Funeral Director Daily
Last week I had a two hour drive and set my radio to a station on Sirius that featured a news talk show. What was highly unusual was that the group of well-known broadcasters started talking about death care and then started talking about what their wishes would be for their own…
Robert L. Waltrip, age 92, founder of death care company Service Corporation International, died on Monday, February 27, 2023. A Celebration of Life service is scheduled for today (March 2). Interment is scheduled in the Reflection Garden of Memorial Oaks Cemetery in Houston, Texas. You can access an obituary powered…
Funeral director Collin Bourgeois made this comment in this article from CBC, “I certainly tried to retire. It lasted three weeks.” Bourgeois is a funeral director and owner of and operator of a funeral business with three locations in northeastern Ontario. After 45 years in the business he’s staying on the job…
Editor’s Note: This article was scheduled for earlier this morning but for some reason was not picked up by our email subscription service. . .Well, better late than never. Sorry for the inconvenience. Here is the article you should have received earlier today: Sometimes things happen that can turn a fundamental business upside…
We are a little bit late this month but here are the stories that our readers found most interesting over the last 30 days. . .well, actually the 30 days from January 15, 2023, to February 15, 2023. There’s something for everybody in these articles — acquisitions, buy-outs, local promotion, corporate thoughts, and…
Funeral home and cemetery operator Carriage Services reported their 4th Quarter and Year End Financial Reports last week. You can access that report here. In doing so they reported that the number of “Services” the company conducted had dropped 2.9% as compared to the yearly results for 2021. The company conducted 47,184 services…
This is one of those articles that I will write that probably has no answers. It only brings up questions. That question today is “What’s with Excess Deaths”? When the pandemic hit and deaths increased for almost all funeral homes across the world, one of the questions asked was “With these extra…
Last week North America’s largest funeral service company, Service Corporation International (SCI), announced in their 4th Quarter report “On the acquisition front, we had a very active fourth quarter investing $89 million in four separate transactions across the United States and Canada. These transactions added 14 funeral homes and 3 cemeteries, which included 3 combination locations.” And…
We’ve recently noticed some webinars and podcasts that we feel are very timely and you might enjoy watching them. Also, all of these programs are free of charge, except in some instances where you may want to earn CEU credits for them. Here’s the information you need to access these. From…
