Newcomer Funeral Service Group purchases Dayton Property

By Funeral Director Daily March 13, 2018

A sale was recorded last Monday in the Dayton, Ohio area pertaining to the purchase of land at 820 Miamisburg-Centerville Road according to property records reported by the Dayton Daily News.  The property, with seven acres of land, was owned by Schlientz-Moore Funeral Home and purchased by Warren Family Funeral Homes, Inc. According to the…

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Monday Round-Up

By Funeral Director Daily March 12, 2018

Funeral Director Daily found a lot of news over the weekend on the death care industry.  Instead of trying to pick a great article for our readers we thought that today we would just throw you the headlines of some interesting articles and let you you click to any you might be interested in reading…

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Mortuary School Issue may cause Invalidated Licenses

By Funeral Director Daily March 12, 2018

The New York Post reported over the weekend in an article that you can read here that the State Bureau of Funeral Directing has notified 94 New York morticians that they will lose their licenses if they don’t re-take their exam by June 30 or apply for an extension to December 31.  In addition, according…

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TN Senator Alexander in Support of Veteran Burial Benefit

By Funeral Director Daily March 9, 2018

I read an interesting article yesterday and learned something – after 35 years in the funeral business – that I did not know about our veterans and the cemeteries that they are buried in.  I have always been aware of the Veteran’s Administration and the National Cemeteries that they controlled and operated.  Yesterday, I learned…

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SCI Presents at Raymond James Investor Conference

By Funeral Director Daily March 8, 2018

  Death care industry company Service Corporation International recently presented at the Raymond James 39th Annual Institutional Investors Conference.  I’ve found a  slide deck about their company on Seeking Alpha that you can see here.  It was part of their power point presentation to institutional investors and is an interesting synopsis of the company as…

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BUSINESS

Discretion over Valor

By Funeral Director Daily | March 27, 2024

    I was reminded this week that many times “Discretion is the choice over Valor”.  In writing today’s column, which will eventually get down to the Death Care business, I’m going to share a…

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Demographics: How the changes may affect your funeral home

By Funeral Director Daily | March 22, 2024

    Back when I was a child there was a soap opera daily on television that carried the slogan, “Like sands through an hourglass, so go the Days of our Lives”.    I thought of…

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Does the latest Producer Price Index put funeral homes between a rock and a hard place?

By Funeral Director Daily | March 19, 2024

    The business news last week was centered on the Producer’s Price Index (PPI) rising 0.6% in the month February, which equates to an annual 7.2% inflationary rate.  That reading, after being lower and…

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FINANCE

Propel Funeral Partners reports 1st Half 2024

By Funeral Director Daily | March 26, 2024

    The growth of Propel Funeral Partners of Australia and New Zealand is apparent when you look at the company’s financial report covering the 1st-Half of 2024, ending on December 31, 2023.  In looking…

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Our Take: Park Lawn/Carriage Services 2023 dance ending with no agreement probably worked out best for all concerned

By Funeral Director Daily | March 14, 2024

      Back in 2017 when I served on the board of the University of Minnesota I had a hand in the hiring of new Head Football Coach P.J. Fleck.  Coach Fleck is still…

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Park Lawn Corp reports 2023. . . Revenues increase 6.6%

By Funeral Director Daily | March 11, 2024

      Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), a publicly-held funeral home and cemetery operator reported their 2023 4th Quarter and 2023 Full-Year financial results last week.  In those results, which you can see here, the…

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REGULATIONS

Unclaimed bodies causing issues in Canadian provinces

By Funeral Director Daily | March 28, 2024

    What happens when deceased human remains remain unclaimed?  In the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador that situation is causing a problem.  According to this article there is no easy solution on the…

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America’s military cemeteries face financial backlog for upkeep and improvements

By Funeral Director Daily | March 25, 2024

    Kansas United States Senator Jerry Moran recently testified at a United States Senate Veterans Affairs Committee meeting that “When mourning a death the last thing a grieving family needs is some bureaucratic hurdle…

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Friday was a “Great Day” for funeral service

By Funeral Director Daily | March 18, 2024

    Friday was March 15 or the “Ides of March”.  And, it appears that Friday, March 15, 2024, was a better day for funeral service than Friday, March 15, 44 BC was for Julius…

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CEMETERY

America’s military cemeteries face financial backlog for upkeep and improvements

By Funeral Director Daily | March 25, 2024

    Kansas United States Senator Jerry Moran recently testified at a United States Senate Veterans Affairs Committee meeting that “When mourning a death the last thing a grieving family needs is some bureaucratic hurdle…

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Looking outside the grave for cemetery revenue

By Funeral Director Daily | March 21, 2024

      Back almost three years ago in July 2021, Funeral Director Daily brought you this story of how a renewable energy company, Verogy, had put a 7,000 panel solar energy farm inside a…

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Well intentioned rules and regulations need to be thought through, clarified

By Funeral Director Daily | March 20, 2024

    Well-intentioned rules and regulations are put into place by organizations.  Sometimes, however, like America has found out with the disastrous “de-fund the police” movement, the results are not what the organizers intended them…

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CREMATION

Well intentioned rules and regulations need to be thought through, clarified

By Funeral Director Daily | March 20, 2024

    Well-intentioned rules and regulations are put into place by organizations.  Sometimes, however, like America has found out with the disastrous “de-fund the police” movement, the results are not what the organizers intended them…

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Permanent Memorialization: How long is “Permanent”?

By Funeral Director Daily | February 29, 2024

      How long is “Permanent”?  That is a question that has never been answered, but in many cases you will find out that “permanent” is not really “permanent”.   There is an interesting…

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Are you registered for CANA’s “Thinking Green” cremation symposium?

By Funeral Director Daily | January 8, 2024

  It is a only a little more than a month away. . . .are you ready to attend?  The “It” I’m referring to is the “Thinking Green” Cremation Symposium hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada,…

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PRENEED

“Preneed” or “Funeral Contribution Funds”

By Funeral Director Daily | March 4, 2024

    There is an old saying that goes, “You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink”.  I think that the meaning of that phrase, in human terms is something…

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Who will be the “Disruptive Force” in Death Care?

By Funeral Director Daily | February 28, 2024

    About a month ago I read this article from Yahoo Finance titled, “Retail employees are working fewer hours.  Here’s why that is a risk to the economy”.  While the article was good and…

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Can Preneed lead funeral homes forward

By Funeral Director Daily | January 16, 2024

If you operate or work at a funeral home you know that there is a lot of change going on. . . . .Let’s see, there is less church membership leading to less church services. …

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PRODUCTS

Looking outside the grave for cemetery revenue

By Funeral Director Daily | March 21, 2024

      Back almost three years ago in July 2021, Funeral Director Daily brought you this story of how a renewable energy company, Verogy, had put a 7,000 panel solar energy farm inside a…

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“See No Fees” looks to funeral industry for growth

By Funeral Director Daily | March 15, 2024

    If you are an independent funeral home owner you know it is not all about just being a great funeral director and/or embalmer anymore. You need to be a solid business-person and understand…

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Will Prelude be the product?

By Funeral Director Daily | March 8, 2024

      I’m always searching the web for things that might be tied in to the funeral/cremation or greater Death Care business world.  Just the other day I came across a website for a…

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