Cemetery

Decision overturned. . .golf course to become cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / November 27, 2019 /

The Ontario Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) met in October and reversed a decision made more than a year ago about a closed golf course in Lakeshore, Ontario.  According to this article from the CBC, the Roman Catholic Diocese of London (Ontario) appealed an earlier decision that will allow it to turn the 143 acre…

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Alabama cemetery board member charged with theft

By Funeral Director Daily / November 21, 2019 /

This news video and article from WAFF-TV brings to light the charges against a member of the Legg Cemetery in Limestone County, Alabama.  According to the article, the board member has been charged with first-degree theft after investigators reportedly found $60,000 of the cemetery’s money in her possession. It also appears that after a county…

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Whose casket is it?

By Funeral Director Daily / November 14, 2019 /

The other day we came across this unusual article in the Voldosta Today News.  The story revolves around the private mausoleum of the E.D. Rivers, Jr. family. E.D. (Eurith Dickinson) Rivers, Jr. was the 68th Governor of Georgia and served from 1937 to 1941.  According to the above referenced article, he and his wife Mattie…

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From the Veterans Day file

By Funeral Director Daily / November 12, 2019 /

Yesterday was Veteran’s Day across the United States and we noticed a couple of funeral related items that we thought we would pass on to our readers. First of all, we noticed how Service Corporation International’ s Dignity Memorial location in Western Michigan received some really good attention on a television talk show about pre-planning…

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The dead rising?

By Funeral Director Daily / November 5, 2019 /

Regardless what your personal views are on climate change, we found this article from the E & E News that explains that there have been a lot more cemeteries that have seen problems from rising water and what E & E determines is climate change in the last couple of years. The article starts off…

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Just in time for Halloween

By Funeral Director Daily / October 31, 2019 /

Leave it to a couple of iconic names in the business news world to connect the death care profession with Halloween.  Although you should probably expect it, we came across a couple of articles today that link our livelihoods with the October 31 holiday. First, from Forbes.  In this article you can read about “13…

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Vancouver cemetery considers three dimensional plots

By Funeral Director Daily / October 29, 2019 /

Sustainability and the ability to make more out of less has led the Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver, British Columbia, to explore options that would allow more graves in the cemetery.  The cemetery has operated in the city since 1887 and was shut down to new grave lot purchases during the time period of 1986…

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Dillinger exhumation. . .the next chapter

By Funeral Director Daily / October 28, 2019 /

In the continuing saga of the possible exhumation of famed bank robber John Dillinger, a relative of Dillinger’s has been given the okay for an exhumation to occur on December 31.  This comes after a legal fight in which the original exhumation date in September came and went without incident.  You can see the latest…

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Cemetery life: Halloween movie cancelled, lawsuit

By Funeral Director Daily / October 24, 2019 /

Today we decided that we would be light on the editorial topic and just present a couple of short news articles to our readers concerning issues in cemeteries across the country. The first article that we will furnish to our readers is here and concerns the Lafayette Memorial Park in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where a…

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Trouble. . . or maybe. . .compromise in Paradise

By Funeral Director Daily / October 22, 2019 /

The Hawaiian Memorial Park opened in 1958, one year prior to Hawaii joining the country as the 50th State.  The cemetery located out in Kaneohe on the eastern, or windward side of the island, was probably way out in the country and zoning issues were far from people’s minds.  More land was bought in 1982…

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