Cemetery

From the Veterans Day file

By Funeral Director Daily / November 12, 2019 /

Yesterday was Veteran’s Day across the United States and we noticed a couple of funeral related items that we thought we would pass on to our readers. First of all, we noticed how Service Corporation International’ s Dignity Memorial location in Western Michigan received some really good attention on a television talk show about pre-planning…

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The dead rising?

By Funeral Director Daily / November 5, 2019 /

Regardless what your personal views are on climate change, we found this article from the E & E News that explains that there have been a lot more cemeteries that have seen problems from rising water and what E & E determines is climate change in the last couple of years. The article starts off…

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Just in time for Halloween

By Funeral Director Daily / October 31, 2019 /

Leave it to a couple of iconic names in the business news world to connect the death care profession with Halloween.  Although you should probably expect it, we came across a couple of articles today that link our livelihoods with the October 31 holiday. First, from Forbes.  In this article you can read about “13…

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Vancouver cemetery considers three dimensional plots

By Funeral Director Daily / October 29, 2019 /

Sustainability and the ability to make more out of less has led the Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver, British Columbia, to explore options that would allow more graves in the cemetery.  The cemetery has operated in the city since 1887 and was shut down to new grave lot purchases during the time period of 1986…

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Dillinger exhumation. . .the next chapter

By Funeral Director Daily / October 28, 2019 /

In the continuing saga of the possible exhumation of famed bank robber John Dillinger, a relative of Dillinger’s has been given the okay for an exhumation to occur on December 31.  This comes after a legal fight in which the original exhumation date in September came and went without incident.  You can see the latest…

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Cemetery life: Halloween movie cancelled, lawsuit

By Funeral Director Daily / October 24, 2019 /

Today we decided that we would be light on the editorial topic and just present a couple of short news articles to our readers concerning issues in cemeteries across the country. The first article that we will furnish to our readers is here and concerns the Lafayette Memorial Park in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where a…

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Trouble. . . or maybe. . .compromise in Paradise

By Funeral Director Daily / October 22, 2019 /

The Hawaiian Memorial Park opened in 1958, one year prior to Hawaii joining the country as the 50th State.  The cemetery located out in Kaneohe on the eastern, or windward side of the island, was probably way out in the country and zoning issues were far from people’s minds.  More land was bought in 1982…

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With space issues looming, Army proposes new rules for eligibility at Arlington

By Funeral Director Daily / October 3, 2019 /

According to this article from the Washington Post, new rules are being proposed on who can be buried at Arlington National Cemetery because of space issues.  In the article, Karen Durham-Aguilera, the cemetery’s executive director states, “Our reality is that we are running out of space.  Without any changes in eligibility we will be full…

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How to pay for failing cemeteries? — This county thinks it can pass a property tax

By Funeral Director Daily / September 27, 2019 /

This is not the first time that we have discussed the issue of neglected, abandoned, or just plain financially failing cemeteries on this forum.  However, this might be the first time where a county is to the point where they may bring the issue to the voters in order to create a dedicated funding stream…

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Maine veterans’ cemetery going green

By Funeral Director Daily / September 23, 2019 /

A project set to begin this fall for 554 pre-placed crypts at the Southern Maine Veterans’ Cemetery will also include 234 “green burial” graves that will be created.  According to this article from the Journal Times, cemetery superintendent Scott Brown commented that, “It will be the first state (veterans) cemetery in the nation to have…

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