Funeral Director Daily
Members of the death care media were informed yesterday via press release that the CEO and Chairman of Toronto based Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), Andrew Clark, would be stepping down as Chairman and CEO of the company. You can read the press release here. The release quoted Clark as saying, “It has been a tremendous…
Read MoreEven though yesterday was the President’s Day holiday and the markets were closed across America, Service Corporation International took the opportunity to report their financial numbers for the 4th Quarter of 2019 and also for the Year End 2019. We will just report some of the numbers today and after we have a chance to…
Read MoreI attended a memorial service yesterday. The format of the service has become pretty standard in our community. The service was for a lady/wife/mother of which I know the husband to some extent. I consider him a really nice guy and attended the service because I wanted to let him know that I care and…
Read MoreIt is always sad to see when fire destroys any business, but for us in the funeral business it is heartbreaking to see our colleagues go through something that we hope never happens to us. Over the weekend we learned of February fires that destroyed at least two of our colleagues places of business. This…
Read MoreChalk this incident up to “This should never happen” but it did. In this article from the Bucks County Courier Times of Pennsylvania we learn of the tale of Richard Geisinger who died in 2013. The article tells the story of how Mr. Geisinger, who had pre-arrangements for a casketed burial, was instead cremated and…
Read MoreI was looking for material for an idea for a daily blog post the other day and noticed a headline from a publication called The Vermont Cynic. The headline read “Comedians talk death and perform live”. Interesting and witty with their headline I dug into reading the article which you can read here. As I…
Read MoreI came across an interesting article the other day from The Pantagraph of Bloomington, Illinois. The article, that you can read here, simply relates to an 1893 funeral bill that was donated to the McLean County Museum of History. It’s interesting to look at the billing statement which is illustrated in the article and see…
Read MoreCo-operative businesses were once very common place in America. Especially in rural, agricultural America where co-operatives came together with dairy farmers banding together to produce milk products such as cheese and cream for the member farmers, or for area residents to co-operate to bring electricity to far flung farms, or for a mutual benefit society…
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