Afternoon Edition

Don’t forget about free Continuing Education credits offered by Wilbert

By Funeral Director Daily / May 4, 2022 /

If you are like me, you might not even know where you are sitting with Continuing Education credits to keep your license current.  I need to check because I know that because of the Covid pandemic some of the CE credits required for my funeral director and insurance agent requirements were temporarily suspended because of…

News you can Use

By Funeral Director Daily / April 21, 2022 /

There is a new play out called “Cremation: The Play” and it is set to be live-streamed beginning tomorrow on Lemonade.  It will also be live-streamed on Saturday and Sunday.  Cost to watch the live-stream is $20 and includes a Q & A following the production with the producers and cast. You can see information…

Loewen movie article tops last 30 days readership

By Funeral Director Daily / April 19, 2022 /

Evidently the readers of Funeral Director Daily are enamored with the Oscars and what will be the best movie of 2023 or they are interested in the story of Canadian funeral home executive Ray Loewen and his quest in building a very large public company.  Our top rated article for the past 30 days was…

News you can Use. . . change of ownership options, upcoming webinars, timely podcasts

By Funeral Director Daily / April 14, 2022 /

Once again my desk is getting piled up. .. In today’s Afternoon Edition I’m forwarding information from our friends at Clifton, Larson, Allen on the six options for ownership succession, bringing you information on upcoming webinars, and sending forward links to Death Care podcasts dealing with advice for the younger generation of funeral home owners,…

Tidbits from my desk. . . including news you can use

By Funeral Director Daily / March 23, 2022 /

As Funeral Director Daily becomes a more popular medium read by more and more death care insiders, I also receive more and more news from funeral home and cemetery interests.  It becomes impossible, in a one-topic per day blog, to feature each and every bit of information I receive.  So, in an effort to get…

Our Top read stories of the last 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / March 21, 2022 /

As has become our custom, in an effort that our readers don’t miss the most popular stories published on Funeral Director Daily, we re-cap them in this format for you.  This month those stories include a look back in time at the Tri-State Crematory incident as well as a look right here in the present…

Legendary leaders to be honored at ICCFA

By Funeral Director Daily / March 16, 2022 /

The International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association (ICCFA) will honor death care legendary leaders Jim Price, CCFE, CCrE, and Bill Wright, CCE, with its prestigious Hall of Fame Award during the 2022 ICCFA Annual Convention & Exposition, March 22 – 25, at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Friday, March…

News you can Use

By Funeral Director Daily / March 14, 2022 /

Once again I’ve had some things pile up on my desk that I feel are important for readers to have available to them, but I just cannot fit them into feature articles.  Included in this batch of linked features are information on the NFDA’s Emerging Leaders program, NFDA podcasts, information on the Cremation Association of…

Tidbits from the Death Care universe

By Funeral Director Daily / March 1, 2022 /

Every once in a while, news piles up on my desk that I just cannot fit into a full-length Funeral Director Daily article, but I feel that it is important enough that I can at least provide readers with the information and links on how to find out more about the news.  Today is one…

More information on employment issues

By Funeral Director Daily / February 24, 2022 /

Sometimes timing is everything.  On Tuesday and Wednesday we featured articles about “Employment” in the death care industry.  We know, thru the data we receive, that they were well received and well read by our followers. It just so happens that we received more information on employment issues from our friends at J3 Tech Solutions. …