Funeral Director Daily
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”]
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…
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…
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…
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…
Carriage Services, a publicly owned death care provider that according to its web-site owns and operates 178 funeral homes in 29 states and 32 cemeteries in 11 states, announced last week that they have closed a Senior Notes Offering and entered into a new Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility. You can read the company’s…
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…
