Funeral Director Daily
Effective as of yesterday, February 2, 2026, Carriage Services implemented “a series of executive leadership promotions and appointments that reflect the Company’s continued momentum and its deliberate efforts over the past several years to build a durable foundation for sustained growth” according to this January press release from the company. Carlos Quezada, Vice…
In a press release issued earlier in January 2026 out of Batesville, Indiana, ClearPoint Federal Bank & Trust made the following statement: “ClearPoint Federal Bank & Trust, a federally chartered savings bank that has been providing trust and recordkeeping services to the funeral and cemetery industry since 1998, announced today that Community…
According to provisional data released from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in January of this year the overall age-adjusted “Death Rate” in the United States for 2025 was about 722 deaths per 100,000 of population. In the Death Care business we have usually based our historical numbers on a “per 1,000” population number…
We learned from this article written by Fort Erie Radio that Service Corporation International (SCI) recently purchased two funeral homes in the Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, community. According to the article, the Williams Funeral Home and Benner Funeral Services were sold to SCI in January of 2026. According to the article the funeral…
Texas Senator John Cornyn authored a bill that was passed by the Senate, the House, and signed into law by President Trump in late December 2025, that was included in the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act. The bill, as you can see and read in this news video report and print article from…
It’s not something I thought about ever. And, while I sensed some of the psychological needs associated with it, I’d never thought of it in the sense I learned about it last week. What am I talking about? — “Mattering”. “Mattering” is defined on Gemini Artificial Intelligence as such “. . the universal…
Funeral Director Daily publishes lots of articles that deal with the business, or money side of Death Care. That’s good. . .and readers seem to like it, however, I never want any of us to forget about the “Humanity” side of working in Death Care. Every so often in my search for editorial…
In this morning’s edition of Funeral Director Daily we linked two investment reports on Service Corporation International (SCI). As we mentioned both reports gave “bullish” opinions on the company and the chance for investment gain over time. Here’s how one of those reports summed up its conclusion for a positive investment outlook…
When you follow the public companies in Death Care like I do it is unusual to find articles about them appearing very often. But, last week two separate authors of Seeking Alpha gave opinions on Death Care public company Service Corporation International (SCI). As is my custom with these types of articles I…
I guess “Private” means “Privacy” and that is probably why it is so difficult to get information on how the Private Equity market is doing. The status of the industry is, however, of much interest to those in the Death Care profession because so much money has entered Death Care through private equity in…
