Funeral Director Daily
Not so many years ago the role of the funeral director or mortician in a community was to prepare the deceased for burial and coordinate all services between the family that was requesting services and the church body that was delivering those services. . . .which most of the time consisted of a…
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Last week I had not even finished putting up Friday’s article which dealt with an acquisition when I was notified of another public company acquisition. This time the announcement came from Carriage Services and announced its acquisition of a group of three funeral homes, two cemeteries, and a cremation center based in the…
Read MoreHave you noticed in the March Madness basketball games how every male coach is wearing a logo quarter-zip pullover, casual trousers, and athletic style shoes? The days of college basketball coaches wearing a suit and tie seem to be over. . . . no longer will we get to see an irate coach…
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Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) whose website now states, “is the fastest growing company in the industry in North America”, announced last week that they have moved into the states of Iowa and Nebraska with the acquisition of Meyer Brothers Funeral Homes. Meyer Brothers Funeral Homes has, among their five locations, locations in…
Read MoreI’ve thought about this many times over the years, but the older I get the more I believe it is true. That is that there is probably no one in your local community that knows the community better than the local funeral director. It hit me yesterday as I was at the…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Today Welton Hong, CEO and founder of RingRing Marketing takes over the pen and gives us some valuable advice on Deathcare marketing. His article begins right here: When was the last time you studied a map, planning out your route for a vacation or a trip to the ICCFA Convention?…
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Empathy is a great skill as you go forward in life. It’s one of the characteristics of highly emotionally intelligent people according to this article. One of the things that made me an effective funeral director, at least in my opinion, was the empathy I was able to relate as…
Read MoreThis article that was first published in the Los Angeles Times begins “It was standing-room only in the cavernous Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, where the funeral Mass for Bishop David G. O’Connell was held Friday morning. And it seemed every one of the 3,000 mourners in attendance had a…
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As of Friday, March 17 we scoured our sources for any news on if the takeover of leading Australian death care provider InvoCare by United States based private equity firm TPG Capital was moving forward. It’s hard to say what is happening as it appears to look more and more like a “hostile”…
Read MoreThe last ten days or so most of America, and the rest of the civilized world, has wondered about the safety of the banking industry. As this is being written on Friday, March 17, we’ve already seen American banks Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank closed by regulators and have seen some…
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