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Here’s a webinar designed to help cemeteries unlock a new revenue stream

By Funeral Director Daily / September 10, 2026 /

  I’ve said many times in the past few months that the evolving American economy provides great opportunities for cemeteries.  I was recently notified that our friends at Letum Financial are helping to sponsor a free webinar to show cemeteries one way to unlock new revenue.   Here’s what an electronic brochure says of this…

The divided economy, and what firms may do to combat it, leads our Top Stories of the Month

By Funeral Director Daily / September 8, 2026 /

  If you follow the financial markets you will notice a lot being said about the widening gap of consumer spending ability.  It’s interesting to note that our most read story of the month also fell along that line with an article about how it appears that Everstory Partners has some ideas on how to…

From 6th Generation to Artificial Intelligence

By Funeral Director Daily / August 6, 2026 /

  Fort Worth, Texas, funeral director Jimmie Lucas is the 6th generation of his family to serve grieving families.  The family funeral home was established in 1860 and has seen all kinds of changes in that 166 years of operation.   What they had not seen until recently, however, was the assistance of Artificial Intelligence…

Private Equity, Business issues again top our “Most Read” articles

By Funeral Director Daily / August 3, 2026 /

    Funeral Director Daily is once again back to publishing our “Top Read” articles of the month.  We’ve done without this feature for a couple of months because our data collection system had changed and we were without a way to total up our actual numbers for individual articles.  I am happy to mention…

Funeral Director Daily’s Tom Anderson appears on “The Graveyard Shift” podcast

By Funeral Director Daily / May 18, 2026 /

    Funeral Director Daily editor Tom Anderson appeared on the Passare sponsored podcast, The Graveyard Shift, in an episode that dropped last week.   The episode titled “Hamburgers, blog writing, and Tom Anderson” covers a myriad of Death Care issues and is hosted by Todd Carlson with co-hosts Gary Freytag, Jimmy Lucas, and Matt…

A small town mortician’s story

By Funeral Director Daily / May 15, 2026 /

  Yesterday  Funeral Director Daily posted an article about a small community in Idaho coming together to figure out how to finance the operations of its community cemetery.  In the post, I mentioned that I grew up in a small town and continue to hold many of the Death Care values that my forefathers held.…

Park Lawn Corporation update: Dodds also reported to be leaving

By Funeral Director Daily / April 15, 2026 /

    In their morning edition Connecting Directors reported receiving a confirmation from Park Lawn Corporation that confirmed not only CEO Jennifer Hay and COO Mat Forastiere are leaving the company but that Jay Dodds would also be leaving.  According to Connecting Directors, here is the statement from Park Lawn Corporation:   “Park Lawn Corporation…

Funeral Women Lead to gather “Pulse Survey”

By Funeral Director Daily / April 14, 2026 /

    It’s no secret that women are entering the funeral service profession in high numbers.  Only a year ago a new organization, Funeral Women Lead, was founded that acknolwedged that fact and set out to make sure that women have support and advancement opportunities in Death Care.   In pursuit of those goals Funeral…

American Cemetery Live: A new show for cemetery professionals

By Funeral Director Daily / March 23, 2026 /

  Kates-Boylston, a leading media and events company serving funeral service professionals, recently announced a new podcast show geared for those that work in the “cemetery profession”.  Titled “American Cemetery Live”, the company says they will be producing a “a monthly show for cemetery people by cemetery people”.   The press release about the new…

No Pot of Gold, but they will be talking about these stories tomorrow

By Funeral Director Daily / March 16, 2026 /

    We’ve reached the 15th of the month – actually the 16th of the month today, and with that comes our monthly listing of the Top 5 Most Read articles of the past 30 days on Funeral Director Daily.  And, this month the articles are being presented only one day before St. Patrick’s Day…