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Security National posts 70% increase in year over year revenues

By Funeral Director Daily / April 8, 2021 /

Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC), the Utah based company with segments in the preneed insurance, funeral home assignment, mortuary, and cemetery business, released their 4th Quarter of 2020 and Year End 2020 results last week.  The first line from that press release which you can read here, states, “For the twelve months ended December 31,…

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Archbishop says, “No more” referring to extreme embalmings in the church

By Funeral Director Daily / April 7, 2021 /

In 2018, when I learned about it, Funeral Director Daily introduced our readers to “Extreme Embalming” via this article about some funerals that had taken place in New Orleans.  “Extreme Embalming”, for better or worse, is the moniker that has been given to the embalming art of embalming bodies and posing them in “life-like” forms…

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FEMA to begin taking applications for funeral assistance

By Funeral Director Daily / April 6, 2021 /

We started hearing in early January that the omnibus Covid relief bill passed by Congress in December 2020 would have some type of reimbursement for funeral expenses of Covid-19 victims.  It was rumored that relief would be administered out of the funding provided to the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA). We’ve now learned in the…

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Small town funeral homes. . . going concerns, satellites, or gone?

By Funeral Director Daily / April 5, 2021 /

Last week as I was perusing death care articles for future stories an interesting name popped up and I dived in to learn more about what was happening.   The name was “Woodstock” and the article pertained to developers trying to maneuver a way to purchase what had now become the last funeral home property in…

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Business continuity. . . Disaster recovery. . . .are you prepared

By Funeral Director Daily / April 2, 2021 /

For the 33 years that I operated my own funeral home I was a lot like a lot of you out there.  I was so busy dealing with families, making sure that funerals were done correctly, and, just basically, operating the business on a day to day basis that long -range planning sometimes went by…

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Foundation Partners adds Washington state acquisition

By Funeral Director Daily / April 1, 2021 /

Foundation Partners Group (FPG), the privately held death care consolidator with headquarters in Orlando, Florida, announced earlier this week an acquisition to add to their 160 plus facilities. In this press release you can read that FPG acquired the Klontz Funeral Home and Cremation Services company based in Auburn, Washington.  According to the press release,…

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Park Lawn Corporation sees “significant growth in revenue, net earnings”

By Funeral Director Daily / April 1, 2021 /

Park Lawn Corporation reported their 2020 4th Quarter and Year End financial numbers earlier this week and the press release, which you can read here, states “. . . PLC finished 2020 with a powerful performance in Q4, which included achieving significant growth in revenue, net earnings, Adjusted Net Earnings, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EBITA…

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Bringing your public image to reality

By Funeral Director Daily / March 31, 2021 /

If you are operating a business, such as a funeral home or cemetery, and that business has been around for several years, whether you like it or not, that business has a perception to the public.  The good news is that if the business has been around for a length of time, then it is…

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Maine legislature considering “outdoor open-air cremations”

By Funeral Director Daily / March 30, 2021 /

You can read in this article and video report that the State of Maine legislature has before its Health and Human Services Committee a bill that would allow non-profit entities to carry out open-air cremations and then scatter the remains on the property owned by the non-profit. The bill would require the non-profit to own…

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Revenues, operating income pop for StoneMor. . . . 2020 year end report

By Funeral Director Daily / March 29, 2021 /

In a report issued last week, StoneMor Inc. released its financial results for the 4th Quarter of 2020 and for the full-year of 2020.  Here’s what CEO Joe Redling said in the report that you can read here, “The groundwork that was laid with our transformation initiatives, allowed StoneMor to produce another very strong quarter…

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