Afternoon Edition
Today’s feature in our popular “Get to Know Them” edition is centered on Peter J. Rose, CFSP, LFD, and General Manager of the Betz, Rossi, Bellinger and Stewart Family Funeral Homes in Amsterdam, New York. While the “Get to Know Them” feature is centered around getting to know the profession and what differing duties and…
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Smith Family Funeral Homes of North Little Rock, Arkansas announced last week that they have acquired American Home Life Insurance Company, also of North Little Rock. Interestingly enough, American Home Life Insurance Company was founded by the grandfather of Smith Family Funeral Homes current President Jeff Smith. Smith was quoted in this article from Arkansas…
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As you know we have been dedicating the Thursday Afternoon Edition to our new feature, “Get to Know Them”. This feature tries to bring forth the many facets of the death care profession and differing occupations within such. I’ve learned that not all of our readers are funeral home owners or funeral home directors and…
Read MoreIn today’s Afternoon Edition of Funeral Director Daily we bring you some interesting articles. Included among them is an article aimed at consumers that takes note on 10 misconceptions about cremation. We also have an article where politicians are wondering what they can do with a cemetery that is located in an area that they…
Read MoreIn today’s Afternoon Edition we bring you opportunities to continue to learn with a webinar from Disrupt Media and the Cremation Association of North America (CANA), a new podcast from the National Funeral Directors Association, and a useful article from Clifton Larson Allen on planning an exit from your business. We also have a couple…
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The “Get to Know Them” feature of Funeral Director Daily is meant to get our readers to know of others in the death care profession. . . many whom read our publication loyally. In learning who some of our readers are, I’ve been fascinated by all of the differing positions our industry comes in contact…
Read MoreThere is no doubt that one of the costs that funeral homes have encountered in the past six months of the COVID world we find ourselves living in is cleaning and disinfecting the funeral home real estate. We’ve been told that sometimes it is even hard to find a commercial service that has an opening…
Read MoreIn today’s Afternoon Edition of Funeral Director Daily we bring you a “hodgepodge” of news stories. I’m not so sure that I know what “hodgepodge” means, but I’ve heard it used in situations where nothing seems to be relevant to anything else. . . . And, that is kind of how our death care news…
Read MoreAmong the articles that we feature in today’s Afternoon Edition is a press release from the Unum Company. Unum, an insurance company, says in this release that the coronavirus pandemic has changed insurance needs of families. The results of their survey indicated that 41% of Americans say that the pandemic has changed the way that…
Read MoreAs we head into the weekend we will leave you with a couple of different ways that a cemetery and a funeral home honored the veterans that they feel privileged to serve. In Pennsylvania the cemetery at Belleman’s Church was the scene of last Sunday’s Allegiance Sunday ceremony. Allegiance Sunday signifies the day in 1778…
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