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South Dakota Approves Veterans Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / March 14, 2018 /

Last week the South Dakota legislature approved a plan to build a State Veterans Cemetery in Sioux Falls.  The Senate voted last week to direct the state to submit a grant application to the National Cemetery Administration and build the project. You can read about the project here. The bill also calls for an endowment…

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Mistake Leads Nova Scotia to tighten Funeral Rules

By Funeral Director Daily / March 14, 2018 /

  The Nova Scotia Board of Registration of Embalmers and Funeral Directors issued a report last week calling for their legislature to “ensure that there is a system in place” for the handling of human remains.  The report was prompted by a mix-up at a Nova Scotia funeral home on December 27, 2017, that was…

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Landslide Causing Problems at SCI Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / March 13, 2018 /

According to an article in the West Virginia Herald-Dispatch that you can read here, excessive rainfall has caused problems at the Woodmere Cemetery in Huntington, WV.  The cemetery is owned by Service Corporation International. The problem manifested itself about three weeks ago when excessive rainfall washed the back side of the cemetery onto Norway Avenue. …

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Newcomer Funeral Service Group purchases Dayton Property

By Funeral Director Daily / March 13, 2018 /

A sale was recorded last Monday in the Dayton, Ohio area pertaining to the purchase of land at 820 Miamisburg-Centerville Road according to property records reported by the Dayton Daily News.  The property, with seven acres of land, was owned by Schlientz-Moore Funeral Home and purchased by Warren Family Funeral Homes, Inc. According to the…

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Monday Round-Up

By Funeral Director Daily / March 12, 2018 /

Funeral Director Daily found a lot of news over the weekend on the death care industry.  Instead of trying to pick a great article for our readers we thought that today we would just throw you the headlines of some interesting articles and let you you click to any you might be interested in reading…

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Mortuary School Issue may cause Invalidated Licenses

By Funeral Director Daily / March 12, 2018 /

The New York Post reported over the weekend in an article that you can read here that the State Bureau of Funeral Directing has notified 94 New York morticians that they will lose their licenses if they don’t re-take their exam by June 30 or apply for an extension to December 31.  In addition, according…

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TN Senator Alexander in Support of Veteran Burial Benefit

By Funeral Director Daily / March 9, 2018 /

I read an interesting article yesterday and learned something – after 35 years in the funeral business – that I did not know about our veterans and the cemeteries that they are buried in.  I have always been aware of the Veteran’s Administration and the National Cemeteries that they controlled and operated.  Yesterday, I learned…

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SCI Presents at Raymond James Investor Conference

By Funeral Director Daily / March 8, 2018 /

  Death care industry company Service Corporation International recently presented at the Raymond James 39th Annual Institutional Investors Conference.  I’ve found a  slide deck about their company on Seeking Alpha that you can see here.  It was part of their power point presentation to institutional investors and is an interesting synopsis of the company as…

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The Growing Numbers of Women Funeral Directors

By Funeral Director Daily / March 8, 2018 /

I came across an article the other day  on nextavenue.org that you can read here pertaining to the growing number of women who are entering the funeral director field.  The article focused on funeral director Jan Smith of Indianapolis who attended mortuary school in the 1990s.  Ms. Smith recalls that the number of females in…

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An Idea for Public Relations or Revenue Generation

By Funeral Director Daily / March 7, 2018 /

As has become our custom we at Funeral Director Daily periodically highlight one of our social media followers.  Today we are choosing to highlight a unique company whose product crosses over into the death care industry. Cloverlawn Butterflies is a small, family operated butterfly farm based in Orlando, Florida.  It is a very unique company…

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