death care
Last week funeral service and cemetery consolidator and operator Carriage Services, based in Houston, Texas, reported 4th Quarter and Year End results for 2019. They also provided commentary on how they believe that the company will move in the next three years. I will provide some factual information in this report but also my…
Read MoreGlen Davis drove school bus in his small Minnesota community for 55 years. Starting in 1949 he was still driving and finally retired in 2005. By that time he was driving the grandchildren of those school children he had driven in 1949. And, Glen Davis was like a lot of people small town funeral directors…
Read MoreI receive a periodic e-mail update from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and in today’s update noticed an article about the United States Census looking to hire military veterans to work during the 2020 census. I am passing this on simply because I know funeral directors in communities know their veteran populations. Maybe our…
Read MoreMany of you who work in the death care business may know Jim Price. Jim comes from a funeral service family and has worked full-time in the death care space for almost 50 years. I met Jim about 30 years ago at a funeral profession golf event and have seen him annually for almost each…
Read MoreMembers of the death care media were informed yesterday via press release that the CEO and Chairman of Toronto based Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), Andrew Clark, would be stepping down as Chairman and CEO of the company. You can read the press release here. The release quoted Clark as saying, “It has been a tremendous…
Read MoreEven though yesterday was the President’s Day holiday and the markets were closed across America, Service Corporation International took the opportunity to report their financial numbers for the 4th Quarter of 2019 and also for the Year End 2019. We will just report some of the numbers today and after we have a chance to…
Read MoreIt is always sad to see when fire destroys any business, but for us in the funeral business it is heartbreaking to see our colleagues go through something that we hope never happens to us. Over the weekend we learned of February fires that destroyed at least two of our colleagues places of business. This…
Read MoreChalk this incident up to “This should never happen” but it did. In this article from the Bucks County Courier Times of Pennsylvania we learn of the tale of Richard Geisinger who died in 2013. The article tells the story of how Mr. Geisinger, who had pre-arrangements for a casketed burial, was instead cremated and…
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