Cemetery
It’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 More about The savings rate and what it can do for preneed and cemetery salesMonday 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 More about A Memorial Day like no otherIt 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 More about Calverton National Cemetery suspends group flag placementsEarlier 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 More about Park Lawn moves cemetery projects forwardDuring 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 More about A funeral business advantageWe 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 More about Cemetery clean up — Is there a perfect way to notify families?Last 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…
Read More about Human composting bill introduced in New YorkWhile Funeral Director Daily has not written much on the subject lately, in today’s news feed we found two articles on the green burial movement that we thought we should pass on to our readers. According to one of the articles, Green – or Natural burials – is said to consume 4% of the death…
Read More about Keeping up with Green cemeteriesThe city of Amherst, New York, is proposing to build a “first of its kind’ memory garden in that community. The cemetery, if built, proposes to be a cremation only cemetery with walking paths and gardens and would not allow standard headstones as seen in most cemeteries. The idea has been proposed by the city…
Read More about Cremation only cemetery being plannedLet’s see. . . Super Bowl, State of the Union Speech, Impeachment Vote, my Minnesota Twins got involved in a blockbuster baseball trade, and my Minnesota Gophers beat arch-rival Wisconsin in basketball. . . it’s been quite a week to keep everything straight. To end it for my Funeral Director Daily readers I will not…
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