Funeral Director Daily
Australian funeral customer Jane Sinclair has created a little bit of a stir down under by calling for more transparency in the way that client families are charged for funeral services. Ms. Sinclair, according to this article from ABC Australia, complained months after the services were performed for her mother. She is quoted as saying…
Read MoreThis article from a European publication indicates that the recent visit to Ireland by President Donald Trump and his contingent paid off handsomely for an Irish based livery company. It is estimated that the Irish livery company JP Ward & Sons will receive close to $1 million during the Presidential trip that includes the D-Day…
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago (byline May 17) financial writers Kate Duguid and Jessica DiNapoli wrote a piece that was picked up by Reuters that you can read here. The article concerns the financial wherewithal of United States funeral home and cemetery operator StoneMor Partners LP. From our point of view, it is a very…
Read MoreDuring my time as a funeral home owner I had to visit with the county Social Services director, with other funeral home owners, to discuss the procedure and re-imbursements for what we termed “county burials” about every other year. The discussion was always the same. . . .the county had a limited amount of money…
Read MoreIt was announced on Friday in this article that the Shaw & Sons Funeral Home of Yakima Valley, Washington, was under the ownership of Jamin and Kara Mohler. According to Jamin Mohler who stated, “Shaw & Sons has once again become a family-owned, local, neighbor-serving-neighbor funeral home”. The funeral home was started in 1899, and…
Read MoreIn the United Kingdom, sales of pre-need funeral plans has soared nearly 200% in the last dozen years. Driven by the increasing competition between the largest players in that country’s death care industry, Dignity Plc, and Co-op Funeralcare, the government has determined that it must “crack-down” on high-pressure and misleading tactics in the sale of…
Read MoreTo cap off the week and the month of May we are forwarding to you three separate articles from the world of death care. Click on the links of these articles to learn more. State of Washington and its Death Certificate Problem- An editorial from the Spokane Spokesman-Review that you can read here goes into…
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