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We came across an article recently that introduced new owners at the Hackett-Livingston Funeral Home in Shenandoah, Iowa. The article is interesting to us as it brings up the idea of funeral home brand growth in rural areas. Most people in the death care space will talk about “demographics” as much as they talk about…
Simply because this is happening in real time we thought we would link our readers to an article that appeared in the Epoch Times yesterday relating to an interview with a funeral director in Wuhan, China, and the work he has been doing, because of the coronavirus, over the past week. A Mr. Yun is…
Just yesterday Funeral Director Daily featured an article about staying positive about changes that come within the industry. We wrote about changes in funeral service over the last 150 years and how figuring out how you can enhance your service with those changes is what keeps funeral homes relevant to death care consumers. Today, we…
In this article from Business Insider that was published last Saturday, the Chinese National Health Commission along with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Public Affairs issued regulations stating that all coronavirus deaths in China must be immediately cremated with “no farewell ceremonies or other funeral activities involving the corpse”. Up until…
An interesting article came out this past weekend from the Metrowest Daily News of suburban Boston. The article, that you can read here, dealt with the changes in funeral service over time for some of the long established funeral homes west of Boston in Worcester, Massachusetts. Some of the funeral homes questioned for the article…
Last Friday the Park Lawn Corporation, headquartered in Toronto, issued this press release which confirms that they have completed an acquisition announced earlier in the year. The press release tells of the completion of the Nashville, Tennessee area acquisition which includes Family Legacy, LLC, a business with 12 locations. The acquisition also includes the membership…
Over the weekend we noticed this article from the Perryville News of Perryville, Missouri. It concerns an issue that we are seeing more and more of as funeral homes and other concerns attempt to place new crematories in areas that they have not been located in before. That issue centers around the public perception of…
I saw this title or something like it on my daily Google death care alerts and thought. . “What of it”. The American Millennial generation started with births in 1980. . what is so strange about a 40-year old managing a mortuary. My goodness, we have people younger than that serving in the United States…
Editor’s Note: Funeral Director Daily has grown greatly in subscribers in the last two years. Because of such I have decided that every once in a while I will throw out a well read article to be read again. The article will have to continue to be relevant in the profession when I do such. …
Our funeral home firm embarked on building a new physical funeral home with a first ever, for us, crematory included in 2005. It’s hard to believe that we have been headquartered there for 15 years as I remember things such as pointing out what trees we wanted to save on the bare lot. Some of…
