Cemetery

Dead people don’t pay taxes

By Funeral Director Daily / October 21, 2025 /

    In early October North America’s largest purveyor of Death Care services, Service Corporation International (SCI), received an approved zoning ruling to build Funeraria del Angel, a funeral home and cemetery in San Antonio, Texas.  You can read about the development in this article from the San Antonio Report titled “Against a school district’s…

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Are we in the midst of a paradigm shift, from “Services selection” to “Memorialization selection”, by the consumer

By Funeral Director Daily / October 16, 2025 /

    As things seem to do in my life, circumstances came together this week to have me reflect on changes in the Death Care profession/industry.  First of all, here’s three items that came together to make me think about changes in our businesses.   I attended the funeral of a long-time member of my…

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Hollywood Forever’s “High-Rise” mausoleum and “Premium” products may be the future of cemeteries

By Funeral Director Daily / October 14, 2025 /

  This information (with photos) from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery announces the opening of their recently completed Gower Mausoleum.  Here’s a paragraph from the cemetery’s recent announcement:   “Hollywood Forever is honored to announce the opening of the Gower Mausoleum, a new architectural landmark in Los Angeles and the tallest mausoleum in the United States.…

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Park Lawn adds Memorial Gardens in Taos

By Funeral Director Daily / October 6, 2025 /

  According to this press release from Park Lawn Corporation, the funeral home and cemetery consolidator added what they call their Taos Memorial Gardens adjacent to their existing DeVargas Funeral Home in Taos, New Mexico.   In a prepared statement from the press release Park Lawn Corporation Chief Executive Officer Jennifer W. Hay made this…

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Green Burials. . . . . .The Resistance

By Funeral Director Daily / September 25, 2025 /

    Minnesota funeral director Scott Mueller is a proponent of “Green Burials”.  Mueller makes a comment in this recent article from the Rochester (MN) Post-Bulletin titled “As interest in green burials grows, so does some opposition”.  Mueller’s comment is this, “As long as people have walked this earth, we’ve had green burials.  Every cemetery…

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Airlines, cemeteries dealing with “Wide-bodies”

By Funeral Director Daily / September 3, 2025 /

    Just last week according to this article from Newsweek “Southwest Airlines announced that it was ending a policy that allowed plus-size travelers to book an extra seat without extra costs. Under the new rules, passengers must buy two seats if they cannot fit on one, but refunds may be considered if the flight…

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Cemetery put in trustee’s hands

By Funeral Director Daily / August 20, 2025 /

  Last month a judge in Indiana removed the obligation of taking care of a non-profit cemetery away from the cemetery corporation and placed it in the hands of the government. . . in this case Center Township.  In his decision, Judge Nathan Meeks commented that the Marion Cemetery Corporation efforts to maintain the cemetery…

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Interment eligibility case playing out at Punchbowl National Cemetery of the Pacific

By Funeral Director Daily / August 7, 2025 /

    There is an interesting case, which you can read about and see a news video of here, blowing through the tradewinds of Hawaii at this time concerning the eligibility of burial in a Veterans’ Administration National Cemetery.  The case concerns the potential of a dis-interment of U.S. Army veteran and Honorably Discharged Dr.…

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Regions Bank: It’s like having an expert on staff

By Funeral Director Daily / July 28, 2025 /

  When I was operating my funeral home most of my energy went to taking care of the families I was serving, taking care of the staff I was leading, and taking care of the budget I was trying to meet.  Doing all of that didn’t always leave enough time to thoroughly look after the…

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Catholic Diocese of Fresno, California files for bankruptcy. . . says cemeteries and preneed will not be affected

By Funeral Director Daily / July 11, 2025 /

    This article from Angelus tells of the the July 1, 2025, bankruptcy filing of the Catholic Diocese of Fresno, California.  The article makes this comment about the filing:   In the Chapter 11 petition — filed July 1 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District Court of California, Fresno Division — diocesan…

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