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I read a tear jerker article yesterday in the Minneapolis Tribune that you can read here. The article deals with the July 6 death of a 6 year old Iowa boy and how his parents are using his wishes from speaking candidly with him about what he would want for his funeral and burial preferences.…
Read MoreToday we bring you an article from HartfordBusiness.com about a new funeral home business that just opened up in suburban Hartford, Connecticut. The funeral home is a 5,000 square foot building in Plainville, CT and is owned and operated by a 20-year veteran funeral director Andrea Wasley, a lifelong resident of the community. You can…
Read MoreEnvironmentally friendly can come in different ideas and can be different for different people. In the death care industry there is no shortage of those that want to capitalize on the growing green movement among societies. In that regard, I found three articles published at different places from around the world that dealt with, in…
Read MoreNot quite a year ago we reported that funeral home consolidator Service Corporation International had acquired 13 locations in Colorado when they announced the purchase of the Allnut Funeral Homes. We noticed a press release today that indicates how important the growing Colorado market is to the company when SCI announced that they are making…
Read MoreAccording to a release published in the Sarasota Business Observer, funeral professional Robert Toale and his family have joined the Dignity Memorial Network in Sarasota and Manatee Counties of Florida. Again, according to the release, Dignity Memorial now has 2,000 funeral, cremation, and cemetery service providers in its network. You can read the release here.…
Read MoreThe lead article in yesterday’s Sunday Minneapolis Star Tribune was entitled, “As Churches Close, a Way of Life Fades”. It is an excellent article on the path our nation, and by the graph I’ve put with this article, other nations are heading with church membership. You can read the article here. Funeral Director Daily take: …
Read MoreYesterday was another day that makes me proud to be an American. Angie and I have been married thirty years and over that time our celebration of the 4th of July has become a quiet, but looked forward to family and small town tradition. We start with a picnic at my cousin’ s home then…
Read MoreOver the weekend the Charleston (SC) Post and Courier ran an in-depth story about the death care business in South Carolina questioning the ethics, inspection department, and peer oversight of our industry in that state. You can read the story here. What prompted the story and investigation into the death care industry was the story…
Read MoreWithin the last month a reader commented on one of our postings with the comment, “The process is always greater than the product”. I recently went through an automobile purchase for my 20 year old and can argue that I don’t really believe that statement to be true all the time. In this case, I…
Read MoreWe recently came across a couple of brief articles pertaining to existing funeral homes making additions to their operation in order to add new revenue. The first of these articles is from the Hastings (Minnesota) Star Gazette and you can find it here. It pertains to the Ellis Funeral Home of Hastings breaking ground for…
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