Cemetery

These People are Serious About Digging Graves

By Funeral Director Daily / December 6, 2017 /

What do you do if you live in a land where most people’s religious beliefs forbid cremation and the land that you live in is so small that it is running out of room for proper burials?  People in Israel are in the midst of confronting that situation and have already built cemetery towers –…

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It Doesn’t Get Much Stranger Than This

By Funeral Director Daily / December 5, 2017 /

A recent article and news feed that you can see here describes that Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf is set to sign a bill into law which lets loved ones visit the graves of their deceased relatives in private cemeteries.  My take is that you should not need legislation to be able to do that. As…

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Where Would You Be on This Issue

By Funeral Director Daily / November 17, 2017 /

The web-site for the Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery describe it as a National Treasure that was founded in 1829.  It is known as a cemetery with soldiers from as far back as the Revolutionary War among the sacred dead.  The site goes on to say that the cemetery was abandoned in 2008 and “is…

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A Sticky Situation at the Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / November 6, 2017 /

I read a short article and watched a newsclip the other day about a situation that has happened at a cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia.  I’m certain that this situation is not unique and many cemeteries have or will find themselves in the same situation at some time. That situation is about inadvertently selling the same…

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Wreaths Across America Volunteers Needed

By Funeral Director Daily / October 19, 2017 /

Thousands of volunteers are needed on Saturday, December 16, 2017, at Arlington National Cemetery by the non-profit Wreaths Across America to lay wreaths and remember the lives of those that have served.  You can learn how you can participate by clicking here. Wreaths Across America is now in its 26th year and coordinates wreath-laying ceremonies…

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372 Anonymous Dead Re-buried

By Funeral Director Daily / October 17, 2017 /

Last Wednesday the partial bones of at least 372 people were reburied in Amherst, New York at the Assumption Cemetery according to a  news release from the University of Buffalo. The process that lead to this was first started in 2008 when the University of Buffalo began some construction on their south campus.  It was…

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Rose Hills Cemetery Workers Unionize

By Funeral Director Daily / October 16, 2017 /

According to an article in LA Weekly, the mechanics, welders, and interment specialists at Whittier, California cemetery, Rose Hills, voted 35-23 to join the Cemetery Workers and Greens Attendants Union, SEIU Local 265, on Friday, October 13. The cemetery, one of 470 cemeteries owned by Service Corporation International, is 1,400 acres in size and one…

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StoneMor Amends Credit, Hints at Dividend Cut, Reduction of Units

By Funeral Director Daily / October 9, 2017 /

StoneMor Parnters, LP, a publicly traded death care company that owns and operates both funeral homes and cemeteries announced in a        press release on Friday, October 6, 2017, that they will be amending their secured credit facility.  You can read about the modifications here. In reading the entire release, the Chairman of…

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Cemeteries — To Tax or Not to Tax

By Funeral Director Daily / October 4, 2017 /

It’s no secret that taxing authorities are looking for all of the ways that they can raise taxes to put to government work.  I read an interesting article just yesterday in the Delaware County Daily Times of Pennsylvania whereby the local Marple Newtown School District had claimed that the value of an Archdiocese of Philadelphia…

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Monday Morning “Snip-Its”

By Funeral Director Daily / October 2, 2017 /

This Monday morning we will bring you some updates on issues/articles that we have mentioned in the past that are back in the news.  We’ve found out that the City of Irvine, California, is one step closer to its first ever veterans cemetery, that California Governor Jerry Brown’s signature is the only remaining necessity in…

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