Funeral Director Daily
So, one of the great things of growing older and living for six decades is that you gain perspective. I started to think of that over the weekend when I both celebrated an anniversary and learned of the news of Sen. John McCain’s death and the funeral arrangements for singer Aretha Franklin. Angie and I…
Earlier this week public funeral home consolidator and operating company Carriage Services announced the acquisition of the Presley Funeral Home in Cookeville, Tennessee. You can see the company press release here. According to the release, Presley Funeral Home owner Bryant Presley will continue employment as the Managing Partner of the firm. Presley said, “My family…
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…
I 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…
We 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…
In 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…
Australian 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…
We’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…
Panhandle.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,…
