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Maine veterans’ cemetery going green

By Funeral Director Daily / September 23, 2019 /

A project set to begin this fall for 554 pre-placed crypts at the Southern Maine Veterans’ Cemetery will also include 234 “green burial” graves that will be created. According to this article from the Journal Times, cemetery superintendent Scott Brown commented that, “It will be the first state (veterans) cemetery in the nation to have…

Death Care around the world

By Funeral Director Daily / September 19, 2019 /

Every once in a while we like to just bring our readers news from around the world of Death Care. And, today, our news around the world of death care is truly from around the world. The following articles bring news from three continents — from North America we bring you news of funeral home…

Dillinger may not be exhumed after all

By Funeral Director Daily / September 13, 2019 /

Last month we brought you this story that pertained to the exhumation of a legendary bank robber who was at one time known as “Public Enemy #1”. We refer to the life and death of John Dillinger and his eventual burial at the Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana. We told you last month that…

Grave robbery. . . the 21st century way

By Funeral Director Daily / September 6, 2019 /

“Members of a nonprofit Queens cemetery board plundered its coffers and made off with money meant to keep the burial grounds running” according to a suit filed by the New York Attorney General. . . . is how this article from the New York Post begins. According to the article the suit goes on to…

Keeping your funeral home from “Secular Decline”

By Funeral Director Daily / September 5, 2019 /

As we move into the Fall season in Minnesota the weather turns a little cooler and I’m forced to do my daily running and exercise routine inside on the treadmill instead of outside on the streets. One of the advantages of this, however, is that I can tune in the television and learn something while…

Marketing: Top of Mind Awareness

By Funeral Director Daily / August 26, 2019 /

Over the years I learned a lot about marketing. When sales reps for different advertising mediums came into our business to either sell or re-new our programs I always looked at them as extensions of our business and not sales people. I figured that if I could learn from them I could use that knowledge…

Arizona city to sell cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / August 15, 2019 /

This is an interesting news story because it seems so many times we have published stories about cemeteries asking to be taken over by cities or other municipal agencies because they could no longer make a profit. We noticed this story, that you can read here, about the City of Glendale, Arizona, planning to sell…

Cemeteries — merge to survive?

By Funeral Director Daily / August 2, 2019 /

An article in Pennsylvania’s Morning Call that you can read here gave an indication that two historical and prominent cemeteries in Easton, Pennsylvania, are on the verge of merging together to save costs, simply to survive economic hardships. Easton Cemetery, a 90 acre cemetery that has been open for 170 years and Easton Heights Cemetery,…

Earnings week fast upon us. . . DCI moving up

By Funeral Director Daily / July 17, 2019 /

If you follow Wall Street and the American stock market you will know that we are in the period of the summer where public companies start to report their earnings as of June 30. For most of the companies who operate on a calendar year this is their 2nd Quarter results and gives investors a…

When to hold ’em, when to fold ’em and the acquisition movement

By Funeral Director Daily / July 10, 2019 /

Last week I read this article from the Minneapolis Star Tribune focused on the Fortune 500 company, General Mills. General Mills is a Minneapolis based company – and has been for a long time – which leads to much media coverage for them in the state of Minnesota. The article pertained to the fact that…