Cemetery

Labor strife in California cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / September 3, 2019 /

I find it somewhat uncanny and unusual timing but, on the day after we celebrated Labor Day, we are bringing you this article from the the San Mateo (California) Daily Journal that pertains to a strike of cemetery workers at the Skylawn Memorial Park in that city.  Over the last year we have brought you…

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The “High End” memorial spectrum

By Funeral Director Daily / August 23, 2019 /

When you enter the business world you have the option of who you want to entice as a customer of your business.  Think of the dining out category of businesses and you can easily see the different business models that owners use in trying to make a profit.  There is the McDonald’s or Taco Bell…

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The exhumation of Public Enemy #1

By Funeral Director Daily / August 20, 2019 /

Getting an exhumation, once you have the proper paperwork in order would not seem like such a big deal.  As a funeral director I have supervised about a dozen of them over the years.  I never really liked them. . . all were done to simply move the vault from one cemetery to another or…

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Arizona city to sell cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / August 15, 2019 /

This is an interesting news story because it seems so many times we have published stories about cemeteries asking to be taken over by cities or other municipal agencies because they could no longer make a profit.  We noticed this story, that you can read here, about the City of Glendale, Arizona, planning to sell…

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Cornell University donates to Ithaca City Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / August 6, 2019 /

At Funeral Director Daily we have harped continuously about some of the problems plaguing many cemeteries in this day of fewer casketed interments and less top-line revenue coming into the cemetery coffers.  We’ve pointed out that at some point in the not so distant future many cemeteries will not be able to afford their own…

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Cemeteries — merge to survive?

By Funeral Director Daily / August 2, 2019 /

An article in Pennsylvania’s Morning Call that you can read here gave an indication that two historical and prominent cemeteries in Easton, Pennsylvania, are on the verge of merging together to save costs, simply to survive economic hardships. Easton Cemetery, a 90 acre cemetery that has been open for 170 years and Easton Heights Cemetery,…

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Better Place Forests. . . a new wave of memorialization

By Funeral Director Daily / June 28, 2019 /

It seems like this medium is many times writing about the need for more permanent memorialization options to be available for our death care consumers.  It also seems like we spend a lot of time writing about new start-ups in the death care profession that are hoping to catch the new wave of consumer thinking. …

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Gilbert, Arizona to get its first cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / June 26, 2019 /

To those of us who live in storied towns and communities that have been around since the before the Revolutionary War in the East and the westward land rush in the Midwest the title of this article may seem odd.  Historical communities have cemeteries. . . even cemeteries that are filled with no more space…

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Cemetery trends continue

By Funeral Director Daily / June 17, 2019 /

One of the things that we have noticed in our two years of searching for articles on the funeral and cemetery professions is that there seems to be no shortage of articles about cemeteries which have been around for a long time but are now, for the first time, experiencing numbing financial stress.  We bring…

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Good Samaritans still abound

By Funeral Director Daily / June 12, 2019 /

We’ve advocated that one of the issues that funeral homes have to overcome to continue to serve the needs of families in need is to emphasize the fact the “Permanent Memorialization” matters.  By that we mean that cremated remains cannot just be left in a closet or left at the funeral home unclaimed.  They need…

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