Afternoon Edition

Afternoon Edition: News you can use

By Funeral Director Daily / January 19, 2021 /

Today’s Afternoon Edition features several articles that we found interesting over the MLK holiday weekend.  We’ll leave it to you to see which interest you and your choice of reading. However, there are some interesting articles.  For instance, one article states that some funeral homes in California are actually having to turn away death calls…

Weekend Edition. . . .News you can use

By Funeral Director Daily / January 15, 2021 /

As we head into the weekend I’m clearing off my desk and have some information from some of our favorite friends at Clifton Larson Allen, Roosevelt Investments, and the National Funeral Directors Association that may be of interest to you.  In addition, I’m throwing a couple of articles out there that are not necessarily death…

News you can use: PPE procurement, CEU’s, the BRAVE act. . . and more

By Funeral Director Daily / December 14, 2020 /

In today’s Afternoon Edition of Funeral Director Daily you will find that most of our linked stories deal with funeral homes and their handling of the COVID-19 situation.  We are also taking today to catch up with some items that you should be aware of in terms of PPE procurement, a webinar brought to us…

“Get to Know Them”: Nicki Mikolai

By Funeral Director Daily / December 10, 2020 /

Today’s Funeral Director Daily “Get to Know Them” feature introduces our readers to Nicki Mikolai.  Nicki graduated from my alma mater – the University of Minnesota – and has performed an extensive array of work in the death care profession.  She is a licensed funeral director and had worked for the Minnesota Lions Eye Bank…

NFDA news you can use. . . a couple of California stories that break hearts

By Funeral Director Daily / December 7, 2020 /

This afternoon we are bringing you some news from the National Funeral Directors Association as well as a couple of stories that we uncovered about death care in California that point out the tragedy of humanity in the lives of those less fortunate than many of us. First of all, the National Funeral Directors Association…

Potential COVID surge has states thinking death care, state budget surprises

By Funeral Director Daily / December 3, 2020 /

Last week you could not turn on the news without hearing of the potential for the COVID-19 virus to spread rapidly because of Thanksgiving and other upcoming holiday travel.  We found a couple of articles pertaining to states and how they may handle the number of deceased bodies that may come with that potential surge.…

The future of Death Tech from Forbes, LGBTQ funeral home settlement, Arlington Wreaths Across America

By Funeral Director Daily / December 2, 2020 /

Only a couple of days after I gave you my thoughts on what new companies might be winners in the death care profession I stumbled across an article from Forbes entitled, “The Future of Death Tech”.  Today’s afternoon edition of Funeral Director Daily brings you that article as well as information on an apparent financial…

Service Corp to benefit military, Matthews corporate news and research, crematory opening in Maine after town vote

By Funeral Director Daily / December 1, 2020 /

Today’s Funeral Director Daily Afternoon Edition brings you some information about public companies in the news as well as a Maine community issuing the paperwork for the Midcoast Crematory to move forward to an operating mode. The article mentions that this has been accomplished “after multiple years of effort by Michael Hall of the Hall…

New national cemetery to open, Guidance on PPP loan expenses, Self-Care webinar available

By Funeral Director Daily / November 30, 2020 /

We found a lot of information over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that we thought was worthy of distribution to you.  Included in today’s message you will find information on our nation’s newest veteran’s cemetery to be dedicated today in western New York state.  The cemetery, eleven years in the making, has been designed to serve…

Heading into the weekend . . . .

By Funeral Director Daily / November 20, 2020 /

It’s Friday and we are heading into the weekend preceding the Thanksgiving holiday.  With all of the death care companies reporting earnings reports in the last couple of weeks and our coverage of those we have a few articles that we feel our readers should have access to, yet we are not able to feature…