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A few days ago I came across this article from Great Britain’s newspaper, The Telegraph. The headline was intriguing to a person like me who worked in Death Care, so I continued to read the article. Turns out that the article was an obituary news article of sorts dealing with the life and…
Matthews International, parent company of Matthews Aurora Caskets, Matthews Cemetery Products, and Matthews Environmental Solutions (cremation products) announced yesterday that they will be increasing the dividend that they pay on common shares of their stock by $0.01 per quarter. That will increase the dividend to $0.25 per share per quarter or $1.00 per…
In October Choice Mutual, an end-of-life burial insurance company released the results of a nationwide survey of over 3,000 individuals that, among other things, asked where in their home state would they want their cremated ashes to be dispersed or scattered. According to one article I read, the impetus for this survey…
Funeral Director Daily published an article on Security National Financial Corporation’s 3rd Quarter 2024 results on Monday using the company’s November 14, 2024, Form 10-Q as our guidance as no press release had been issued from SNFC at that time. Later on November 18, a press release on the earnings from SNFC…
We learned last week from this National Funeral Director Association (NFDA) press release that Lesley Vitter, NFDA’s Senior Vice-President of Advocacy, testified on November 13 at a Congressional House Committee hearing that concerned reviewing “Our Nation’s Hallowed Grounds”. According to the press release “The hearing focused on assessing and improving the Department…
It’s the middle of the month and time to re-cap the Most Read Stories of the past 30 days on Funeral Director Daily. Funeral Director Daily tries to publish a variety of information, news, and opinions with a wide variety of Death Care interests. It looks like we succeeded in the past 30…
I was excited on Friday morning when I received some information from a reader of Funeral Director Daily. You see, I started Funeral Director Daily a few years ago with the idea that it could be a network for those working in the death care profession to be able to access thoughts, ideas, and…
It’s coming up on the 3rd Tuesday of the month and that signals that all funeral professionals can log in to learn and participate in the Zoom facilitated Cremation Association of North America’s (CANA) Peer Support event. I find that tomorrow night’s event happens in a timely fashion as it preceeds the…
Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC) filed their 3rd Quarter 2024 Form 10-Q last Thursday and with that filing we got a look at the company’s financial results for the 3rd Quarter of 2024. In that report we noticed that the Revenue for the company’s Mortuary and Cemetery division dropped by 5.8% as compared…
I don’t know if this ever happens to you, but every so often I seem to get hit from all sides with a certain subject matter. It’s usually something that I have not thought of for awhile but then, all of a sudden, seem to have the subject come up over and over…
