Funeral Director Daily
The longer we live, the more we learn about ourselves and others. As you may know my wife, Angie, and I winter for three months in Southwest Florida. This past week I’ve been alone as Angie each year takes a week or ten days to travel back to Minnesota to visit with her…
For a period of time it was unknown to the owners of Caskets of Honor, located in Calvin, Oklahoma, that selling caskets in their home state was illegal without the procurement of a funeral director’s license. Then, according to this recent story from KFOR-TV of Oklahoma City, the husband and wife ownership team of…
As has become our custom, Funeral Director Daily reports and gives our commentary on Quarterly and Annual financial reports of the public companies in Death Care. And, then it comes to the principals of those public companies giving commentary and answering questions for financial reporters about their reports in what are called Earnings Calls.…
I was a funeral director that operated my own funeral home with the help of five or six other licensed funeral directors. Much of the last 15 years of my work-life consisted of management, but there were times where I made funeral arrangements, wrote obituaries, and was asked to produce video tributes. …
Green-Wood Cemetery, the venerable and historic cemetery in New York City announced last week a plan to become the first facility on America’s East Coast that will offer Natural Organic Reduction (NOR) or Terramation within its facililty. Legalized in the state of New York in 2023, Green-Wood says, according to this recent article from…
Funeral directors should feel good about their role in helping the “The Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Cemetery Administration earn the highest customer satisfaction score ever achieved by any public or private organization measured by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), as part of the group’s 2025 report.” According to this press release…
When Funeral Director Daily put out our last list of Top Five read articles for the month it was on the heels of Holiday readership which dropped. Well, our readership for January rebounded to almost record levels and it appears that part of the reason was that there was something of interest for readers…
It was just two months ago that Funeral Director Daily published this article titled “Park Lawn purchases 8 funeral homes in greater Oklahoma City market”. At that time the press release from Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) noted that “Entering Oklahoma marks an exciting milestone in our growth strategy.. . ” And recently,…
Valentine’s Day is in the past and we have already arrived at the 3rd Tuesday of February which means that it is time for the monthly Cremation Association of North America’s (CANA) Funeral Professional Peer Support Meeting. Here’s what a recent CANA press release said about this month’s session: “As practitioners,…
Going back to the time — over 50 years ago — when I was in junior high school (Middle School today) I had discusions with my father from time-to-time about what I would want to do with my life as I grew up. When it came to following in his footsteps in the family…
