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I wrote on Monday about the change in the “place of death”. In that article I pointed out that in the early 1900s people tended to die at home and much of the funeral experience was then held in the home. While I never did it, I am old enough to have had funeral directors…
Read MoreIn a press release from Foundation Partners Group (FPG) that is dated December 31, 2019, but not known by us until January 2, 2020, we have learned that the company has made an acquisition in Tucson, Arizona which includes the Adair Funeral Homes and Desert Sunset Funeral Home of that area. You can read the…
Read MoreToronto based funeral home and cemetery operator Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) announced in a press release on January 2, 2020, that they had acquired two businesses under common control in Tennessee. In this release PLC announced that they had purchased the stock and membership interests of Family Legacy, LLC and WG-TN, LLC (Harpeth Hills Funeral…
Read MoreThere has been a lot of news in the death care profession in 2019. There is always the finance news and what is happening with the public companies on the merger and acquisition front. And, this year we are seeing the fight that StoneMor Partners is putting up to try to become relevant in the…
Read MoreI came across this article last week which describes the work of Victor Sweeney as the single funeral director in the rural Minnesota town of Warren. Sweeney describes what he does and why he loves taking care of people at the time of death. The article also goes into the state of the profession in…
Read MoreWe learned last week that one of the northwest United States premier funeral home families has decided to cast their lot with Foundation Partners Group (FPG). Musgrove Family Mortuaries and Cemeteries, based in Eugene, Oregon, announced last week that they had been acquired by FPG. You can see the press release from Foundation Partners Group…
Read MoreI operated a small town funeral home for about 35 years. Every year I completed budgets and put expectations on the number of death calls the firm would do as well as predicted our market share in the community. I was tough with myself. . . .I had high expectations. Fortunately, I operated in a…
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