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Inside the Numbers at SCI

By Funeral Director Daily / August 3, 2018 /

Earlier this week Service Corporation International posted their 2nd Quarter results, which you can see in a company press release here, and we told you that we would analyze them and report our impressions. There is nothing that surprises us with the SCI results, more so, they reinforce what we believe is the direction of…

An Ancillary Opportunity for Your Funeral Home

By Funeral Director Daily / July 30, 2018 /

I started a weekday blog about 15 months ago with no subscribers and no real idea what I would be doing. Today, with just organic growth I have almost 500 free subscribers who receive my daily dose via e-mail and hundred of others who follow on Twitter and Facebook as well as those that just…

Cemetery sues city for Gross Abuse

By Funeral Director Daily / July 20, 2018 /

In what is a somewhat timely item for us at Funeral Director Daily, we learned yesterday of a lawsuit filed by suburban New York City cemetery, Ferncliff Cemetery, against the City of Greenburgh. Timely for us because this week we have highlighted zoning and location issues among the industry. The lawsuit, according to an article…

President Signs Bill for Expansion of Black Hills National Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / June 7, 2018 /

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…

Texas Cemetery Plans for the Future

By Funeral Director Daily / March 26, 2018 /

I recently read an article in GoSanAngelo.com that you can read here that dealt with the City of San Angelo and its future plans for the Fairmount City Cemetery. A couple of years ago a master plan was funded and that plan has indicated that the cemetery should capitalize on Fairmount’s assets and make the…

Landslide Causing Problems at SCI Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / March 13, 2018 /

According to an article in the West Virginia Herald-Dispatch that you can read here, excessive rainfall has caused problems at the Woodmere Cemetery in Huntington, WV. The cemetery is owned by Service Corporation International. The problem manifested itself about three weeks ago when excessive rainfall washed the back side of the cemetery onto Norway Avenue. …