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Every so often I read an article on funeral service that just makes me smile. When that happens it is not an article on caskets or mergers, or acquisitions, or cash-flow, or pre-need, or aftercare, it is always about the lives that have been lived serving their communities as funeral directors. Maybe, it is because…
I came across an article the other day in the Traverse City Record-Eagle with the headline “A New Life Story: Funeral home to move into bigger Location”. The story and accompanying picture caught my eye because the photo showed a construction sign that said, “Life Story Funeral Home – Traverse City.” What really caught my…
In a recent article from the News Herald that you can find here, a Cleveland, Ohio based funeral home is more than doubling its square footage of service area in an addition valued at over $1.2 million. The Gattozzi and Son Funeral Home in Chester Township is adding the space to keep pace with the…
Since the 1st of the year we have been busy telling you what happened with the public companies, where we think the public companies are going, what we think will happen in the industry in 2018, reminiscing about an old lawsuit in the industry, and giving some advice on getting positive public relations for your…
When I left off on Friday the now over 20 year old case of Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Homes v. The Loewen Group was our topic. As I told you, it was an incredibly interesting drama unfolding in a Mississippi courtroom – all over the aggressive expansion plans and tactics of a Canadian based funeral home consolidator.…
Over the New Year’s Holiday I noticed a small blip in a Mississippi newspaper, the Sun Herald, which announced the fact that Jeffrey O’Keefe, Jr. of Gulfport has been named President of Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Homes. It goes on to say, as you can read here, that Mr. O’Keefe is a sixth generation family member in…
It is always fun when the ball drops in Times Square at the rise of the New Year to think about how the future will be affecting you. Thinking about what will happen in the death care industry in North America is not something that comes to everybody’s mind, but if you make your livelihood…
One of every owners worst nightmares came true on Tuesday, December 26, to Jerry Lee Taylor, the owner of Taylor Funeral home in Gibson, Georgia. Early that morning fire raged through his funeral home in the rural Georgia town as explained in a story and video seen here from WJBF Television of Augusta, Georgia. According…
Last week I wrote an article dealing with the professional staffing shortage in the death care industry. While there is some question, depending on who you talk to, as to whether the funeral service staffing shortage is perceived or real, there is no doubt that the economy keeps humming along in America and Economics 101…
The other day I told you that I had become privy to a report done on the state of the American Casket industry. We gave out some insights on the industry and both its past decline and its probable future decline in units sold and dollar amounts sold. One of the things that I found…
