crematory

Foundation Partners adds New Mexico locations

By Funeral Director Daily / January 13, 2021 /

It didn’t take long into 2021 to hear of news on the acquisition front.  This press release will tell you of the Foundation Partners Group (FPG) acquisition of three funeral homes in New Mexico. According to the press release the company acquired the Riverside Funeral Homes located in Albuquerque, Los Lunas, and Santa Fe, New…

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Will we see shifts in funeral home employment post-pandemic?

By Funeral Director Daily / December 14, 2020 /

I’ll tell you right away that this is one of those articles I write that you probably won’t get any answers from.  As a matter of fact, I hope you go away from today’s article asking questions and thinking about the future.  It’s the kind of article that I like writing, though . . .…

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Foundation Partners Group adds Florida funeral homes

By Funeral Director Daily / December 10, 2020 /

Earlier this week Foundation Partners Group, the Orlando based funeral home, crematory, and cemetery operator announced that it had purchased a company that operated three locations in Southwest Florida.  You can read the press release on the acquisition here. Foundation Partners Group announced that it had acquired the Akin-Davis Funeral Homes.  They also announced that…

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What to do with unclaimed cremation remains

By Funeral Director Daily / November 9, 2020 /

The article that I just read was all about Cremation #17263 that was left at the York, Nebraska, non-profit known as Blue Valley Community Action of York.  The cardboard box was left at a drop there in the middle of the night. It was discovered, according to the article you can read here, by volunteer…

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Black smoke rising. . . bad PR for crematories

By Funeral Director Daily / October 1, 2020 /

In the last couple of weeks we have seen headlines and television news stories about black smoke rising from crematory exhaust stacks.  This article and news video from WSVN of Miami, Florida, shows what appears to be a problem from a crematory near the community’s Little Havana neighborhood. Steven Bedoya, an environmental specialist supervisor of…

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Afternoon edition: How COVID is changing funeral services, death in a Columbian cemetery, and more

By Funeral Director Daily / August 13, 2020 /

There is no doubt that COVID-19 and the rules around social distancing are causing funeral homes and cemeteries to do the tasks required of them differently.  Today we share some of those subtleties and not so subtle aspects from Australia and America’s west coast funeral homes. We also have a story on how the disease…

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Matthews Memorialization segment shows revenue gains in 3Q 2020

By Funeral Director Daily / August 4, 2020 /

Matthews International, which operates on a fiscal year that begins on October 1 each year, released earnings reports last week.  The company has three operating segments and the one that is of interest to those of us in the death care profession is what Matthews refers to as its “Memorialization Segment”. Matthews Memorialization Segment consists…

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Afternoon edition: Funeral director becomes WNBA’s all-time leading rebounder

By Funeral Director Daily / July 30, 2020 /

We’ve got plenty of stories to tell you this afternoon, however, we felt that “topping our charts” was this article from ESPN.com that that chronicles a Tuesday night game in which  WNBA player Sylvia Fowles became the all-time leading rebounder in the history of that basketball league.  Sports leading Funeral Director Daily headlines?? The fact…

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Judge overturns crematory variance, what’s coming up in our profession

By Funeral Director Daily / July 27, 2020 /

Today’s afternoon edition tells of a Dayton, Ohio, decision by a judge that overturns a variance needed to operate a crematory.  Funeral Director Daily will also give you news of a large funeral home acquisition of six Ohio mortuaries.  Finally, we’ve got some other stories and a listing of some of the events for learning…

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Afternoon edition. . .heavy on cemetery news

By Funeral Director Daily / July 7, 2020 /

The afternoon edition of Funeral Director Daily weighs heavily with cemetery related news.  Let’s see. . . .we’ve got a name change, a cemetery hoping to receive historical certification, and a cemetery where Action News Troubleshooters tells of a cemetery where it took some time, but eventually, the consumer was taken care of.  Medway Cemetery…

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