Who We Are

Our story begins in 1970 when my wife, Debi and I first met. We set out on different paths and mine took me to the funeral industry and the mortuary owned by my father-in-law, Wallace Featheringill. My son, Kori, still works at Featheringill Mortuary in San Diego. Stop in and say hi, they are all very nice folks.
  In 2001 I left the funeral business behind to reunite with Debi after 30 years, in Portland, Oregon where we still live. Life in the Northwest is glorious and the beauty of nature is on full display. This, however, does not stop us from wanting to travel and experience more of this great planet.
  So in 2007, when our friend Rob asked us to go to Costa Rica with him we couldn't refuse.
Off we went to explore the jungles and mountains of Central America. We found a country full of wonderful, welcoming people and scenery that took your breath away. The water was warm and the beaches uncrowded. What more could someone from Oregon in the winter wish for?
 We had a great time and came home with a few souvenirs of our trip and many happy memories.
  One day I was admiring the absolute beauty of a jewelry box that I had purchased when the idea hit me. This wood, I thought would make a fantastic cremation urn since we don't see this type of wood being used in the USA for urns. We have plenty of oak, maple, cherry, walnut and what they call "rosewood" but nothing like this. And this wood, strangely enough, is a rosewood. It's called Cocobolo in Costa Rica and as you will see it is fantastic.
  In order to get urns made from tropical woods I would have to go back to Costa Rica and find someone to make them. So off I went, on a trip of three weeks traveling by bus around a country where I knew not a sole and spoke the language only marginally. As I mentioned earlier, these are extremely welcoming and friendly people and within a couple of weeks we had the beginnings of a small urn producing company. Of course everything is from scratch since cremation in Costa Rica is pretty much non-existent and all artists and craftsmen like to "improve" on any ideas that you may have.
  We now work with two families of craftsmen in Costa Rica and consider them a part of our family as well. We are all working to improve our products and to come up with new ideas and designs. Many of which will be available soon.
 We actively started to market our products in November, 2008 and are proud to be associated with over thirty Family Owned and Operated Funeral Homes throughout the west coast. Our goal is to have our urns available to you in all areas of the United States through your local Family Owned Funeral Home.
  Please feel free to send us a note with any questions, concerns or ideas or even if you need assistance planning a trip to Costa Rica.
                                    Thanks for visiting our site,
                                                           Steve and Debi Truesdale