Funeral Director Daily

Mortuary Science Student Named 2017 WNBA MVP

By Funeral Director Daily / September 20, 2017 /

If you live in Minnesota like I do you are very aware of the WNBA.  The WNBA, or Women’s National Basketball Association, is the summer – and female – version of the NBA.  Our hometown, Minnesota Lynx have been National Champions three times.  This year our Lynx are in the play-off process right now and…

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West Virginia: Audit Says State Should End Funeral Service Board

By Funeral Director Daily / September 19, 2017 /

Members of the West Virginia’s Performance Evaluation and Research  Division (PERD) were called on to evaluate why funeral director  Chad Harding was allowed to maintain his license while being investigated and was found to have violated the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act and the West Virginia Preneed Funeral Contracts Act along with committing…

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Monday Morning “Snip-Its”

By Funeral Director Daily / September 18, 2017 /

Funeral Director Daily’s Monday morning round-up of death care related items we discovered over the weekend includes a wide variety of topics again this week.  We’ve got information on where to find articles on how funeral homes in Miami are coping with the loss of power after Hurricane Irma, an article that has been published…

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Some History and Investment Perspective on Service Corporation International

By Funeral Director Daily / September 15, 2017 /

I’m a buy and hold investor and enjoy learning about companies that over time will bring a nice positive return to my portfolio. I also like to learn as much as I can about companies and those in the death care industry give me added perspective — I always try to learn what they are…

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British Funeral Trends Mirror U.S. or Vice-Versa

By Funeral Director Daily / September 14, 2017 /

I recently read an article in the United Kingdom’s newspaper, The Sun, which centered on the topic of British citizens cutting back where they can on funeral expenses.  Quite frankly, as I read the article, it really reminded me of what has been, and is still, occurring in the United States as to what, I…

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Don’t Lose a Long-Time Client Family

By Funeral Director Daily / September 13, 2017 /

I just read an article by Alyssa McNab on the Homesteaders Life Company blog  where I thought that she did a very good job in delineating how a funeral home could, under certain circumstances, lose a long time client family.  Obviously, this is something no one in the funeral business wants to have happen, but…

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Lexington coming to Common Sense Solution with Confederate Statues

By Funeral Director Daily / September 12, 2017 /

The events in the last month have brought attention to the history of the Civil War, what the war stood for, and how do we pay respect to history while still giving respect to some who may have a different viewpoint. According to an article in Kentucky.com it appears that Lexington Mayor Jim Gray has…

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Monday Morning “Snip-Its”

By Funeral Director Daily / September 11, 2017 /

It’s Monday morning again and as usual we have been busy seeing what happened in the death care industry news over the weekend.  Today we have four articles that we think are very interesting ranging from stolen human remains to a deadline coming up for a California Senate vote on legalizing alkaline hydrolysis to what…

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Some History on Matthews International

By Funeral Director Daily / September 8, 2017 /

One of my adages about being in business is that you have to know who you are doing business with.  One of the truly great things about being involved with funeral services is that most of the people and companies that we relate to have a history of solid business and ethical principles to relate…

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Interesting Cemetery Issues

By Funeral Director Daily / September 7, 2017 /

For about 15 years I served on a small cemetery association board.  Most of the time things ran pretty smooth and we had, even though they were old and handwritten, very good records of sales and interments.  We did, however, have our little problems such as when we sold the same grave spaces twice.  Both…

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