Cemetery
Going into the weekend I”m looking forward to watching some football, although my Minnesota Vikings have the week off. . . .I’ve also got a busy night planned going to Gopher Women’s Basketball and our top ranked Women’s Volleyball games tonight. In the meantime, here are a couple of stories that we saw this morning…
Read More about The End of the Week. . .So, we are exactly one week from Halloween. I noticed this article from Boston.com that you can read here about the Charter Street Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts receiving thousands of visitors and had to find out why. Turns out that the Charter Street Cemetery was formerly known as The Old Burying Point Cemetery and is…
Read More about Cemetery receives up to 50,000 VisitorsI read this article from the Fort Wayne, Indiana Journal Gazette the other day. It deals with the proposition of the Divine Mercy Funeral Home, a funeral home owned and operated by the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, that is having a day where those people who bring in cremated remains will be given a…
Read More about Funeral Home/Cemetery combo offers free NichesMcCain Headstone Placed — It recently came to my attention that the headstone for U.S. Senator John McCain was placed last week. You can read an article and see photos of the grave site here. The headstone and grave are located in the U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis,Maryland. I don’t know the particulars of…
Read More about Cemetery News. . . McCain, CoorsI’ve talked about one of the disconcerting trends in the death care industry of late is that of neglected and eventually abandoned cemeteries. From my point of view I’ve pondered “Who will take care of these?” As I’ve pointed out in some articles, there are cities and townships now having to take over the financial…
Read More about Abandoned Cemeteries . . . and MausoleumsA jury reached an agreement in the amount of damages to be awarded to families in the Galilee Cemetery trial in Memphis yesterday. You can read an article on the awards here. While the award amount amount per body is listed, we don’t know the final numbers as we have never been told, at least…
Read More about Damages awarded in Tennessee cemetery trialWhen Hurricane Matthew overflowed the Neuse River near Goldsboro, North Carolina in 2016 almost 40 caskets floated from their grave sites and into the rushing and rising water. That caused city administrators the problem of eventually returning the caskets to their rightful grave spaces. As of last week 16 of those caskets that were disturbed…
Read More about Precautions alleviate casket issues during Hurricane FlorenceA verdict that will give relief to funeral directors all across the United States was handed down in the case of the Galilee Memorial Gardens case yesterday. For the last month we have kept you up to date on this case which stems from alleged neglect of deceased casketed human remains brought to the Galilee…
Read More about Jury In in Memphis Cemetery TrialPeriodically we have kept you up to date on what was happening with the planned Muslim cemetery that was proposed to be built about 40 miles northeast of Dallas, Texas. As you can read in this article here, on Thursday the Town Council of Farmersville, Texas approved plans submitted by the Islamic Association of Collin…
Read More about Texas town approves Muslim Cemetery PlanOne of the things I believe that we do pretty well at Funeral Director Daily is monitor the Death Care industry for trends that are emerging and we can provide some warning on what issues may be sneaking up on funeral directors and cemeterians. Since we started slightly over a year ago we have noticed…
Read More about The Growing Trend of Abandoned Cemeteries
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