Funeral Director Daily
The Associated Press reported that former NFL Pro bowl player Richie Incognito was arrested on charges he threatened to shoot employees of a funeral home earlier this week. You can read the article here. According to the article, Incognito was at the Messinger Pinnacle Peak Mortuary in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Monday to make arrangements for…
Read MoreI just saw an article that you can read here about a donation by Mid-America Transplant Foundation to the University of Southern Illinois department of Mortuary Science and Funeral Service embalming lab. The $98,000 donation brings to a total of $134,400 that the foundation has contributed to the school in support of the Mortuary Science…
Read MoreWe have an update on First Family Funeral Home of Spartanburg, South Carolina. If you remember, we have followed the case of that funeral home since it was discovered that they held a body of a deceased woman for almost three years after the family had believed that the body had been cremated. According to…
Read MoreIn the last couple of days I have read articles from different areas of the United States pertaining to the establishment of “Green Cemeteries” in those locales. The first you can read here and comes from the southern portion of Illinois and concerns the City of Carbondale turning a city cemetery over to the option…
Read MoreAustralian funeral service market share leader, InvoCare, is moving forward with capital expenses aimed at becoming more appealing to Baby Boomers in spite of several headwinds on funeral service down under. You can read an article from Australian Financial Review on the slowing of InvoCare’s business here. In the article InvoCare CEO, Martin Earp, mentions…
Read MoreWe’ve kept you up to date on the happenings with the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, Colorado and its owner Megan Hess since last winter when the company was alleged to have sold body parts without permission from bodies entrusted to it for funeral or memorial services. According to an article you can read…
Read MorePanhandle.com reports on an update of what is happening with the Panama City, Florida case of 2016 which resulted in the closure of the Brock’s Hometown Funeral Home in that city. The update includes legal action that has taken place against the owners and reports on a scheduled jury trial scheduled for October 1, 2018,…
Read MoreCanadian public company Park Lawn Corporation announced their 2nd quarter financial results this week. You can see the company’s press release here. According to the company, “The results show solid operating performance across the majority of the business, particularly in the CMS Mid-Atlantic and Saber business segments of the company. Here are some of the…
Read MoreAs we come to the end of the earnings reporting period for the public death care companies we give you the quarterly report for Security National Financial Corporation. Security National is the Utah based public company that operates in three segments — insurance, cemeteries and funerals, and mortgages. Funeral Director Daily is most focused on…
Read More
