Funeral Director Daily
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…
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.…
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…
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. 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…
