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Why Aren’t More Stories Like This Told

By Funeral Director Daily / August 23, 2017 /

I recently viewed via video and read a story posted by KOCO of Oklahoma. The story was an incredibly heartwarming one of a segregated cemetery in Logan County, Oklahoma, where a fence separated the sides which had Caucasions buried on one side of the fence and African Americans buried on the other side. The group,…

Funeral Directors, Cemeteries, and Current Events

By Funeral Director Daily / August 17, 2017 /

I came across an article this morning that made me reflect that the death care industry generally moves and changes with social mores over time and usually does not let current events dictate change in the industry. However, once in a while, current events can move change along quick. While not going into the merits…

Here is a Creative Opportunity

By Funeral Director Daily / August 10, 2017 /

In 2004 Ralph Little had a problem — he was the owner of the Tam O’Shanter Golf Course in South Florida. According to an article in the South Florida Sun Sentinal, Little then planned a 300 home development on the property that did not pan out. He thought about putting in a large-scale water park.…

A Perpetual Problem

By Funeral Director Daily / August 1, 2017 /

An editorial appeared over the weekend in the Meridian Star of Mississippi concerning abandoned cemeteries and solutions on how to make them whole again. The article talks about a recent state decision to award two cemeteries in Mississippi that were abandoned to a new company, Perpetual, LLC. The story continues to tell of the decision…

Canada Town Rejects Muslim Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / July 21, 2017 /

I guess it is a sign of the times that we live in. Last Sunday the community of Saint-Apollinaire, Quebec – a small community of about 5000 residents just outside of Quebec City – defeated a referendum that would have allowed a minor zoning change in order to open up the possibility of a Muslim…

Chicago Archdiocese Opens First Cremation Garden

By Funeral Director Daily / July 18, 2017 /

After forbidding cremation for centuries the Roman Catholic Church accepted the practice in 1963. As the practice got more popular the Vatican decided last fall to issue a proclamation that ashes should be preserved in a church sponsored sacred place and not kept at home or scattered. An article in the Chicago Tribune just last…

Pioneer Cemeteries — Is there a Solution??

By Funeral Director Daily / July 10, 2017 /

Some of us in rural America understand the concept of pioneer cemeteries. They are small cemeteries with, in most instances, only a few burials that date back to the 1800s. Most of these cemeteries are fenced in and closed, if not by decision, then by practicality to new burials. Today, however, when there is great…

North Carolina Assembly Reverses Course – Funds Veterans’ Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / June 29, 2017 /

Almost as fast as they realized the State Budget did not contain $200,000 to fund the operations of the North Carolina State Veterans’ Cemetery in Greensboro the state’s General Assembly amended its budget bill to include such. Read about it here. Funeral Director Daily covered the original action in a post earlier today.[wpforms id=”436″ title=”true”…

Arlington National Cemetery Facts

By Funeral Director Daily / June 28, 2017 /

The goal of mine with Funeral Director Daily is not only to assist and inform owner/operators of funeral homes and cemeteries with business ideals and practices that are current in the industry but to educate them with items they don’t necessarily have the time to look into on their own. Today’s message is one of…

Army finally finalizes plans for Arlington Expansion Land

By Funeral Director Daily / June 19, 2017 /

For several years now the U.S. Army, operators of Arlington National Cemetery, have planned for an expansion to the south but had not really figured out how they were going to get the land to do so. It was thought that they would probably do some type of land swap with Arlington County, Virginia, and…

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