 HOUSTON, April 05, 2021 GLOBE NEWSWIRE -- Mel Payne, Chairman and CEO of Carriage Services, Inc. NYSE: CSV, issued the following statement, Today after the market closed, we released my Shareholder Letter, along with filing a related Current Report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as my Shareholder Letter contains our Year to Date February 2021 Comparative Performance Highlights shown below, as well as highly transparent individual performance data on the four large acquisitions we made during the last quarter of 2019early 2020. The Cover Theme for my 50 page Shareholder Letter is, A Tale of High Performance Transformation. 