaming Live streaming capability for funeral services enabling family and friends unable to attend in person to participate remotely.
• Grief Support Resources Support resources including grief education, guidance for children and grief, and access to external grief support communities and forums.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Cumulus (cumulus.world)coreTechnology or IntegrationCumulus is a digital memorialization platform partner providing memory cloud technology for preserving memories, grieving loved ones, and celebrating lives. Tribute Memorial Care offers this as a digital complement to physical arrangements, allowing families to upload photos, videos, audio files, and create mapped memorial locations.
• Local FloristsminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership with local florists to provide fresh flower arrangements for funeral services and delivery to funeral home or family's residence.
• PassarecoreTechnology or IntegrationPassare is an online pre-planning platform integrated into Tribute Memorial Care's website for secure funeral pre-arrangement form submission.
• Tukios, Inc.coreOthersParent company operating the website and associated services for Tribute Memorial Care. Tukios owns the technology platform, trademark, and provides operational infrastructure.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• NorthStar Memorial Group: Private equity-backed owner and operator of funeral homes and cemeteries. Directly comparable business model — local-branded, full-service death care — and represents the consolidator archetype Tribute could partner with, be acquired by, or compete against.
• Carriage Services: Publicly traded provider of funeral and cemetery services with a focus on personalized, high-touch service — philosophically aligned with Tribute's local, family-owned positioning but operating at multi-location scale.
• StoneMor Partners: Publicly traded death care company operating cemeteries and funeral homes. Comparable in offering breadth (burial, cremation, pre-need, memorialization) but at national scale and with stronger cemetery exposure.
• Foundation Partners Group: Private equity-backed consolidator of funeral homes and cemeteries across the U.S. Operates the same burial/cremation/pre-need service model as Tribute but at portfolio scale, making it a likely acquirer or competitor in Tribute's geography.
• Service Corporation International: Largest publicly traded funeral, cremation, and cemetery operator in North America (Dignity Memorial brand). Directly comparable in service mix (burial, cremation, pre-need) but operates at national scale and competes with Tribute at the local level in Oklahoma.

Others

• Passare: Pre-planning and arrangement platform integrated into Tribute's website. A direct technology partner and a comparable SaaS enabler to other funeral homes — relevant as an ecosystem participant rather than a competitor.
• Frazer Consultants: Marketing, website, and technology provider to funeral homes, including tribute video and personalization tools. Directly comparable to Tukios in role and is a key alternative-platform peer in the funeral tech ecosystem.
• Homesteaders Life Company: Pre-need funeral funding and insurance provider to independent funeral homes. Comparable through Tribute's pre-planning revenue stream — Homesteaders is the financial back-end peer that enables the same pre-need model Tribute sells.
• Cumulus: Digital memorialization platform that powers Tribute's 3D memory clouds, VR, and location-mapped memorials. An enabling technology peer offering a category-defining feature that differentiates Tribute from typical local funeral homes.
• Tukios: Tukios, Inc. is the parent company and platform provider that operates Tribute Memorial Care's website and technology infrastructure. It is an enabler rather than a competitor but materially shapes Tribute's product capabilities and economics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles19 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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