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Honor Guard’s Car Stolen at Fort Logan Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / June 4, 2018 /

We pass on this article from The Denver Channel simply to point out that these things can happen – even at a funeral.  According to the article a member of the Fort Logan Honor Guard who doubles as a pastor was conducting services at the Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver.  When he went back…

Here is How a Community Can Make a Difference

By Funeral Director Daily / June 4, 2018 /

People in the city of Janesville, Wisconsin came together Saturday to celebrate the re-opening of the Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel.  You can read and see some photos of the project from this article in the Janesville Gazette Extra. What is extraordinary to me about this effort is that the cemetery fit the pattern of what…

Remains left at Vietnam Vets Wall to be Buried with Honors

By Funeral Director Daily / June 1, 2018 /

I came across an article today in the Minneapolis StarTribune that carried a Washington Post byline.  You can read the article here and it pertains to an agreement that was reached between the National Park Service and the Missing in America Project.  The Missing in America Project says that their purpose is to identify and…

Utah Becomes 14th State to Approve Alkaline Hydrolysis

By Funeral Director Daily / May 31, 2018 /

A recent article from The Universe, a Brigham Young University publication, which you can read here starts off with the following quote, “The baby boomers have changed every industry in their lives, so they’ll change this one as well.”  That was said by Utah funeral director and founder of the Nelson Family Mortuary Lance Nelson.…

Is Funeral Service an “Unappealing” Industry?

By Funeral Director Daily / May 30, 2018 /

I’ve always been intrigued by the stock market.  I can remember over 50 years ago talking to my dad about what he thought was the end-all when looking at companies to potentially invest in.  For him it was the P/E ratio.  Dad always wanted the stock to have a P/E ratio of 15 or less…

What’s Your Protocol?

By Funeral Director Daily / May 29, 2018 /

When I first started making funeral arrangements it was in the day of over 90% earth burials in my community.  I remember many times when making the removal of the deceased at the nursing home, hospital, or private residence that the next of kin would say to me, “When do we come in to pick…

Memorial Day 2018

By Funeral Director Daily / May 28, 2018 /

Memorial Day 2018.  God Bless America!!  Today’s Funeral Director Daily column consists of a re-print of three different articles we have done within the past year.  The first article deals with the 3rd Infantry Regiment – known as the Old Guard – who annually place flags at all veteran graves at Arlington National Cemetery. The…

Pearl Harbor Memorial Closed Indefinitely

By Funeral Director Daily / May 27, 2018 /

We recently learned just in time for Memorial Day that the memorial at Pearl Harbor that commemorates and recognizes the U.S.S. Arizona and its place in the 1941 surprise attack will be closed indefinitely.  Apparently, from the article that you can read here, some cracks in the floor of the memorial or the entry that…

Fire Department called to crematory in suburban San Diego

By Funeral Director Daily / May 25, 2018 /

On Thursday, May 24, a suburban San Diego fire department was called to a crematory.  Evidently, according to Fox 5 of San Diego, a crematory door was ajar and led to billowing smoke from the chimney and out the buildings doors.  Again, according to Fox 5, the fire suppression system also kicked into gear leading…

New York Veteran’s Cemetery ponders cremation as Revenue Source

By Funeral Director Daily / May 25, 2018 /

The Seneca County Board of Supervisors recently heard a proposal from Sampson Veterans Memorial Cemetery general manager William Yale about the possibility of adding a crematory to increase revenue to the cemetery in the future.  You can read about this proposal in the article here from the Olean Times Herald. According to the article this…