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Cemetery Turns up at Tax Auction

By Funeral Director Daily / March 2, 2018 /

According to an article in the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle that you can read here, a local cemetery turned up on a list of abandoned properties to be auctioned off in Dickinson County (Kansas).  Once discovered, the property was pulled off the auction and the county applied for tax exempt status – which has been approved –…

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The Saturday Service Dilemma

By Funeral Director Daily / March 2, 2018 /

  Have you noticed in the last several years the number of Saturday funeral or memorial services that you conduct in comparison to the services that are done the rest of the week.  At least, anecdotally, if you don’t keep statistics, you must feel you are scheduling staff more and more on Saturdays to serve…

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Park Lawn Corporation Buys Additional U.S. Cemeteries

By Funeral Director Daily / March 1, 2018 /

In a press release issued yesterday from Park Lawn Corporation of Toronto, that you can read here, the company announced the acquisition of all of the outstanding membership interest of CMS Mid-Atlantic for a purchase price of approximately US $50 million. CMS Mid-Atlantic, according to the release, operates, manages, and provides financial services for seven…

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Unclaimed Bodies and Indigent Payments

By Funeral Director Daily / March 1, 2018 /

Alana Durkin Richer of the Associated Press compiled a good article that appeared in the Detroit News that you can read here.  The article is on the growing problem of what to do with indigent bodies when states or municipalities responsible for them are either running out of money or the expected reimbursement to funeral…

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Digital Billboards to Announce Deaths

By Funeral Director Daily / March 1, 2018 /

I am always amazed at what is happening in the funeral industry that I have not caught on to yet.  My friend, Dave Westburg, who operates Billboard Insider blog and who was instrumental in telling me that I have the knowledge to start a death care industry blog, just scooped me on something that I…

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Security National Liquidates Apartment Complex

By Funeral Director Daily / February 28, 2018 /

Security National Life Insurance Company, a stock featured in the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI), announced in a press release yesterday that they have sold the Dry Creek Apartments, a 282 unit multifamily complex in Sandy, Utah.  You can read the release here. The company is involved in three business segments that really…

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The Contributions of John Samuel Robinson — A Good Man

By Funeral Director Daily / February 28, 2018 /

We at Funeral Director Daily could not let February turn into March without recognizing that February represents Black History Month.  We also felt that this would be the perfect time to tell you that although names are not always recorded in history books, it does not mean that those people did not play a significant…

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South Dakota State Veterans Cemetery Caught Up in Appropriations

By Funeral Director Daily / February 27, 2018 /

Back on January 12 Funeral Director Daily brought you a story, that you can read here, about the South Dakota Veteran’s Council making its only priority for the 2018 legislation session a state owned and operated cemetery in the Sioux Falls area.  The only veteran’s cemetery in the state is the Fort Meade Cemetery near…

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Death in 2015 – Body Found in Funeral Home Two Weeks Ago

By Funeral Director Daily / February 27, 2018 /

I recently read about a disturbing case coming out of Spartanburg, South Carolina.  In a story found on News 2 which you can see and read here, it appears that the Spartanburg County Coroner’s office was notified on February 8, 2018, that a “stored” human body was located at the First Family Funeral Home. According…

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ScatterPods from England

By Funeral Director Daily / February 26, 2018 /

    An occaissional  new feature that we will be starting at Funeral Director Daily is to introduce our readers to some of the new products and features that we find in the Death Care industry.  We will learn of most of these companies as they follow Funeral Director Daily from around the world on Twitter,…

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