Cemetery
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 —…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
