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InvoCare adds two heritage funeral homes in New Zealand

By Funeral Director Daily / June 15, 2018 /

InvoCare Limited, the market leading funeral home firm in Australia, announced Friday that it will be closing on two acquisitions from the South Island of New Zealand on June 22.  You can read a clip about this from Motley Fool Australia here. The company will acquire Hope and Sons Funeral Directors in Dunedin and  Whitestone…

The Staffing Dilemma

By Funeral Director Daily / June 15, 2018 /

There is no doubt that staffing at funeral homes across North America is an issue and up for much debate on how it is done.  I recently ran into an article from Great Britain that was published in Wales Online, and which you can read here. The article is very interesting and concerns the company…

The Importance of Knowing

By Funeral Director Daily / June 14, 2018 /

I recently read a printed article from Milwaukee Public Radio that you can read here.  The article deals with the defunct Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery that operated from 1882 until 1974.  According to the article the cemetery served as the final resting place for many of the county’s poor, as well as those who…

Checking in on the Death Care Index

By Funeral Director Daily / June 13, 2018 /

Part of what we try to do at Funeral Director Daily is to keep you updated on all things funeral service.  One of the ways we do that is by watching what is happening with the publicly held death care community stocks.  Here are the stocks that we check up on regularly and compute the…

Gerlach on Carriage Services

By Funeral Director Daily / June 12, 2018 /

We found a short opinion on the stock ownership values of Carriage Services today by Douglas Gerlach and published on Moneyshow.com.  We present you the article here with no opinion on our part. [wpforms id=”436″ title=”true” description=”true”]

The Colorado Conundrum

By Funeral Director Daily / June 12, 2018 /

There is sometimes a reckoning point when an issue in an industry becomes so clear that everybody recognizes it and a high profile newspaper investigates it to make the public aware.  That happened this weekend when the Denver Post published this article on what has been going on in Colorado in the last year. We…

Can a Celebrant on Staff Increase Revenue

By Funeral Director Daily / June 11, 2018 /

Over the weekend I read a couple of articles on different subjects that brought me to the question, “Can a funeral/memorial celebrant on staff increase revenues?”  You might be wondering how I got to that question or even why I might ask it.  Let me explain. I first came across an article on church attendance…

Service Corporation adds Board Members

By Funeral Director Daily / June 8, 2018 /

Last week Houston based funeral home conglomerate Service Corporation International (SCI) added two new members to its board of directors.  A press release from SCI that you can read here announces the appointments of Jakki L. Haussler and Sara Martinez Tucker as the new members. According to the release, SCI CEO Tom Ryan stated that…

President Signs Bill for Expansion of Black Hills National Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / June 7, 2018 /

According to this article from the Black Hills Pioneer, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced last week that President Trump had signed the bill to expand the Black Hills National Cemetery.  The cemetery, located on the western edge of South Dakota, would be expanded from 105 acres to over 300 acres. South Dakota…

Robert Kennedy, D-Day, and Growing up a Funeral Director’s Kid

By Funeral Director Daily / June 6, 2018 /

My alarm goes off not with a buzz but with a local radio station coming on.  Yesterday (June 5) I awoke to the news that it was the 50th anniversary of former Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination.  It brought back memories to me of a 10-year old kid on the motorhome trip of a lifetime…