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An article that appeared recently on the Bolivarmonews.com web-site which you can read here announced the merger of two funeral homes in Buffalo, Missouri into one facility. It was announced that the Cantlon-Otterness Funeral Home and the Montgomery-Viets Funeral Home will become one entity owned by the Howe family of Lebanon, Missouri. The Howe family…
Read MoreI came across a couple of news articles in the last couple of days that knock home the fact that you have to know who you are hiring when you hire somebody to work at your facility. What are your hiring practices?? With the shortage of licensed help, do you hire the first licensee that…
Read MoreA sale was recorded last Monday in the Dayton, Ohio area pertaining to the purchase of land at 820 Miamisburg-Centerville Road according to property records reported by the Dayton Daily News. The property, with seven acres of land, was owned by Schlientz-Moore Funeral Home and purchased by Warren Family Funeral Homes, Inc. According to the…
Read MoreI came across an article the other day on nextavenue.org that you can read here pertaining to the growing number of women who are entering the funeral director field. The article focused on funeral director Jan Smith of Indianapolis who attended mortuary school in the 1990s. Ms. Smith recalls that the number of females in…
Read MoreThe Journey Group, a death care industry consolidator based out of the New Orleans area, announced last week the purchase and acquisition of two firms in the greater Birmingham, Alabama, area. Both firms are metropolitan combination firms — each with a funeral home facility on a cemetery property. According to the press release that you…
Read MoreLast week our Commander/Businessman-in-Chief, President Donald Trump, indicated that he is willing to put a 25% tariff on steel imports from foreign countries. It is interesting to note that, at this time, we don’t know if he will follow thru with such or is using the threat to get Mexico and Canada back to the…
Read MoreHave you noticed in the last several years the number of Saturday funeral or memorial services that you conduct in comparison to the services that are done the rest of the week. At least, anecdotally, if you don’t keep statistics, you must feel you are scheduling staff more and more on Saturdays to serve…
Read MoreI am always amazed at what is happening in the funeral industry that I have not caught on to yet. My friend, Dave Westburg, who operates Billboard Insider blog and who was instrumental in telling me that I have the knowledge to start a death care industry blog, just scooped me on something that I…
Read MoreWe at Funeral Director Daily could not let February turn into March without recognizing that February represents Black History Month. We also felt that this would be the perfect time to tell you that although names are not always recorded in history books, it does not mean that those people did not play a significant…
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