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StoneMor receives financing, completes asset review

By Funeral Director Daily / February 5, 2019 /

Yesterday StoneMor Partners issued a press release which you can read here. In it they “announced a number of key financial and operational updates representing further steps forward in its ongoing turnaround effort. These steps include a waiver and amedment of certain loan covenants, growth financing from its largest investor and the completion of an…

Finding the Right Managment

By Funeral Director Daily / February 5, 2019 /

I came into the funeral business somewhat reluctantly at age 19 when my father suddenly passed away and mom needed someone who would be interested in carrying on the family business. I’ve said many times, the Lord knew what he was doing, because as I reluctantly got involved I learned I was pretty good at…

Own the Message

By Funeral Director Daily / February 1, 2019 /

I happened to see this article from the Wise County Messenger the other day. There is nothing wrong with the article and sometimes news gets out like this. However, it reminded me that when you are in business, and especially personal service businesses like the death care industry, you want to really “own” the message that…

A little help for our Veterans

By Funeral Director Daily / January 30, 2019 /

Nothing earth shattering today, just a couple articles and information I noticed about America’s veterans and a notice from the Department of Veteran Affairs. One of the things we have written about on Funeral Director Daily is that with the growth of direct cremation there tends to be a few cremated remains that just never…

How do you hold on to Heritage Families?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 28, 2019 /

All businesses that want to grow and prosper need to acquire new customers. That is a pretty simple concept. But one thing I’m always amazed at is how so many times business take for granted the customers that they have already acquired. Think about that for a moment. . . . if you can continue…

Making this Cemetery Great Again

By Funeral Director Daily / January 25, 2019 /

Even though this is a real news story with real valid reasoning for two people doing what they are doing, I had to chuckle just a tad when the on scene reporter started his report by saying, “These two guys are making this cemetery great again”. Regardless of your political persuasion, if you have not…

Death Care. . . Regulations and Some Rules

By Funeral Director Daily / January 24, 2019 /

Over the past couple of days I’ve noticed a couple articles on rules and regulations in the Death Care industry. These are not generally municipal or national rules but some rules that are now in effect in different places for different reasons. I guess all that I have cited here make some sense to those…

Interesting Ohio Cemetery Court Case

By Funeral Director Daily / January 22, 2019 /

Last week the trial of Karen Neff, a caretaker with her husband Keith Dwayne Baratie, Sr, of the Belmont Memorial Park Cemetery in Belmont County, Ohio, began. Neff’s husband, and co-defendent, will have a separate trial beginning on February 7. The couple is charged with forgery, aggravated theft and securing by deception. According to the…

In Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Funeral Director Daily / January 21, 2019 /

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Carriage Services Profit drops. . . management to fight back

By Funeral Director Daily / January 18, 2019 /

Death care consolidator Carriage Services issued preliminary 2018 results on Wednesday. You can read a press release from the company here. In those results the company announced that they had grown revenue year over year from $258.1 million in 2017 to an an unaudited estimate of $268.0 million in 2018. That would be an increase…

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