Funeral Director Daily

Ohio Funeral Home Adds Space

By Funeral Director Daily / January 18, 2018 /

In a recent article from the News Herald that you can find here, a  Cleveland, Ohio based funeral home is more than doubling its square footage of service area in an addition valued at over $1.2 million.  The Gattozzi and Son Funeral Home in Chester Township  is adding the space to keep pace with the…

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Lack of Professionalism Prompts Complaint and Investigation

By Funeral Director Daily / January 17, 2018 /

According to an article and news video that you can see here from CBSlocal 2 in California, a home removal has led to a complaint against the Trident Society in Rancho Mirage, California. The article tells of the death of Karol Spohn at her home on November 12.  Ms. Spohn had pre-arranged and paid over…

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The Growing Anatomical Bequest Movement

By Funeral Director Daily / January 16, 2018 /

Not so many years ago major medical schools were the only ones who used donated cadavers in the classroom labs.  I can remember helping some very socially conscious folks in getting their bodies accepted, prior to death, at the University of Minnesota Medical School and at the University of North Dakota Medical School.  The schools…

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Analyst Says “Get in on Baby Boom Market with SCI Stock”

By Funeral Director Daily / January 15, 2018 /

I read an article published on Friday by Samuel Leathers and featured on the site, Seeking Alpha.  The crux of the article, which you can read here,  is the author’s opinion that a better way to play the “Graying of America” demographic in the stock market than senior housing and the nursing home industry is…

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South Dakota Legislators to Carry Bill for State Veteran Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / January 12, 2018 /

For years veterans and their families who live on the east end of South Dakota have complained that there is no national veteran’s cemetery in proximity to them where they could consider burying their loved ones.  The only South Dakota national veteran’s cemeteries are in Sturgis and Hot Springs on the far west end of…

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Build Your Business with Service

By Funeral Director Daily / January 11, 2018 /

Since the 1st of the year we have been busy telling you what happened with the public companies, where we think the public companies are going, what we think will happen in the industry in 2018, reminiscing about an old lawsuit in the industry, and giving some advice on getting positive public relations for your…

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Michigan Body Broker Trial Begins

By Funeral Director Daily / January 10, 2018 /

Last week a jury was seated and opening statements were begun in the criminal trial of Arthur Rathburn, age 64, of Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan.  Rathburn is accused of fraudulently misrepresenting his unusual product, that of parts of bodies that had been donated for research.  According to an article on the case that you can…

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Great Western Insurance Company to be Acquired

By Funeral Director Daily / January 9, 2018 /

In an article from the Think Advisor which you can read here it was reported that Ogden, Utah based pre-need life insurer Great Western Life Insurance is going to be acquired by American Republic Insurance of Des Moines, Iowa. Great Western is a privately held life insurance company, specializing in Pre-Need funeral insurance started by…

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The Loewen Case Revisited – Part 2

By Funeral Director Daily / January 8, 2018 /

When I left off on Friday the now over 20 year old case of Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Homes v. The Loewen Group was our topic.  As I told you, it was an incredibly interesting drama unfolding in a Mississippi courtroom – all over the aggressive expansion plans and tactics of a Canadian based funeral home consolidator.…

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Flashback to the Loewen Case

By Funeral Director Daily / January 5, 2018 /

Over the New Year’s Holiday I noticed a small blip in a Mississippi newspaper, the Sun Herald, which announced the fact that Jeffrey O’Keefe, Jr. of Gulfport has been named President of Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Homes. It goes on to say, as you can read here, that Mr. O’Keefe is a sixth generation family member in…

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