Cemetery
I’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 More about Looking back to the men who rodeToday 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 More about New York cemetery moves caskets without notification, State investigatingWashington 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 More about Cemetery volunteers file lawsuit against billboard companyOne 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 More about An unsung hero in the funeral tradeA 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 More about Facebook group challenges StoneMor on cemetery operationsThe 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 More about What would you pay for a cemetery lot in Boston?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…
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