Funeral Director Daily
We said almost two years ago that the best way for funeral home and cemetery operator StoneMor Partners L.P. to right their ship was to divest themselves of some properties and use the cash proceeds to pay down debt so that they can get to a position where they are operating in a financial positive…
Carriage Services, the Houston based funeral home and cemetery operator made a big announcement after business hours on Monday. The company issued a press release which highlighted not only the acquisition of, what they say in the release is the largest by a combined revenue definition, acquisition in their 28-year history, but also announced personnel…
In news that broke after business hours on Monday, it was reported in this article from Oakland that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and three Bay area district attorneys filed a lawsuit against the Neptune Society and Trident Society for misleading customers about the protection of money paid in advance for cremation. Both companies are…
Alkaline hydrolysis as a means of final disposition keeps growing in legality in states across the United States. Recomposition, the act of human composting becomes legal in the State of Washington this year, and now it is probable that the State of Kansas will see a bill introduced into its legislature to legalize “promession” as…
According to this article in the Kokomo (Indiana) Perspective, the Ellers Mortuary and Cremation Center was acquired by Service Corporation International in 2016. Some feared that the acquisition would cause the Kokomo business, that had been in business since 1924, to lose its personal touch. However, according to General Manager Jaime Handy, “the acquisition has…
We will start off our December writings going to the subject of cremation. Over the long holiday weekend we noticed a couple of articles that we found interesting. We will bring you some information from Greece and a couple of cremation products that have their origin in Japan. As you know, from this article that…
Australia’s largest purveyor of death care services, InvoCare, has been accused by some of irregularities in the way that it handles its invoicing. According to this article from Choice.com, InvoCare routinely includes a $320, plus taxes, “administration fee” on invoices. Again, according to the Choice.com article, the administration fee functions somewhat as a “late…
Happy Thanksgiving Day 2019 to all of our readers. We hope that today brings you time with your family and loved ones. Here is a Thanksgiving Prayer for funeral directors that was published in the New York State Funeral Directors online bulletin. According to the NYSFD association, it was originally published in Iowa. [wpforms id=”436″…
