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Today’s Funeral Director Daily feature will have a decidedly Minnesota bent to it. We are going to tell you of Angela Woosley, a mortician and recently a senior teaching specialist at the University of Minnesota who has decided to leave the academic world and pursue her own business that will provide alternative end-of-life options for…
Cision PR Newswire published the results of the Foresight Companies 2020 Funeral and Cemetery Behavior Study on Wednesday. You can see the Cision article here. In it they mention that this survey was based on 2,548 respondents “drawn from a nationally representative panel sample of U.S. residents.” Chris Cruger, Partner and Chief Operation Officer at…
For almost 40 years our funeral home has had advertising for preneed clientele based on the premise, “Like an umbrella in a sudden shower, some things are good to have before they are needed”. In different ways on radio, print, and online we go on to explain that preneed funeral insurance is one of those…
I recently came across this article from Toronto Life. It is excellent . . . you should read it. I found it heartwarming, compassionate, and sincere — it is about a funeral director and a funeral home trying to give care in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s a quote from the article which…
We learned earlier this week and it was reported in this USA Today article that states in part, “Aimee Stephens, a transgender Michigan woman whose case questioning whether federal law protected transgender individuals from job discrimination became the first of its kind to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court died Tuesday. She was 59.”…
Shortly after the New Year’s bell rang my wife, Angie, and I headed out for one of the joys of retirement. . . extended time in a warm weather location that serves the purpose of shortening what can be fierce Minnesota winters for us. One of our favorite locations is Hawaii and we left for…
Last week we brought you an initial report on Service Corporation International’s report of their 1st Quarter 2020 results. We also promised that we would go “inside the numbers” to see what other financial information we could find that may be of benefit to all of you who own or manage funeral homes. Today, we…
As you know if you have been reading Funeral Director Daily in the last month, it appears that the “no large gatherings” rules that are in effect in many states across America have had a negative effect on all things death care. Funeral homes have talked about revenue declines in many of their service categories…
