Albert Stewart begins his real estate business, through which he acquires three cemeteries (St. Vincent de Paul) and a marble shop in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Company's service to families begins.
		Acme Realty Company, later doing business as Acme Marble & Granite Co., Inc., is the company through which the Stewart family begins to establish its reputation in the monument and memorial construction industry.
		By 1920, St. Vincent de Paul Cemeteries and the marble shop had been restored and were serving the needs of the New Orleans community.
		Charles and Frank Stewart, Sr., sons of Albert Stewart, enter the family business. The monument and memorial construction business begins expanding in New Orleans, primarily in Metairie Cemetery, and throughout southeast Louisiana.
		The development of small family mausolea, vaults and crypts in company-owned cemeteries and others' cemeteries continues. The business begins selling prearrangements.
		The Stewarts establish Lake Lawn Park Cemetery in New Orleans and develop a large perpetual care, community mausoleum, in which there are now more than 31,000 crypts.
		The selling of prearrangements quickly spread from property in Lake Lawn Park to preneed selling for community mausolea to be constructed in others' cemeteries by Acme.
		In July, Frank B. Stewart, Jr. begins working with his father, grandfather and uncle at the Stewart family business.
		Expansion continues, primarily in mausoleum development through Acme Marble & Granite Co., Inc. and Acme Mausoleum Corporation.
		The Stewart family acquires the historic Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.
		After the deaths in the mid-sixties of Frank B. Stewart, Jr.'s grandfather, father and uncle, the family consolidates its holdings and incorporates as Stewart Enterprises, Inc.
		In June, the official dedication of the new Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home in Metairie Cemetery marks the opening of the first combination operation in Louisiana and in the Company.
		In December, the Company makes its first acquisition outside of Louisiana: Restland Memorial Park and Funeral Home, the largest death care provider in Texas, plus Laurel Land Funeral Home and Cemetery and Singing Hills Funeral Home in Dallas, Texas.
		Operations expand to Florida, Maryland and West Virginia. By this time, the Company had completed over 600 mausoleum projects for outside clients, predominantly Catholic dioceses throughout the United States.
		All Saints Mausoleum opens in Metairie Cemetery, a joint venture between Stewart and the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
		During this decade, Stewart expands operations to 30 states and 12 countries.
		The Company holds its initial public offering in October and begins trading on the Nasdaq National Market System with the ticker symbol STEI.
		The Company makes its first acquisition outside the continental U.S. in Puerto Rico with the purchase of Los Cipreses Memorial Park. Also, the Company opens its first funeral home on the grounds of a non-profit cemetery, All Faiths Funeral Home in Greenwood Cemetery.
		Stewart expands to Mexico and to Australia.
		Stewart expands to New Zealand, and to Canada with the largest acquisition to date: 77 funeral homes and five cemeteries in Montreal and Québec. Also, the Company's Shared Services Center is established in New Orleans.
		Sentinel Cremation Societies, Inc., the largest cremation society in the United States and the leading alternative-services firm in California, is acquired.
		Stewart enters Europe with an acquisition in Spain.
		The Archdiocese of Los Angeles selects Stewart Enterprises, Inc. to construct and operate funeral homes on six of their largest cemeteries.
		The Company expands to Portugal in September and to the Netherlands in December.
		The Company enters South America with an acquisition in Argentina.
		Growth in Europe continues with expansion to France and to Belgium.
		In August, plans are announced to build and operate three additional funeral homes in cemeteries owned by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in California.
		Also in August, an agreement is signed with the Wyuka Cemetery Board of Trustees to build and operate a funeral home in Wyuka Cemetery, a state-chartered cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska.
		Over 200,000 families around the world were served by more than 11,200 dedicated employees during this year.
		Stewart Enterprises, Inc. begins its 90th year of serving families.