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Funeral Directors: Take care, stay safe, and God Bless the work you do

By Funeral Director Daily / March 27, 2020 /

As we move into the weekend of this strange world we seem to be living in now, I could find any of 50 articles that tell how funeral directors need to be up to the challenge or how funeral homes may suffer financial hits because of the lack of “gatherings” that are allowed to take…

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Will this current challenge change funeral service

By Funeral Director Daily / March 25, 2020 /

Unlike many of you who are a lot younger than I am, I no longer am responsible for working day after day and am no longer responsible for making the everyday decisions of businesses that I was in charge of in the past.  What that really means right now is that while I salute you…

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StoneMor bucks the system

By Funeral Director Daily / March 23, 2020 /

Those of us who have watched the markets over the last few weeks have seen a deterioration in the value of our private investment portfolios.  What has happened in the broader market is also indicative of what has happened in the death care industry with the exception of StoneMor, Inc. and its stock and valuation.…

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A funeral business advantage

By Funeral Director Daily / March 17, 2020 /

During my high school summers I worked for a furniture store delivering furniture.  One of the things that I came to realize during that time was the concept of warranties and just how much it mattered in that business. The owner of the furniture store and the sales reps sold furniture not only with the…

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Higgins-Reardon Funeral Homes open new chapel in Salem

By Funeral Director Daily / March 16, 2020 /

A byline out of Salem, Ohio, in the Morning Journal announced the opening of a new funeral home in Salem by Higgins-Reardon Funeral Home and Cremation Services.  According to that article that you can read here, the company purchased an old bank building, that was originally built as a Friendly’s restaurant, and has remodeled it…

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Carriage Services’ Mel Payne “We went big, we went bold, we went long term”

By Funeral Director Daily / March 12, 2020 /

We reported back in February on Carriage Services’ 2019 4th Quarter and their 2019 year end report.  We told you at that time we would be listening for their Earnings Call and would eventually report on that as well.  You can access the entire earnings call from this web page.  Here are some interesting comments…

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Funeral director employment. . . where are we at? What can we do?

By Funeral Director Daily / March 9, 2020 /

A couple of things have happened in the last week that made me wonder about the state of employment in the funeral director world.  In the past week I just happened to meet a gentleman, whom I’m guessing is in his early 30’s.  Sitting next to this gentleman at a coffee shop I learned that…

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Cemetery clean up — Is there a perfect way to notify families?

By Funeral Director Daily / March 6, 2020 /

We bring you this article from the Longview (TX) News Journal that deals with the clean up of two cemeteries in the city.  The cemeteries are both owned by Service Corporation International and the news article deals with some families dismay that they believe that they were not properly notified of the clean up. According…

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Human composting bill introduced in New York

By Funeral Director Daily / March 5, 2020 /

Last year the state of Washington became the first in the nation to legalize human disposition by human composting or recomposition, as it has been termed.  That law allows the process starting on May 1 of this year. Since that news broke we know of efforts in Colorado to move recomposition forward.  We also know…

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Another unique start up

By Funeral Director Daily / March 5, 2020 /

Last November we brought you this article which told of a trend setting funeral establishment in London created by restauranteer Oliver Peyton, branded “Exit Here”.  It comes from an idea that Peyton had to provide more choice and fashion to death care arrangements in a rapidly increasing secularized Great Britain. Today we bring you another…

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