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Park Lawn Corporation announced yesterday in this press release that they have acquired substantially all of the assets of the Schackelford Corporation based in Western Tennessee. The Schackelford Corporation encompasses a fifth-generation company that has served Western Tennessee for 90 years. According to the press release the acquisition includes eight stand-alone funeral homes, two stand-alone…
As I research articles for Funeral Director Daily I come across lots of local newspaper articles dealing with anniversary years of funeral homes. The vast majority are from small town newspapers and tell of the longevity of many of these family owned firms. Last week I found this article from the Herald-Dispatch of Huntington, West…
This article from the Insurance News Net informs readers that preneed insurance company National Guardian Life (NGL), based in Madison, Wisconsin, has sold its interest in Settlers Life Insurance Company to Everly Holdings, LLC. The sale consists of approximately 225,000 policies that are geographically disbursed throughout the United States. Those policies included in the agreement…
Probably the biggest value for me in blogging with Funeral Director Daily is the people I have been able to correspond with that I would have never got to know without the blog. I’ve got lots of new friends who I have never met — almost 3,000 regular readers — many who correspond with me…
I’ve been a big baseball fan since I served as Batboy of the local town team back in the 1960’s. I played the game (not real well), managed an adult team, and had my most memorable time coaching years of Little League. . .with the highlight being my 2011 12-year old team winning the Minnesota…
Last week Carriage Services was the first death care related company to report its earnings for the March thru June 2022 period. As you can see from this short article from Investors Observer, they missed the numbers in both categories – Revenues and Earnings – that the analysts had predicted for them to achieve. Here’s…
At least in my area the idea of consumers purchasing caskets either online or in person from Costco and WalMart does not seem to have caught on. I think one of the reasons why is that area funeral homes have not warmed to that idea and don’t like the competition from those large retailers. However,…
I recently read this article from author Harold Ivan Smith from Baptist News. Smith offers a unique perspective as he attended mortuary school, is a grief educator, and works as a celebrant for Forest Lawn Mortuaries in Palm Springs, California. Smith indicates in his article that cremation was probably about 1% of United States dispositions…
New York based Empathy has raised $43 million in about the past six months. This article tells of their most recent raise of $30 million in Series A funding coming quickly on the heels of a $13 million seed round about six months ago. According to the article, “The U.S. end-of-life industry is projected to…
In the early days of the pandemic I was called by a reporter at the Business newspaper, Barron’s, for my opinion on, among other things, what was being termed the “pull-forward” effect of pandemic deaths. The theory at that time was that it appeared that most of those dying from Covid deaths were elderly and…
