Cemetery

Mortuary school holds commencement in cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / May 14, 2021 /

Upholding to the Covid-19 social distancing rules of the University of Minnesota the graduating class and faculty of the Department of Mortuary Science had to come up with a creative way to make this year’s graduation ceremonies memorable for the graduating seniors.  With indoor facilities on campus off limits for this year, the department worked…

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Report: Headstone market hot

By Funeral Director Daily / April 27, 2021 /

A big part of our mission at Funeral Director Daily is to look around the death care industry and report what we see happening in the profession back to our fellow funeral directors.  Our thought is that those fellow funeral directors were much like I was in my 35 year front-line funeral service career —…

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Wilbert adds precast concrete company

By Funeral Director Daily / April 22, 2021 /

It’s not only funeral homes and cemeteries that are in the business of growing their businesses to better serve clientele. Last week we received word that Wilbert, Inc., the nation’s preeminent burial vault company, made an acquisition to bolster their presence in the Northeast corridor of the United States.  Here is the information that we…

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The importance of permanent memorialization

By Funeral Director Daily / February 25, 2021 /

The pyramids in Egypt were built to give permanent memorialization to the rulers of that land.  The tomb of the 13th Disciple to Christ, Matthias, can be seen to give credence to his life.  George Washington, known by many as the Father of America has a burial site at his Mount Vernon home. However, there…

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Cemetery delays, casket company acquisitions in the news

By Funeral Director Daily / January 22, 2021 /

As we wrap up another week at Funeral Director Daily we bring you some news that is seeming to happen because of the COVID situation and some news that just continues to happen as business opportunities present themselves regardless of the COVID situation across the world. Our first item, that we cannot remember happening in…

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Treasure seeker pleads guilty in Fort Yellowstone Cemetery charges

By Funeral Director Daily / January 11, 2021 /

It was reported in this press release from the United States Attorneys District of Wyoming office that a treasure seeker in the Forrest Fenn inspired treasure hunt had pleaded guilty to charges of “excavating or trafficking in archaeological resources, and injury or depredation to United States property” within Fort Yellowstone Cemetery. This is not the…

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Cemeteries: Do you have the “right” inventory to succeed?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 5, 2021 /

There is an old saying about location, location, location.  However, if you are in the sales business you know you have to have the proper inventory also. We have a lot of subscribers in the cemetery business at Funeral Director Daily.  Some of these subscribers work for the big companies like Service Corporation, Park Lawn,…

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Vale Cemetery receives ACE Award

By Funeral Director Daily / December 22, 2020 /

Vale Cemetery of Schenectady, New York, was recently given the American Cemetery Excellence Award (ACE Award) as presented by American Cemetery and Cremation magazine.  While the magazine calls it the ACE Award, I like to just refer to it as the “Cemetery of the Year” award because the magazine awards only one cemetery annually. According…

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2020 and the realities of smaller cemeteries. . . Netherlands recommends alkaline hydrolysis

By Funeral Director Daily / November 23, 2020 /

Over the last couple of years that I have published Funeral Director Daily, I’ve written on this topic a couple of times.  “This topic” is that of smaller association cemeteries and the financial plights more and more of them seem to be falling into.  I limit this discussion to “association cemeteries” simply because church cemeteries,…

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Lessons learned from growing up as an FDK (Funeral Director’s Kid)

By Funeral Director Daily / November 19, 2020 /

This article will be published on Friday morning because I figure it won’t be real business like, but it will be something that the reader can carry into the weekend.  Lots of people talk about PK’s – Preacher’s Kids – but there is another group of us who grew up in a funeral home or…

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