Cemetery
One 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…
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…
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