Cemetery
According to this article from the Black Hills Pioneer, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced last week that President Trump had signed the bill to expand the Black Hills National Cemetery. The cemetery, located on the western edge of South Dakota, would be expanded from 105 acres to over 300 acres. South Dakota…
Read More about President Signs Bill for Expansion of Black Hills National CemeteryPeople in the city of Janesville, Wisconsin came together Saturday to celebrate the re-opening of the Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel. You can read and see some photos of the project from this article in the Janesville Gazette Extra. What is extraordinary to me about this effort is that the cemetery fit the pattern of what…
Read More about Here is How a Community Can Make a DifferenceI came across an article today in the Minneapolis StarTribune that carried a Washington Post byline. You can read the article here and it pertains to an agreement that was reached between the National Park Service and the Missing in America Project. The Missing in America Project says that their purpose is to identify and…
Read More about Remains left at Vietnam Vets Wall to be Buried with HonorsThe Seneca County Board of Supervisors recently heard a proposal from Sampson Veterans Memorial Cemetery general manager William Yale about the possibility of adding a crematory to increase revenue to the cemetery in the future. You can read about this proposal in the article here from the Olean Times Herald. According to the article this…
Read More about New York Veteran’s Cemetery ponders cremation as Revenue SourceIn an article that you can read here the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Catholic Cemetery group is in the process of preparing to offer natural, or green burials, as an option as early as this fall. The group has announced that it is readying a portion of one of its cemeteries, Resurrection Cemetery in Mendota…
Read More about Twin Cities Catholic Cemeteries to offer Natural Burial OptionI found a couple of items in the news about issues at cemeteries or proposed cemeteries and either one is worthy of editorial space, but since they were both in the news at the same time and it is the Friday issue of Funeral Director Daily, I am presenting them both to you to read…
Read More about Cemetery Issues in the NewsTwo years ago the Massachusetts Cape Cod community of Harwich approved the transfer of land to the cemetery commission to build a pet cemetery for the community. Roads and paths are being put in, landscaping has been done and the project even won an innovation award from the Massachusetts Municipal Association. Now, according to this…
Read More about Massachusetts community to vote on Municipal Pet CrematoryIf you have read Funeral Director Daily for any length of time you will know – that while I did not have the privilege to serve in the United States Armed Forces – I truly admire and have always enjoyed serving those that did. I still get goosebumps, even after thirty-five years of being a…
Read More about Giving Service to Those Who ServedI recently came across an article in the Romulus, Michigan News Herald which you can read here. The article was, in general, about two men — Charles Cawetzka and Greg Farino. Farino is a retired U.S. Army Master Sargent and Cawetzka is a deceased U.S. Army veteran who served in the Philippine-American War in 1900. …
Read More about Paying Tribute and Respect When DueIn an article that you can read here, Minneapolis’ famed Lakewood Cemetery announced that they will kick off a three-event concert series on April 8, 2018, with a performance by Anonymous Choir. The article states that the series, “Music in the Chapel” will feature acts that you would typically see in rock venues. Currently three…
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