Income Statement - USD ($)	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2017	Mar. 31, 2016
Revenues:
Insurance premiums and other considerations	$ 17,357,124	$ 14,451,575
Net investment income	9,563,282	8,992,191
Net mortuary and cemetery sales	3,358,973	3,245,856
Realized gains on investments and other assets	145,330	97,922
Other than temporary impairments on investments	(52,139)	(73,630)
Mortgage fee income	38,427,854	41,212,008
Other income	2,028,873	1,530,426
Total revenues	70,829,297	69,456,348
Benefits and expenses:
Death benefits	8,794,598	7,824,001
Surrenders and other policy benefits	857,531	518,321
Increase in future policy benefits	5,568,042	4,121,701
Amortization of deferred policy and pre-need acquisition costs and value of business acquired	2,264,039	2,212,836
Selling, general and administrative expenses:
Commissions	16,355,048	19,210,968
Personnel	18,589,687	17,197,372
Advertising	1,310,674	1,078,010
Rent and rent related	2,139,538	2,064,325
Depreciation on property and equipment	625,812	521,455
Costs related to funding mortgage loans	2,219,649	2,632,754
Other expenses	7,430,951	6,480,711
Interest expense	1,254,039	1,064,195
Cost of goods and services sold-mortuaries and cemeteries	521,919	458,619
Total benefits and expenses	67,931,527	65,385,268
Earnings before income taxes	2,897,770	4,071,080
Income tax expense	(1,037,770)	(1,533,139)
Net earnings	$ 1,860,000	$ 2,537,941
Net earnings per Class A Equivalent common share (1)	$ 0.12	$ 0.17
Net earnings per Class A Equivalent common share-assuming dilution (1)	$ 0.12	$ 0.17
Weighted-average Class A equivalent common share outstanding (1)	15,058,153	14,656,450
Weighted-average Class A equivalent common shares outstanding-assuming dilution (1)	15,527,996	15,112,278