Business
Almost two years ago we brought you this story about Service Corporation International purchasing Allnutt Funeral Services in Colorado. Turns out that one of the locations was in Greeley, Colorado and that location recently moved to a new location in west Greeley. Upon that move we came across this story from the Greeley Tribune which…
One of Hollywood’s biggest stars of the 50’s and 60’s died on Monday. Actress and recording star Doris Day died from complications of pneumonia. She was 97. According to an article that you can read here, Day will have no funeral, no memorial, and no grave marker. Day was brought up in the Catholic faith…
I mentioned earlier this week that I spent last week in Las Vegas with about 150 people in our profession. Lots of items get bantered about at this event and one that was visited about quite frequently last week was the opening of Tulip Cremations. While I have only anecdotal knowledge of Tulip Cremation, I…
I spent three days last week in Las Vegas with about 150 other people from the death care profession. The group is a wide mix of people, with all of us having the death care industry in common. Some are small funeral home owner/operators like me, some are CEOs of the largest public death care…
Over the last week I’ve read several articles from around the world that describe different aspects of funeral directing, working as a mortician, or operating a funeral home and the people that do those tasks. Without much editorializing on my part I am just going to present the articles for you to read. This article…
The Gallup Poll recently released its findings on church membership last week and I found an article on it written by the Associated Press that you can read here. One of the interesting items was that, contrary to anecdotal thought, Hispanic Americans church membership has dropped, since 2000, from 68% to 45%. That is a…
Each individual has their own personality that is known to those that know them. Some people are gruff, some people are social, some people are always happy, some people are tight fisted with money, some people are gracious, and on and on, but all of us have traits that we are known for. Acquaintances know…
Without even recognizing it funeral service has always had niche businesses inside of it. Even full service funeral homes could fit in the niche category if they exclusively catered to protestant or catholic clientele. . . or if they were a cremation society type discounter. We’ve always had some niche operations in the industry even…
I’m a history buff and I love to look back and learn what has happened in our country. I’ve found that many times a “precipitator” happens and that event or group of events causes history to happen. I was running on my treadmill the other morning watching CNBC for business news and Fox News for…
I read an interesting article the other day from the Washington Post that you can read here about the death of a 77-year old man in Washington state. It is an interesting article about a family’s decision to skip the funeral home and bring the man back to his home for three days of visitation…
