The same Indiana board meeting that revoked Gary G. Greiner's licenses also closed the door on his building's next operator. The State Board of Funeral and Cemetery Service voted 4-0 at its Aug. 6 meeting in Indianapolis to deny Edmondson Family Funeral Home Inc. a branch license (Application No. 4424042) for the former Greiner Funeral Home at 2005 N. 13th St. in Terre Haute, per the board's official minutes. A branch license is the permit an Indiana funeral establishment needs to operate a second location.
Greiner now faces 37 criminal charges filed Aug. 20, a case Obitley covered on Aug. 22 in "greiner-funeral-home-37-charges."
The minutes reconstruct the denial as a running examination by board member Thomas Sproles. Asked what ties the new business would have, owner Jeff Edmondson answered: "We will have no ties or relations with Mr. Greiner or his representatives." Sproles asked next whether the building was being leased, and from whom. Edmondson's answers, recorded in the minutes, were yes and Mr. Greiner.
The lease itself ran one year at $3,500 per month. Either party could terminate after three months. It was triple net, meaning the tenant pays the building's taxes, insurance, utilities, and similar carrying costs on top of rent. Section E carried one more term: Edmondson and Greiner would "equally split 50% each the net profits on a monthly basis." Confronted with that section, Edmondson acknowledged it: paying Greiner 50 percent of any net income was part of the agreement, as the Tribune-Star reported.
Sproles moved to deny "based on the evidence Mr. Edmondson provided in the form of the lease agreement with Mr. Greiner and Mr. Edmondson's testimony," in the minutes' wording. "He still owns the funeral home, still is pulling the strings on the funeral home," Sproles said. "I do not need anything else." The recorded vote was 4-0, with Frank Downing, Christopher Cooke, Thomas Sproles, and Pamela Gardner in favor.
The revocation case ran on Cause No. 202603-FCB-0012. The board issued a default order, its term for discipline entered when a respondent does not contest the case. Greiner did not contest it. The votes, each 4-0, revoked his funeral director license (FD09100013) and the funeral home's license (FH10900011). Restitution was ordered under IC 25-1-11-12, with interest under IC 30-2-13-29(d), for the 142 consumers whose payments were "not properly trusted." Collection authority went to the Office of the Indiana Attorney General.
The complaint behind that order came from the Attorney General's Office: 18 administrative counts alleging more than $550,000 in defrauded preneed funds. Preneed arrangements are funerals paid for in advance. WTHI-TV reported the complaint alleges Greiner pocketed payments that should have been deposited into insurance accounts, and characterized the client count as at least 147.
The minutes also fix a long association between the two men. Edmondson testified he had known Greiner about 35 years and worked with him at a former funeral home for about 12. His wife worked as a secretary at Greiner Funeral Home from 2011 to 2014. Edmondson and his wife Michelle own Fitzpatrick Funeral Home in West Terre Haute, and a letter from Greiner's attorney, Mike Ellis, had steered Greiner's preneed contract holders to that firm. The board noted the letter was supposed to come from Greiner Funeral Home. Edmondson testified he called Ellis and told him not to bring the files after the Indiana Funeral Directors Association said accepting them would be against the law.
The default order carried one more name. The board directed a consumer complaint against Greiner Funeral Home employee Jenifer Gummere (FD20600003) for her involvement, and ordered an inspection of the funeral home where she now works. Sproles raised possible Medicaid fraud for review by FSSA, Indiana's Family and Social Services Administration.
Connecting Directors, a trade publication, quoted Vice Chairman Frank Downing: "He has given us all a black eye," and has "hurt every funeral director's reputation in the state of Indiana and in the U.S. by doing this stealing from little old ladies who trusted him." The remarks appear only in that outlet's reporting.
The building itself now appears on a county list. Per the Tribune-Star via Yahoo News, 2005 N. 13th St. is listed for possible inclusion in the Sept. 30 online Vigo County Real Property Tax Sale, with taxes due of $14,586.42.
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What This Means for You
Successor applications live or die on the lease. Section E left a revoked owner entitled to half the net profits from a building the board had just stripped of its license, and the recorded basis for denial was the lease agreement and Edmondson's testimony. Indiana's next test is arithmetic: an up-to-$550,000 restitution order covering 142 consumers, set against a Sept. 30 tax sale where the property is listed for possible inclusion with $14,586.42 in taxes due.
*Sources: Indiana Funeral and Cemetery Board (State Board of Funeral and Cemetery Service) official meeting minutes, Aug 6 2026, in.gov/pla (marked DRAFT); Tribune-Star via Yahoo News, Aug 2026; WTHI-TV, Aug 13 2026; Connecting Directors (Tony Russo, On Deathcare), Aug 18 2026.*
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