Funeral Director Daily

Foundation Partners adds to Florida Gulf Coast operations

By Funeral Director Daily / June 12, 2020 /

In this release from Foundation Partners Group you can read about their new acquisitions on the west coast of Florida.  The Orlando based company announced on Wednesday, June 10, that they had acquired two firms with common ownership in that area. It was announced that Foundation Partners Group (FPG) acquired the Jennings Funeral Home and…

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COVID-19 and its possible effects on the funeral profession

By Funeral Director Daily / June 11, 2020 /

As I dwell on what is going on currently – such as the market rebounding to its past level, businesses opening up across the country, and school administrators deciding on how to safely open up for classes in the Fall, I cannot help but wonder if the funeral profession will have ramifications because of the…

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Goings on in the independent funeral home world

By Funeral Director Daily / June 10, 2020 /

Sometimes I can get going about a subject and give you my opinion before you have even had a chance to read the article and form an opinion on your own.  Like everybody, my experiences that I have lived slant the opinions that I profess. And, while I grew up and operated as a 4th…

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The battle to build a cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / June 9, 2020 /

New Orleans, Louisiana, is known as a great American city.  Because the city sits about 15-18 feet below sea level and has levies protecting the city its cemeteries are well known for their unique above ground burials in some places.  Because of some of these type of land issues, the city itself has found itself…

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Is “Old Fashioned” the new technology

By Funeral Director Daily / June 8, 2020 /

A couple of non-death care profession articles that I read this weekend really made me think of the death care profession and where we are moving.  Just to make the record straight before I get into where we might be moving, I want to point out that I think all businesses are perpetually “moving” to…

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Catching up with eziFunerals

By Funeral Director Daily / June 5, 2020 /

There is no doubt that opinions can sway back and forth and can change over time.  I’ve noticed it in my own life. . . . as a young person I pretty much looked at every issue as black or white.  As I’ve aged and had the opportunity to experience more things, meet different people,…

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Moving into niche death care

By Funeral Director Daily / June 4, 2020 /

Today’s Funeral Director Daily feature will have a decidedly Minnesota bent to it.  We are going to tell you of Angela Woosley, a mortician and recently a senior teaching specialist at the University of Minnesota who has decided to leave the academic world and pursue her own business that will provide alternative end-of-life options for…

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Keeping the business flowing

By Funeral Director Daily / June 3, 2020 /

I love the idea of “American ingenuity”.  To me it means the thought process that is developed to keep things moving ahead even when the system to do so has been upended.  And, around the world this Spring, the system has truly been upended with the advent of the COVID-19 situation. However, if you are…

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Afternoon News: Part 3 of CNET’s Future of Funeral Series and more

By Funeral Director Daily / June 2, 2020 /

Today we bring you a couple of articles that we came across this morning that may be of interest to you.  The first is the third installment of CNET’s  (CBS Interactive) continuing series entitled “The Future of Funerals”.  Today’s episode deals with alkaline hydrolysis and CNET titles the article “The misunderstood funeral tech that is…

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Security National reports revenue up, income down in Q1 2020 results

By Funeral Director Daily / June 2, 2020 /

Back on May 18,2020, Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC) reported its 1st Quarter 2020 results that encompassed the period from January 1, 2020 to March 31, 2020.  The results, which you can see in a press release here, showed that the company increased revenues in the period compared to the prior year’s revenue by 29.2%…

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