Cemetery
We bring you this article and video about the Charles Baber Cemetery in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. We bring it to you simply because it is so unusual. The article is about an 8-foot, non-venomous black snake that has apparently taken up residence in the cemetery. It appears to live in some of the walls of the…
Read MoreOn Thursday, and in advance of Memorial Day, President and Mrs. Trump visited the hallowed land of Arlington National Cemetery. You can read an article about the visit here. The visit was held ahead of the traditional Memorial Day visit as today (Friday) the President will be leaving for Japan on our country’s business. Arlington…
Read MoreI understand that the cost of labor can rise and get prohibitively high. It is for that reason that creative managers look for ways to lower their costs of doing business. Funeral Director Daily did an article last year about the Laura Grove North Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia, that was doing a pilot program for…
Read MoreI’m a life-long Lutheran and have attended the same church since I was born. As a matter of fact, my great-grandfather, where the roots for our funeral home business come from as he started out as a cabinet maker who then built coffins to order – is one of six men listed on the charter…
Read MoreToday we bring you this story that broke earlier this week out of West Seneca, New York. It deals with the movement of about 220 buried caskets from one part of a cemetery to another part of that same cemetery. You can see a story and news video about this from WKBW of Buffalo here.…
Read MoreWashington Park Cemetery sits in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. It is a cemetery that opened in 1920 and has not accepted new burials for almost three decades according to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle. Wanda Brandon is among a group of volunteers who tend to the cemetery. She has filed a lawsuit against…
Read MoreOne of the great things about being retired and not working everyday is the time that I have to do things. One of the things I do is mentor young business people — some where I have an investment in the company. . . and some where I just give advice when I am asked.…
Read MoreA television news report and story from WSET out of Lynchburg, West Virginia, can be seen here and tells of a Facebook group that has garnered more than 600 followers that says that there is a problem with the way StoneMor Partners operates their cemeteries. Melissa Cash, whose father is buried at the Fort Hill…
Read MoreThe other day an article was published in Boston Magazine with the title, “Boston’s other Housing Crisis: The Cemeteries”. It is a full length feature article that gets into the costs associated with being buried at cemeteries inside the city of Boston as well as the options for burial in suburban and farther rural areas…
Read MoreAn article was published last weekend by the Chicago Sun-Times that questioned if money from the Archdiocese of Chicago cemetery operations was being diverted to pay down debt incurred because of priest misconduct cases. You can read the article here. The Catholic Church in Chicago has for years said, according to the article, that the…
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