Funeral Director Daily
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.…
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: …
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…
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…
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…
Over the weekend the Charleston (SC) Post and Courier ran an in-depth story about the death care business in South Carolina questioning the ethics, inspection department, and peer oversight of our industry in that state. You can read the story here. What prompted the story and investigation into the death care industry was the story…
Last week cemetery and funeral home consolidator StoneMor Partners issued press releases regarding their company. In essence the releases shared the following information: Release of Preliminary Unaudited 2017 Full Year Financials The appointment of a new CEO for the company, Mr. Joe Redling The establishment of a committee to look into the possibility of changing…
