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God Bless our Troops – Yesterday and Today

By Funeral Director Daily / May 29, 2017 /

If you are anything like me today will cause goose-bumps on your arms as you witness a Memorial Day Parade in person or some type of celebration on television to honor those who have served our country. I never was fortunate to serve and as I get older I regret it more and more. The…

A Future For Urban Cemeteries?

By Funeral Director Daily / May 26, 2017 /

Today, I read an article in the Seattle Times about Seattle’s Denny Park. The article talks a little about the history of Denny Park and goes on to mention what it has been transformed into today in the other-wise dense South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle. The park has been transformed by over $2 million…

Circling the Wagons for Better Service

By Funeral Director Daily / May 25, 2017 /

The Beck family has served the Liberty Hill, Texas area for more than three decades. The Beck family also operates funeral chapels in Cedar Park and Round Rock, Texas, and loves to provide personal service to those they serve. The funeral homes are operated by family members, Blake Henderson and Jan Beck Cleveland. According to…

Here We Go Again

By Funeral Director Daily / May 24, 2017 /

As we move up on Memorial Day next Monday and want to honor those who have went before us, it seems that there is always something in our industry that casts a pall over the business of funeral directors and cemeterians. I discovered a recent article in the Record-Courier of Ravenna, Kent and Portage Counties…

DCI Value Slightly Down, Yield Up

By Funeral Director Daily / May 23, 2017 /

We last visited the Death Care Index (DCI) following the March 3, 2017 market close. At that time the value of one share of each of the six death care industry stocks that make up the index totaled together would have equaled $269.84 with an annual dividend of $5.66 for a 2.06% yield. As of…

Ithaca Cemetery Raises Vault Maintenance Question

By Funeral Director Daily / May 22, 2017 /

I ran across an interesting article in the Cornell Daily Sun the other day which led me to ponder several questions about the long term maintenance of vaults, columbariums, and mausoleums in cemeteries. The article is very interesting and, quite frankly, tells of the city of Ithaca’s quest to understand what must be done to…

StoneMor Names New CEO and CFO

By Funeral Director Daily / May 19, 2017 /

On Wednesday, May 17, StoneMor Partners took some steps to reverse the fortunes of their company when they named a new CEO and a new CFO to replace departed CFO Sean McGrath and CEO Lawrence Miller. StoneMor has been plagued for over the last year with quarterly losses, decreased cash flows, and a cut of…

Funeral Home Bankruptcy in New York

By Funeral Director Daily / May 18, 2017 /

I just read an article on something you don’t see very often in the funeral industry. An article that was posted in the Times Herald Recordonline from Orange County, New York, pertained to the bankruptcy case, and hopeful solution to it, of a funeral business from that area. The article is about Mr. Anthony Ingrassia…

City Cemetery Decision irks Monument Businesses

By Funeral Director Daily / May 16, 2017 /

A recent decision by the City of Beloit, Wisconsin, to offer more cremation options at city cemeteries is causing angst among some Beloit area businesses according to the Beloit Daily News. In essence the city is allowing their owned and operated cemeteries to offer a pricing structure that will allow for consumers to have an…

Student Designed Funeral Portal to Go Live this Summer

By Funeral Director Daily / May 15, 2017 /

Holly Price, a recent University of Michigan MBA graduate learned a lot a while back when her mother was suffering from a cardiac arrest and funeral arrangements, and other life-ending decisions, looked like they had to be made. According to a Press Release from the University of Michigan, Price used the experience – fortunately her…

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