Cemetery
An 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…
Read More about Newspaper alleges Chicago Archdiocese uses cemetery funds to pay abuse costs“We’re going to auction off a funeral that has been donated”, said Dick Crooks, Superintendent of Center Ridge Cemetery in Sullivan, Indiana. Crooks calls his auction night, “Indian’s Most Unusual Auction”. That’s right — in an article and television news story that you can see here out of Indiana, the Center Ridge Cemetery will be…
Read More about Funeral up for AuctionTwo readers sent me this article and news video from Minneapolis KARE 11 TV yesterday. It concerns the 140 acre privately owned Crystal Lake Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Washburn-McReavy Funeral Home business owns 16 funeral homes in the Minneapolis metropolitan area and also a few cemeteries, of which Crystal Lake Cemetery is one. Earlier…
Read More about A canary in the coal mineBack in the summer of 1991 I visited Europe and specifically, Germany, for the first time in my life. There are a couple of things that I remember vividly from that experience. First of all, I remember being served bottled water at dinner and then being charged for it. Back home we were always afforded…
Read More about Here is an idea for your cemetery to raise some revenueAmerica has always been a country that practiced representative democracy according to our constitution and that type of government has never been as apparent as when I noticed two articles dealing with decisions at cemeteries, or potential cemeteries, of differing governmental levels. The first article I noticed comes to us in an article you can…
Read More about Decisions, decisionsNothing earth shattering today, just a couple articles and information I noticed about America’s veterans and a notice from the Department of Veteran Affairs. One of the things we have written about on Funeral Director Daily is that with the growth of direct cremation there tends to be a few cremated remains that just never…
Read More about A little help for our VeteransEven though this is a real news story with real valid reasoning for two people doing what they are doing, I had to chuckle just a tad when the on scene reporter started his report by saying, “These two guys are making this cemetery great again”. Regardless of your political persuasion, if you have not…
Read More about Making this Cemetery Great AgainLast week the trial of Karen Neff, a caretaker with her husband Keith Dwayne Baratie, Sr, of the Belmont Memorial Park Cemetery in Belmont County, Ohio, began. Neff’s husband, and co-defendent, will have a separate trial beginning on February 7. The couple is charged with forgery, aggravated theft and securing by deception. According to the…
Read More about Interesting Ohio Cemetery Court CaseIn the 1970s the Heavenly Acres Pet Cemetery in Livingston County, Michigan, began selling burial lots, monuments, and markers, as well as interring deceased pets for clients. Along with these charges, the cemetery collected fees for what was purposed to be perpetual care of the cemeteries. The cemetery has had some ups and downs since…
Read More about Trouble in Michigan Pet CemeteryOver the past couple of years we have written about cemeteries that get very little attention, are losing money, and are looking for someone to take them over. Many times, they have passed simply by default to the government entity where the cemetery is located. Over the weekend we read an article that you can…
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