funeral service

Ohio funeral home to close after 120 years

By Funeral Director Daily / July 26, 2019 /

The Warren (Ohio) Tribune Chronicle reports today that the McFarland-Barbee Funeral Home in that city will close its doors for good on Saturday after over 120 years in business. According to the article, which you can read here, owner and director Mark Barbee said on Thursday, “After sitting down with my wife, our accountant, and…

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America’s next migration movement and its effect on funeral service

By Funeral Director Daily / March 29, 2019 /

I’m a history buff and I love to look back and learn what has happened in our country.  I’ve found that many times a “precipitator” happens and that event or group of events causes history to happen.  I was running on my treadmill the other morning watching CNBC for business news and Fox News for…

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What do you see on the Horizon?

By Funeral Director Daily / February 13, 2019 /

The other day a funeral service professional asked me, “What do you see on the horizon for funeral service?”  Since I have not put out any predictions for over a year I thought I would just give an answer on what comes to mind first for me.  Instead of a long, thought out answer sometimes…

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Don’t Lose a Long-Time Client Family

By Funeral Director Daily / September 13, 2017 /

I just read an article by Alyssa McNab on the Homesteaders Life Company blog  where I thought that she did a very good job in delineating how a funeral home could, under certain circumstances, lose a long time client family.  Obviously, this is something no one in the funeral business wants to have happen, but…

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Funeral Service In Paradise

By Funeral Director Daily / July 17, 2017 /

The first time I visited Hawaii was in 1988.  I’d been working as a funeral director for about eight years at the time and knew that funeral service in Hawaii was a little bit different than in Minnesota simply because of the oriental and polynesian cultural influences on the customs as well as the, at…

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