Funeral Director Daily

Does Pure Cremation Have it Right?

By Funeral Director Daily / September 27, 2018 /

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…

Damages awarded in Tennessee cemetery trial

By Funeral Director Daily / September 26, 2018 /

A jury reached an agreement in the amount of damages to be awarded to families in the Galilee Cemetery trial in Memphis yesterday.  You can read an article on the awards here. While the award amount amount per body is listed, we don’t know the final numbers as we have never been told, at least…

Precautions alleviate casket issues during Hurricane Florence

By Funeral Director Daily / September 26, 2018 /

When Hurricane Matthew overflowed the Neuse River near Goldsboro, North Carolina in 2016 almost 40 caskets floated from their grave sites and into the rushing and rising water.  That caused city administrators the problem of eventually returning the caskets to their rightful grave spaces.  As of last week 16 of those caskets that were disturbed…

Jury In in Memphis Cemetery Trial

By Funeral Director Daily / September 25, 2018 /

A verdict that will give relief to funeral directors all across the United States was handed down in the case of the Galilee Memorial Gardens case yesterday.  For the last month we have kept you up to date on this case which stems from alleged neglect of deceased casketed human remains brought to the Galilee…

Families gather to discuss Sunset Mesa Experiences

By Funeral Director Daily / September 25, 2018 /

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…

A new image at StoneMor

By Funeral Director Daily / September 24, 2018 /

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…

Texas town approves Muslim Cemetery Plan

By Funeral Director Daily / September 24, 2018 /

Periodically we have kept you up to date on what was happening with the planned Muslim cemetery that was proposed to be built about 40 miles northeast of Dallas, Texas.  As you can read in this article here, on Thursday the Town Council of Farmersville, Texas approved plans submitted by the Islamic Association of Collin…

The Growing Trend of Abandoned Cemeteries

By Funeral Director Daily / September 21, 2018 /

One of the things I believe that we do pretty well at Funeral Director Daily is monitor the Death Care industry for trends that are emerging and we can provide some warning on what issues may be sneaking up on funeral directors and cemeterians. Since we started slightly over a year ago we have noticed…

Acquisition News — Foundation Partners/InvoCare

By Funeral Director Daily / September 21, 2018 /

Foundation Partners, based in Orlando, Florida recently announced that they had made an acquisition to their family of brands.  They announced that they had acquired Legacy Funeral & Cremation Care in San Diego County, California.  You can read a press release here. The purchase from the Savino family represents an opening into the San Diego…

Signs of the Time

By Funeral Director Daily / September 20, 2018 /

Earlier today we released an article, “Is Now the Time”.  It dealt with the growing cost of waiting on projects that you might be planning for your funeral home or cemetery. Since that article came out we have noticed two articles that were recently published that somewhat dealt with trends in the death care industry…