Cemetery
Normand Laliberte used to work for the Hummel Funeral Homes in Akron, Ohio. He confesses that he thinks funeral costs are getting pretty high and is interested in lowering the costs to families. One step he has taken on his own is to build a columbarium in a small cemetery so that families may have…
Read MoreI had expected that the post from yesterday concerning America’s Old Guard placing approximately 284,000 Memorial Day flags at Arlington National Cemetery would be all that Funeral Director Daily would do specifically for the Memorial Day holiday. However, this morning I was watching the national news on television and a short story of an organization…
Read MoreIf you are anything like me today will cause goose-bumps on your arms as you witness a Memorial Day Parade in person or some type of celebration on television to honor those who have served our country. I never was fortunate to serve and as I get older I regret it more and more. The…
Read MoreToday, I read an article in the Seattle Times about Seattle’s Denny Park. The article talks a little about the history of Denny Park and goes on to mention what it has been transformed into today in the other-wise dense South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle. The park has been transformed by over $2 million…
Read MoreAs we move up on Memorial Day next Monday and want to honor those who have went before us, it seems that there is always something in our industry that casts a pall over the business of funeral directors and cemeterians. I discovered a recent article in the Record-Courier of Ravenna, Kent and Portage Counties…
Read MoreI ran across an interesting article in the Cornell Daily Sun the other day which led me to ponder several questions about the long term maintenance of vaults, columbariums, and mausoleums in cemeteries. The article is very interesting and, quite frankly, tells of the city of Ithaca’s quest to understand what must be done to…
Read MoreA recent decision by the City of Beloit, Wisconsin, to offer more cremation options at city cemeteries is causing angst among some Beloit area businesses according to the Beloit Daily News. In essence the city is allowing their owned and operated cemeteries to offer a pricing structure that will allow for consumers to have an…
Read MoreIt probably should not take this long but a monument proposed three years ago in 2104 to honor Vietnam era helicopter pilots has just been approved by Congress for acceptance and placement into Arlington National Cemetery. An article in Military acknowledges that the idea for the monument was spearheaded in 2014 by Retired Air Force…
Read MoreA friendly but complicated twist has occurred in a cemetery that contains the remains of border towns in Hebron, Illinois. According to an article in the Lake Geneva News the Linn-Hebron Cemetery was started many years ago by members of the Linn Presbyterian Church, which used to be located in Hebron, Illinois, and started the…
Read MoreIt was recently reported on the web-site AZFamily.com that a teenager from Chandler, Arizona, found out that his good deed and Eagle Scout project was “Life-Changing” to him. Adrian Dozal, 16, used a personal connection to an Arizona cemetery to create a project to bring the cemetery back from disrepair and in the process learned…
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