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Service Corporation International and its brand, Dignity Memorial, recently announced that it will, for the 10th consecutive year, sponsor the Donate Life float that will appear in the 129th Rose parade on January 1, 2018. You can read their press release here. The Donate Life Rose Parade float helps raise awareness of the important cause…
Read MoreAt Funeral Director Daily we are very blessed. Funeral service has been very good to us and we have had the satisfaction of knowing that we made a difference in the lives of many by the way we helped during their time of loss. I’ve also been blessed by having a wife and children who…
Read MoreThere is no doubt that we all agree that what happened in that small Texas town last Sunday was a great tragedy beyond proportions. It should never have happened — but it did. From where I sit, in Minnesota, over 1000 miles away from the village of Sutherland Springs, Texas, it seems so distant —…
Read MoreAfter a couple months of testing posts, with a small audience of critics, to see if I liked doing this I turned the site over to Twitter, Facebook, and Google to try to reach new readers. Since then, we have been growing in readership organically at about 1.5 – 2% daily. Thanks for joining up.…
Read MoreIf you live in Minnesota like I do you are very aware of the WNBA. The WNBA, or Women’s National Basketball Association, is the summer – and female – version of the NBA. Our hometown, Minnesota Lynx have been National Champions three times. This year our Lynx are in the play-off process right now and…
Read MoreEvery Monday we try to give a little run-down on items that we have noticed in the media concerning funeral service, cemeteries, and related services. Today we have everything from a story about a benevolent funeral director giving back to his community to a funeral homes nightmare about a family receiving the wrong cremation remains.…
Read MoreYesterday we wrote about an article in Chicago Business which featured a story on Chicago area funeral homes that were seeing a drop in margins and a drop in number of calls. The end result of that fact was that many of the smaller firms were actually closing their doors for good. Funeral Director Daily…
Read More“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the…
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