funeral business
News broke late last week that the Schoedinger Funeral & Cremation Service, based in Columbus, Ohio, has entered into a sale agreement with Service Corporation International (SCI) of Houston, Texas. According to this article from the Columbus Dispatch, SCI’s closing on the ownership interest will happen this week. Schoedinger, founded in 1855 and in its…
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A New Hampshire community has again delayed – until at least Spring 2022 – the decision on an ordinance to allow “Green Burials” in two city owned cemeteries. The City Manager of Lebanon City, New Hampshire, Shaun Mulholland, was quoted in this article from Valley News as saying, “This has gone on for two years…
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Funeral Director Daily’s morning message was one that its essence pointed out that in business, businesses will prosper best if the management and the employees can be on the same page. With that in mind we bring you the following Webinar entitled “The Future of Work — What comes Next”. We believe that this webinar…
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I’m a baseball fan. . . have been since I served as Batboy for the local town team when I was about eight years old. I was fortunate enough to get to see my Minnesota Twins baseball team win the 7th game of the 1987 World Series in Minneapolis. So, it won’t surprise you that…
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I graduated from mortuary school in 1980. It seems to me that life was a little easier back then, traditions were pretty normalized, and funeral services consisted of a pretty “run of the mill” body preparation-visitation-funeral service-burial logistic sequence. Of course, prior to that service sequence a funeral director had to also meet with the…
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Just perfect to leave you with for this weekend is access to this podcast from Let’s Get Social entitled “How the funeral industry is using social media effectively”. It comes to us from one of our readers in Ireland who sent us the access information along with this note: “I co-host a social media for…
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The Cremation Association of North America (CANA) says the 2020 cremation rate in the United States was 56.1%. That same reliable group says that within the next decade – in 2030 – the national cremation rate will rise to 72.8%. Considering the fact that the vast majority of cremations in the United States do not…
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Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC) released this press release earlier in November which memorialized their operations for the 3rd Quarter of 2021 as well as the first nine-months of 2021. The Utah based company operates in three business segments with one of those segments being what they call their Memorial Segment. For the nine months…
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Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), the Canadian based funeral and cemetery operator announced in this press release yesterday that they had entered the state of Georgia with an agreement to purchase the Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory located in Cumming, Forsythe County. The press release stated that the acquisition is scheduled to close in December of…
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The other day I came across this article from a publication called Mic. The article was entitled, “I feel like a Survivor – inside the Funeral Industry’s 2021 National Convention”. To say the article was interesting. . .and even somewhat eye-opening might actually be an understatement. You can read the article here. The article is…
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