Funeral Director Daily

Afternoon Edition: Get to Know Them – Peter Rose

By Funeral Director Daily / October 15, 2020 /

Today’s feature in our popular “Get to Know Them” edition is centered on Peter J. Rose, CFSP, LFD, and General Manager of the Betz, Rossi, Bellinger and Stewart Family Funeral Homes in Amsterdam, New York. While the “Get to Know Them” feature is centered around getting to know the profession and what differing duties and…

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Parting Stone keeps moving forward

By Funeral Director Daily / October 15, 2020 /

It is not everyday that a new category for the consumer to choose from comes along.  A new category has to be so unique that while it may have other ideas to compete with it, it is somewhat all by itself in the product or service it offers to the consumer. What is interesting is…

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Funeral Directors: Know that you are appreciated

By Funeral Director Daily / October 14, 2020 /

For almost 35 years I went about doing my job as an owner/operator of a mortuary.  I answered calls, I did some embalmings, I met with families, and I conducted thousands of funerals.  I know that by my nature that I am a “people pleaser” and I always strived to please everyone whom I was…

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Will regulations kill small town funeral homes

By Funeral Director Daily / October 13, 2020 /

I started to read this linked article from Fort Wayne Business that you can access here with the thought of including another story on a locally owned small town funeral home investing in their community by building new facilities to serve the people of that community.  The article deals with owners Miles and Tarah Wilson…

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Afternoon Edition: Smith Family Funeral Homes acquires insurance company

By Funeral Director Daily / October 12, 2020 /

Smith Family Funeral Homes of North Little Rock, Arkansas announced last week that they have acquired American Home Life Insurance Company, also of North Little Rock.  Interestingly enough, American Home Life Insurance Company was founded by the grandfather of Smith Family Funeral Homes current President Jeff Smith. Smith was quoted in this article from Arkansas…

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When the school bell rings

By Funeral Director Daily / October 12, 2020 /

I believe that I’m now in my 8th month of living in the COVID world.  And, in that world a lot has changed about how I do things.  Even with the change, however, things seem to be slowly returning to normal in my state of Minnesota.  Our students are in school, our high school football…

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Foundation Partners Group expands leadership team

By Funeral Director Daily / October 9, 2020 /

In a press release that we received last week, Foundation Partners Group announced that they had expanded and repositioned their leadership team.  According to the release that you can read here, this will “position the company for continued growth and innovation.” The release explains that Bob Bukala, formerly the President and CEO, will remain CEO…

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Afternoon Edition: “Get to Know Them” — Joe Weigel

By Funeral Director Daily / October 8, 2020 /

As you know we have been dedicating the Thursday Afternoon Edition to our new feature, “Get to Know Them”.  This feature tries to bring forth the many facets of the death care profession and differing occupations within such. I’ve learned that not all of our readers are funeral home owners or funeral home directors and…

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How direct cremation pioneer Pure Cremation has disrupted the UK’s funeral industry

By Funeral Director Daily / October 8, 2020 /

*Re-printed with permission from Pure Cremation. Before 2015 the funeral industry in Great Britain still looked and felt very Victorian. Most ceremonies were still rooted in 200-year old traditions and any deviation from the norm was frowned upon by both funeral directors and mourners. However, this was set to change when veteran undertaker Bryan Powell…

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Selling preneed. . . . positively

By Funeral Director Daily / October 7, 2020 /

Ask ten different consumers and you will get ten different opinions on “insurance”.  Especially, life insurance.  Some think it is necessary, some think it is a waste of time, some love the peace of mind it can bring, some will say let my survivors deal with the money after my death. You get the idea.…

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