Afternoon Edition
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…
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 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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On Saturday morning I visited my local Starbucks for my weekly “Starbuck Saturday” cup of black coffee (no sugar). It’s my day to grab the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal and catch up on “real news”. One of the front-page articles pertained to a recent comment from Secretary of Health Robert…
On the heels of this morning’s Funeral Director Daily article pertaining to a possible “expose” of the Death Care profession being readied for the big screen I came across this recent podcast in my inbox. From the “Two Guys and a Question” podcast came this topic that is titled “Funeral Service under fire: …
