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Today we just pass on a couple of items that we found that we thought would be of interest to you. Please note that the webinar entitled, “COVID 19 – Your Legal Questions Answered” is scheduled for tomorrow. Webinar: Covid-19: Your Legal Questions Answered. Friday, April 17. 10 am Eastern time. 9 am Central time. …
Most people in the death care profession know that StoneMor, Inc. has, for the last couple of years, been on what they term an “operational turnaround”. The company, based just outside of Philadelphia, is said to be the second largest, next to Service Corporation International (SCI), death care company in North America. The death care…
One of the great things in being part of the funeral, cremation, cemetery, and its supply business is that, as you work in it over time, you realize that it is a pretty small professional world and you get to know lots of people and lots of companies in the realm. Also, you realize that…
I continue to be on the learning end of the equation while I am sheltering in place at home. Last Friday I was able to take part in a National Funeral Directors Association webinar featuring two seasoned veterans of the profession and how they are dealing with all things COVID-19 as it pertains to their…
According to this article in the Examiner Live from the United Kingdom, British funeral directors from the West Yorkshire area, that area administrated by the Kirklees Council, are disappointed that the Kirklees Council has taken a position that no mourners may be present at the crematorium for services of a loved one. The article states,…
Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC), the Utah public company that is partly rooted in the preneed funeral insurance and mortuary/cemetery business, recently reported its 2019 year end financial results. You can read the company’s press release on the results here. The results do say, “For the twelve months ended December 31, 2019, SNFC’s after-tax earnings…
It’s a little unusual for me to publish a message for Easter with Funeral Director Daily, but circumstances in the last week have made me reflect on who we are as a profession, as a country, and as people of faith. While our friends of Jewish faith are in their period of observing Passover at…
The other day I received a phone call from a national writer doing a story on how the COVID-19 pandemic is and will affect funeral homes now and into the future. I shared some of my thoughts and I don’t know if that reporter will use them or not, but I thought I would recount…
In this press release that we found on the PR Newswire, funeral home operator Foundation Partners Group has announced that it is ready to serve America during the potential surge wave of COVID-19 across the country. Quoting from the release, “Foundation Partners Group , operator of more than 135 funeral homes, cremation centers and cemeteries…
Last week Funeral Director Daily realized it could make a difference getting out information, mostly pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic and our profession. Over a few days we attempted to aggregate information that could be useful to people in the death care professions and use our subscription base to blast that information out. Thanks to…
