Funeral Director Daily
Funeral Director Daily learned earlier in December that Carriage Services was ranked among the Best Small Business Companies in America for 2024. In a press release that you can read here, it was announced that Forbes recognized Carriage Services as its #33 company on its list of “Most Successful Small Companies” for 2024. …
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Back in early June of this year (2024) many of us were surprised by this announcement that public funeral home and cemetery operator Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) had agreed to be acquired and taken private by a group known as Veridian Holdings. Probably most consequential in that announcement was that one of the partners…
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Like many I learned of the death of Minnesota funeral home owner and operator William L. McReavy, Sr. on Christmas Day. Here is Legacy.com’s announcement of that event. The Washburn-McReavy brand goes back to the year 1857 in Minnesota which happens to be one year before Minnesota became a state. Like many generational…
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Prior to Christmas this past month I listened to my pastor preach on “Loneliness”, and loneliness specifically as it relates to the Holiday Season. You see, she pointed out, that while many of us are excited to see family and friends during the Holiday Season, there are a whole lot of people who become…
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For the past 20 years or so since the advent of online news by the legacy television news broadcasters there has been a “blurring of the lines” between news and advertising. I happened to run across this apparent “ad-vertorial” for national online direct cremation company Tulip Cremation the other day and just wanted to…
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This short article will be going out on the morning of Christmas Eve and in preparing it I think of a Christmas Eve that always comes to mind for me in correlation to working in the funeral business. It was probably in the 1990’s, I was probably in my late 30’s age-wise, and…
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Parting Stone, the creator of solidified remains for cremation memorialization, has had created an AI generated desktop calendar for funeral homes. Here’s what their recent press release says of the calendar: “Parting Stone, the innovators behind solidified remains, is proud to announce the release of their 2025 “Death Rocks! Calendar,” an AI-generated page-a-day…
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Next week is Chrsitmas. . . . . And, almost everybody has their own traditions on how they spend time with their family or their community. But what about your funeral home? What are the traditions that they follow? Having looked-forward to annual traditions is not only a way to celebrate with…
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We learned last week that a Auburndale, Florida, resident and funeral director had been honored as American Funeral Director’s “Funeral Director of the Year”. In a press release from her employers at Foundation Partners Group it was explained that Jennifer Lindell-Roys, a funeral director at the Kersey Funeral Home had been so honored.…
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The National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) issued their monthly “Optimism Index” last week and it showed the highest degree of “optimism” among small businesses in America since 2021. That’s great but, there are also conflicting reports that came out that share a degree of caution among businesses. For instance, this article from…
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