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Survive and Thrive

By Funeral Director Daily / July 13, 2018 /

Today we bring you an article from HartfordBusiness.com about a new funeral home business that just opened up in suburban Hartford, Connecticut.  The funeral home is a 5,000 square foot building in Plainville, CT and is owned and operated by a 20-year veteran funeral director Andrea Wasley, a lifelong resident of the community.  You can…

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Environmentally Friendly Death Care

By Funeral Director Daily / July 12, 2018 /

Environmentally friendly can come in different ideas and can be different for different people.  In the death care industry there is no shortage of those that want to capitalize on the growing green movement among societies.  In that regard, I found three articles published at different places from around the world that dealt with, in…

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Allnut Family Funeral Homes to replace Greeley Chapel

By Funeral Director Daily / July 11, 2018 /

Not quite a year ago we reported that funeral home consolidator Service Corporation International had acquired 13 locations in Colorado when they announced the purchase of the Allnut Funeral Homes.  We noticed a press release today that indicates how important the growing Colorado market is to the company when SCI announced that they are making…

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Dignity Memorial adds representation on Florida’s West Coast

By Funeral Director Daily / July 11, 2018 /

According to a release published in the Sarasota Business Observer, funeral professional Robert Toale and his family have joined the Dignity Memorial Network in Sarasota and Manatee Counties of Florida.  Again, according to the release, Dignity Memorial now has 2,000 funeral, cremation, and cemetery service providers in its network.  You can read the release here.…

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This is a Strange Story

By Funeral Director Daily / July 10, 2018 /

I recently read an article that came to me from WZZM 13 News in Michigan.  The story surrounds the Michigan Strategic Fund and its June 26 decision to give preliminary approval of a $26.5 million bond issue to a non-profit group called Cathedral of St. Augustine’s to purchase 28 cemeteries in Michigan.  You can read…

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The Decline of the Church. . and What it means for Death Care

By Funeral Director Daily / July 9, 2018 /

The lead article in yesterday’s Sunday Minneapolis Star Tribune was entitled, “As Churches Close, a Way of Life Fades”.  It is an excellent article on the path our nation, and by the graph I’ve put with this article, other nations are heading with church membership.  You can read the article here. Funeral Director Daily take: …

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Park Lawn makes British Columbia Purchases

By Funeral Director Daily / July 6, 2018 /

In a news release provided by Park Lawn Corporation that you can read here, the company announced on July 5, 2018, that they are purchasing the Hanson Arbor Funeral Chapels in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia.  The purchase will bring four funeral homes and a crematorium into the Park Lawn family. The release also…

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InvoCare Continues Purchase Pattern

By Funeral Director Daily / July 6, 2018 /

InvoCare, Australia’s leading national provider of funerals and cremations, announced earlier this week that it will continue to build its regional markets.  They did so in the New South Wales/Victorian border area by purchasing the Lester and Son Mortuary.  You can read a clip on the acquisition here. The purchase includes two fully equipped funeral…

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An Old Fashioned 4th of July. . . Tradition and Honor

By Funeral Director Daily / July 5, 2018 /

Yesterday was another day that makes me proud to be an American.  Angie and I have been married thirty years and over that time our celebration of the 4th of July has become a quiet, but looked forward to family and small town tradition.  We start with a picnic at my cousin’ s home then…

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By Funeral Director Daily / July 4, 2018 /
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