Shekinah Anderson, former reality TV star, is marking three years as a funeral home owner.

Better known to fans as Shekinah Jo, the former Love & Hip Hop cast member opened Revival Funeral Home in September 2023. The company’s website says its mission is to offer funeral services that reflect the lives of the people in its care.

Celebrating three years in business

In a recent Instagram post, Anderson celebrated the company’s third anniversary.

“Hi brothers and sisters in Christ, it’s me, Shekinah Jo, from Revival Funeral Home. I just wanna tell all you guys who entrusted us with your loved ones,” she said in the clip. “This makes three years. Three years that we’ve been in business, and all the glory goes to God. And I just wanna thank you guys for supporting me. Supporting my vision and supporting my business. Three years. I have came in the game. I have changed things. I have made funeral homes step up they game. I am overly grateful about it. Amen. I feel like a trendsetter. Amen. Three years trendsetting in the funeral industry.”

Anderson said she has raised the bar for funeral homes.

She added, “To the ones who I’ve inspired to step your funeral business up, thank you to you all too because I see each and every last one of you, and I’m happy to have given you vision. Amen. God used me to give you vision to have these people’s amazing home goings.”

The company says Revival Funeral Home is the first funeral home to do it all, and Anderson described the business as an “all-in-one funeral service.”

“From the moment a family places their trust in us, we handle it,” the caption read. “The details. The coordination. The presentation. The service. Everything.”

The funeral home industry by the numbers

The National Funeral Directors Association counts roughly 20,000 funeral homes in the U.S. Its 2023 data puts the median cost of a funeral with viewing and burial at $8,300 and a funeral with cremation at $6,280, CNBC reported.

Anderson is not the only well-known figure in the industry. Baseball Hall of Famer Andre Dawson is a licensed mortician and co-owns Paradise Memorial Funeral Home with his wife in Richmond Heights, Florida.

R&B singer Monica is also a licensed mortician who occasionally helps out at Uncle Gus Thornhill’s funeral home in East Point, Georgia.