Afternoon Edition
There 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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Today’s “Get to Know Them” article features Bob Heidlage of Global Recruiters of Cincinnati.. I know Bob only from his kind comments that he passed on to me about his daily reading of Funeral Director Daily. From those comments I wanted to know more about him and his link to the death care profession. From…
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Today we start a new feature with Funeral Director Daily. This feature is entitled, “Funeral Home of the Week”, and is just what it says it is — each week we will present one funeral home in an interview process for others to learn about. It is our hope, as we feature all sizes of…
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It’s not everyday when someone opens a business and then says they are going to build that business by donating the business’ services. However, that is exactly what James Stephens is saying as the Managing Funeral Director of the new White Pines Funeral Home in Logan, Utah. According to this article from the Herald Journal…
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As we told you last Thursday, Funeral Director Daily has started a new feature every Thursday entitled, “Get to Know Them”. In this feature we bring you an interview with someone in the Death Care profession/industry. From writing this blog I’ve learned that there are so many valuable people who keep our profession moving and…
Read MoreToday’s Afternoon Edition will bring you some stories of American counties that are grappling with how to pay for increased requests for financial assistance for families that indicate that they need help in paying minimum cremation costs. We have one story from WFTS in Tampa Bay, Florida, that is very typical in telling that requests…
Read MoreToday we bring you several news reports, articles, and video pertaining to a crematory in New York state that last week had black smoke billowing from its cremation stack. The funeral home, and its crematory, are located in Tonawanda, New York, and according to some of the articles, this is not the first time that…
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