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Janssen Closing in on Iditarod Finish

By Funeral Director Daily / March 16, 2018 /

Anchorage funeral home owner Scott Janssen is within 77 miles of the Nome, Alaska, finishing line as of this morning (Friday) when he left the White Mountain check-point in the grueling Anchorage to Nome Iditarod Sled Dog race.  Janssen checked into White Mountain last night at 5:30 pm took the obligatory 8-hour rest and headed…

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Dignity, PLC Engages Consultant

By Funeral Director Daily / March 16, 2018 /

Dignity, PLC, the United Kingdom’s death care conglomerate announced on March 14 that they would be hiring L.E.K. Consulting to work them them in developing a plan for the funeral business going forward.  This comes following their January 19 announcement that the company would be drastically reducing their funeral service prices to consumers in response…

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Mushin’ Mortician Still on the Trail at Iditarod

By Funeral Director Daily / March 15, 2018 /

While Norwegian musher Joar Leifseth Ulsom pulled into Nome a little after 3:00 am on Wednesday morning to be crowned the Champion of the 46th running of the Iditarod dog sled race, Anchorage mortician, Scott Janssen, remains on the trail in his 8th attempt at arguably one of the world’s most grueling events for man…

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Do You Know Who Your Employees Are?

By Funeral Director Daily / March 15, 2018 /

I came across a couple of news articles in the last couple of days that knock home the fact that you have to know who you are hiring when you hire somebody to work at your facility.  What are your hiring practices??  With the shortage of licensed help, do you hire the first licensee that…

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South Dakota Approves Veterans Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / March 14, 2018 /

Last week the South Dakota legislature approved a plan to build a State Veterans Cemetery in Sioux Falls.  The Senate voted last week to direct the state to submit a grant application to the National Cemetery Administration and build the project. You can read about the project here. The bill also calls for an endowment…

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Mistake Leads Nova Scotia to tighten Funeral Rules

By Funeral Director Daily / March 14, 2018 /

  The Nova Scotia Board of Registration of Embalmers and Funeral Directors issued a report last week calling for their legislature to “ensure that there is a system in place” for the handling of human remains.  The report was prompted by a mix-up at a Nova Scotia funeral home on December 27, 2017, that was…

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Landslide Causing Problems at SCI Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / March 13, 2018 /

According to an article in the West Virginia Herald-Dispatch that you can read here, excessive rainfall has caused problems at the Woodmere Cemetery in Huntington, WV.  The cemetery is owned by Service Corporation International. The problem manifested itself about three weeks ago when excessive rainfall washed the back side of the cemetery onto Norway Avenue. …

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Newcomer Funeral Service Group purchases Dayton Property

By Funeral Director Daily / March 13, 2018 /

A sale was recorded last Monday in the Dayton, Ohio area pertaining to the purchase of land at 820 Miamisburg-Centerville Road according to property records reported by the Dayton Daily News.  The property, with seven acres of land, was owned by Schlientz-Moore Funeral Home and purchased by Warren Family Funeral Homes, Inc. According to the…

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Monday Round-Up

By Funeral Director Daily / March 12, 2018 /

Funeral Director Daily found a lot of news over the weekend on the death care industry.  Instead of trying to pick a great article for our readers we thought that today we would just throw you the headlines of some interesting articles and let you you click to any you might be interested in reading…

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Mortuary School Issue may cause Invalidated Licenses

By Funeral Director Daily / March 12, 2018 /

The New York Post reported over the weekend in an article that you can read here that the State Bureau of Funeral Directing has notified 94 New York morticians that they will lose their licenses if they don’t re-take their exam by June 30 or apply for an extension to December 31.  In addition, according…

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