Cemetery

God Bless our Troops – Yesterday and Today

By Funeral Director Daily / May 29, 2017 /

If 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…

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A Future For Urban Cemeteries?

By Funeral Director Daily / May 26, 2017 /

Today, 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…

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Here We Go Again

By Funeral Director Daily / May 24, 2017 /

As 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…

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Ithaca Cemetery Raises Vault Maintenance Question

By Funeral Director Daily / May 22, 2017 /

I 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…

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City Cemetery Decision irks Monument Businesses

By Funeral Director Daily / May 16, 2017 /

A 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…

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New Helicopter Crew Monument Approved at Arlington

By Funeral Director Daily / May 9, 2017 /

It 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…

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Loss of Cemetery Revenue Causes Tricky Response

By Funeral Director Daily / May 5, 2017 /

A 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…

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Arizona Teen Good Deed is “Life-Changing”

By Funeral Director Daily / May 1, 2017 /

It 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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VA Cemeteries to Give Pre-Need Eligibility Verification

By Funeral Director Daily / April 26, 2017 /

According to a recent article by Veteran’s advocate Gary Alexander in the Gainsville (TX) Daily Register honorably discharged veterans can now apply for burial in national cemeteries pre-need.  Until recently, veterans, and their families, had to wait until need (at the time of a death) to apply for burial. The Veteran’s Administration press release states,…

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An Opinion on StoneMor Partners

By Funeral Director Daily / April 25, 2017 /

An opinion from Seeking Alpha recently came out on one of Funeral Director Daily’s Death Care Index (DCI) stocks, namely StoneMor Partners.  The article is a really good read and goes into quite some detail on what has been happening with the company in the past six months. According to the article, the company has…

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