Funeral Director Daily
Earlier today I found this article from CNN that talks about the gun violence in Chicago and relates it to the good people at the Leak and Sons Funeral Home and how it affects their lives. Leak and Sons is operated by 81-year old Spencer Leak, Sr. and the gun violence in the city is…
A press release from A.M. Best that you can read here has revised the outlook to negative from stable for Funeral Directors Life Insurance Company of Abilene, Texas. The rating change also states that the negative outlook reflects the company’s “ERM” or enterprise risk management. The release also maintains that the company’s metrics “reflect the…
A lot happened at the end of last week in the Death Care industry and we will try to give you just a little idea of that as we catch up from over the weekend. StoneMor Partners, L.P. announced in this press release that they will be announcing a corporate transition from a Master Limited…
According to this article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune , in a ruling made public on Wednesday, a judge upheld a citation by the Minnesota Department of Health that fined a Minnesota funeral home $5000 for, among other things, storing crates of applesauce in the funeral home’s preparation room. Again, according to the newspaper, a…
According to an article from the United Kingdom’s Telegraph which you can read here, funeral director Catherine Powell encountered a family a few years ago that explicitly said all they wanted was a cremation with the ashes returned to them. Nothing more. Powell complied and the customer was very pleased. Powell remembers thinking that if…
In the thirty-five years that I spent as a working funeral director and funeral home owner I learned to truly comprehend the responsibilities that had been given to me by the families that I served and how they truly relied on my guidance to plan and carry out the memorialization wishes that they had for…
We did not see a press release on such, but we recently noticed that StoneMor Partners has began using a new logo. From our point of view it is appropriate as the company has had some rough times over the last couple of years with the stock price falling from the mid $20’s to Friday’s…
