Afternoon Edition

Afternoon Edition: Articles from the weekend

By Funeral Director Daily / October 19, 2020 /

In today’s Afternoon Edition we will provide you with some articles that came out over the weekend.  There is probably something for everybody’s interest in these articles as we always find that it is interesting to catch up with what is going on in other parts of the United States or in other parts of…

Weekend Edition: Keeping your name in the news

By Funeral Director Daily / October 16, 2020 /

As we head into this middle of October weekend I just want to leave you with some things to ponder.  Back in the 1980’s I had a friend who unfortunately got his name, and the name of his business, in the news for all the wrong reasons. When the issue at hand was pretty much…

Afternoon Edition: Get to Know Them – Peter Rose

By Funeral Director Daily / October 15, 2020 /

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…

Afternoon Edition: Smith Family Funeral Homes acquires insurance company

By Funeral Director Daily / October 12, 2020 /

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…

Afternoon Edition: “Get to Know Them” — Joe Weigel

By Funeral Director Daily / October 8, 2020 /

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…

Afternoon Edition: Misconceptions about cremation, alderman proposes annexing Chicago area cemetery, more

By Funeral Director Daily / October 6, 2020 /

In 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…

Afternoon Edition: Director/Agent license revoked, educational opportunities

By Funeral Director Daily / October 5, 2020 /

In 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…

Afternoon Edition: “Get to Know Them” — Jennifer Muldowney

By Funeral Director Daily / October 1, 2020 /

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…

Afternoon Edition: Who’s cleaning your funeral home

By Funeral Director Daily / September 30, 2020 /

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…

Afternoon Edition: A hodgepodge of news

By Funeral Director Daily / September 29, 2020 /

In 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…