Funeral Director Daily
According to an article and news video out of Cincinnati that you can see and read here a family will likely be pursuing legal action because, in their opinion, their mother looked like a “mess” when they viewed her in a casket. The family contends that she not only looked like a mess, but a…
Read MoreEarlier today I found this article from CNN that talks about the gun violence in Chicago and relates it to the good people at the Leak and Sons Funeral Home and how it affects their lives. Leak and Sons is operated by 81-year old Spencer Leak, Sr. and the gun violence in the city is…
Read MoreA press release from A.M. Best that you can read here has revised the outlook to negative from stable for Funeral Directors Life Insurance Company of Abilene, Texas. The rating change also states that the negative outlook reflects the company’s “ERM” or enterprise risk management. The release also maintains that the company’s metrics “reflect the…
Read MoreA lot happened at the end of last week in the Death Care industry and we will try to give you just a little idea of that as we catch up from over the weekend. StoneMor Partners, L.P. announced in this press release that they will be announcing a corporate transition from a Master Limited…
Read MoreAccording to this article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune , in a ruling made public on Wednesday, a judge upheld a citation by the Minnesota Department of Health that fined a Minnesota funeral home $5000 for, among other things, storing crates of applesauce in the funeral home’s preparation room. Again, according to the newspaper, a…
Read MoreAccording to an article from the United Kingdom’s Telegraph which you can read here, funeral director Catherine Powell encountered a family a few years ago that explicitly said all they wanted was a cremation with the ashes returned to them. Nothing more. Powell complied and the customer was very pleased. Powell remembers thinking that if…
Read MoreIn the thirty-five years that I spent as a working funeral director and funeral home owner I learned to truly comprehend the responsibilities that had been given to me by the families that I served and how they truly relied on my guidance to plan and carry out the memorialization wishes that they had for…
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