Funeral Director Daily
Today’s afternoon edition tells of a Dayton, Ohio, decision by a judge that overturns a variance needed to operate a crematory. Funeral Director Daily will also give you news of a large funeral home acquisition of six Ohio mortuaries. Finally, we’ve got some other stories and a listing of some of the events for learning…
As I search for articles that might be of interest to readers of Funeral Director Daily I see lots of headlines. Headlines are the first indicator of what draws me into an article that might be of interest and then, if that has piqued my interest, I will get into the meat of the article…
The National Alliance for Grieving Children (NAGC) named death care industry veteran Jim Price to its Board of Directors last week. Price has over 50 years of experience in the funeral profession and is a 3rd generation funeral director. He currently serves as Senior Vice-President, Industry Relations for Park Lawn Corporation. Jim, earlier in his…
When it comes to “Financial Literacy” I consider myself one of the lucky ones who had a father who insisted that his children learn about how to manage whatever income it was that you made. My dad was a business man, and in our house growing up, not only were we expected to learn the…
In today’s afternoon edition we have a little something for everybody. We’ve got information on educational opportunities coming up for industry professionals dealing with everything from attracting consumers to your funeral home to insights on the financial markets, to podcasts on interesting topics from the National Funeral Directors Association. On the news front there are…
The Anderson Funeral Home of which I was a 4th generation owner/operator has been in our community since 1872. Dates sometimes go over our heads, but I used to like to remind people that we were in our 5th year of business when the historic “Battle of Little Big Horn” was fought and Gen. George…
Columnist Lee Schafer had a business column in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Sunday that you can read here. The basic tenet of the article was on decision making and the decisions we are making when it comes to the mask/no mask decision by Americans. Eventually, the article gets into the thought process, that as…
We’ve got plenty of death care information from around the world for you today. Two of our stories relate to current events in the United States and come to us from the state of Texas. We’ve also got some death care information from Italy and Iraq as well as a 100th year of business celebration…
Earlier in July Funeral Director Daily featured an article entitled, “Does death care have a consumer influencer?” The article pertained to our profession and wondered out loud if death care had someone that was able to “influence” consumers as to their choice of death care. That “influencer group” is in a lot of other industries…
