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Among the articles that we feature in today’s Afternoon Edition is a press release from the Unum Company. Unum, an insurance company, says in this release that the coronavirus pandemic has changed insurance needs of families. The results of their survey indicated that 41% of Americans say that the pandemic has changed the way that…
Late last week when Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s body was being removed from Statutory Hall at the United States Capitol I heard that her body would be interred this week at Arlington National Cemetery. As a person who loves the history, majesty, and ceremony that is Arlington National Cemetery, I wondered a little…
As we head into the weekend we will leave you with a couple of different ways that a cemetery and a funeral home honored the veterans that they feel privileged to serve. In Pennsylvania the cemetery at Belleman’s Church was the scene of last Sunday’s Allegiance Sunday ceremony. Allegiance Sunday signifies the day in 1778…
Foundation Partners Group, the Orlando based company that has grown by acquisition to over 140 locations of funeral homes, cremation centers, and cemeteries across the United States announced earlier this week that they had acquired the Clark Legacy Center of Kentucky. According to this press release from Foundation Partners, the acquisition will add three locations…
Today’s “Get to Know Them” article features Bob Heidlage of Global Recruiters of Cincinnati.. I know Bob only from his kind comments that he passed on to me about his daily reading of Funeral Director Daily. From those comments I wanted to know more about him and his link to the death care profession. From…
The other day we received a press release announcing that “The Domani Group joins forces with Homesteaders Life Company”. In that release, which you can read here, it announced “The Domani Group, a leader in preneed and aftercare solutions for funeral homes, is pleased to announce it is joining forces with Homesteaders Life Company.” This…
The last thing I want to do with Funeral Director Daily is get into political sides of issues. And, I will try to once again straddle the line today with this article I entitle “COVID-19 and Cremation. . more cremation. . what could it mean”. I happened to see this article entitled “The COVID-19 Cremation…
Today we start a new feature with Funeral Director Daily. This feature is entitled, “Funeral Home of the Week”, and is just what it says it is — each week we will present one funeral home in an interview process for others to learn about. It is our hope, as we feature all sizes of…
Yesterday we published an article dealing with the potential $1 billion value of a consolidated group of companies that serve the death care space. Yet, to my knowledge, not one of these companies deals with the physical aspect of taking care of the deceased human being. I was, and still am, somewhat astonished at that…
