Cemetery
Last week Funeral Director Daily learned about a lawsuit against a Park Lawn affiliate cemetery from this article. The article contends that the American Moslem Society (AMS) of Dearborn, Michigan, has filed a lawsuit alleging an attempt by Woodmere Cemetery to breach its contract with the mosque. According to the article, AMS has purchased more…
Read MoreNew Orleans, Louisiana, is known as a great American city. Because the city sits about 15-18 feet below sea level and has levies protecting the city its cemeteries are well known for their unique above ground burials in some places. Because of some of these type of land issues, the city itself has found itself…
Read MoreI love the idea of “American ingenuity”. To me it means the thought process that is developed to keep things moving ahead even when the system to do so has been upended. And, around the world this Spring, the system has truly been upended with the advent of the COVID-19 situation. However, if you are…
Read MoreIt’s not even noon on Sunday yet and I’ve had a pretty good day already. Minnesota has allowed churches to open at 25% of capacity so my wife and I attended church today, albeit wearing masks and sitting far from anybody else, for the first time since mid-March. Also, singing was banned for just instrumental…
Read MoreMonday will bring Memorial Day to those of us in the United States. It is a day like none other. Not only does it serve as the weekend when summer begins, but it ultimately is the day all Americans should solemnly, sometime during the day, ponder and give thanks to all who were willing to…
Read MoreIt was announced this week that Calverton National Cemetery, a property of the National Cemetery Administration and reserved for our nation’s honored veterans and their dependents, will be suspending their tradition of allowing groups to place American flags at grave sites for Memorial Day “because of the health risks posed by the coronavirus”. Calverton National…
Read MoreEarlier in March Park Lawn Corporation, the Toronto based funeral home and cemetery consolidator and operator, announced that it was updating their progress on a couple of large projects. The company announced that construction of an on-site funeral visitation and reception center at the Westminster Cemetery in Toronto was under way. The structure will be…
Read MoreDuring my high school summers I worked for a furniture store delivering furniture. One of the things that I came to realize during that time was the concept of warranties and just how much it mattered in that business. The owner of the furniture store and the sales reps sold furniture not only with the…
Read MoreWe bring you this article from the Longview (TX) News Journal that deals with the clean up of two cemeteries in the city. The cemeteries are both owned by Service Corporation International and the news article deals with some families dismay that they believe that they were not properly notified of the clean up. According…
Read MoreLast year the state of Washington became the first in the nation to legalize human disposition by human composting or recomposition, as it has been termed. That law allows the process starting on May 1 of this year. Since that news broke we know of efforts in Colorado to move recomposition forward. We also know…
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