funeral businesses
I think there is a lot to be said about “businesses serving their community” in appropriate ways. And, I think in funeral service as we move forward to more niche businesses that will become more and more evident. You can read in this article from the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber, how a funeral home and the…
Read MorePresident James Monroe was one of the founding father’s of American history and from 1817 to 1825 he served as the country’s 5th President. It was during his presidency that David Ross began building coffins in the Shanksville, Pennsylvania, area. The legacy of that business, the Deaner Funeral Home recently celebrated its 200th year of…
Read MoreI recently read an article published online from GoLocalProv. You can find the article here and it is entitled, “GoLocal now top publisher of obituaries in Rhode Island, 94% of funeral homes partner for “No Cost” obits”. It made me think of the differences in what I would call death notices, obituaries, and online memorials. …
Read MoreWe learned last week, and you can read more in in an article found on this page from Access Holdings, that the Baltimore based investment firm had secured $630 million in credit facilities to assist it as it goes forward in building out its platform of companies. As you may know, Access Holdings is the…
Read MoreIn a press release that you can read here you can find out that Houston, Texas, based funeral home and cemetery consolidator Carriage Services recorded record results not only for the 4th Quarter of 2020 but for the full year of 2020 as well. Not only did Carriage Services record these record financial results, they…
Read MoreOperating a funeral home and/or crematory operation as a business is an expensive proposition to start when you think of the fixed costs that it will take. It’s not like starting a lawn care service where you need some basic equipment and wait for the phone to ring to put it to use. In the…
Read MoreNew York United States Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced last week that it is her belief that consumer funeral cost relief is part of the $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill passed by both houses of congress and signed into law by President Trump in December. Here’s what Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez says in this article from Business Insider, …
Read MoreI’ve always had this habit of looking at a statement of fact, tried to look behind the numbers, and then tried to figure out how what I learned or discovered might help me in my funeral home business. When I operated my funeral business, I was concerned about giving great service to my client families,…
Read MoreToday we will bring you a couple of stories we recently saw in the news pertaining to some things that are happening with a couple of 2nd generation New York state family funeral home operators. The first story deals with 27-year old Ryan Frary and his purchase of the Stuart-Fortune-Keough Funeral Home in Tupper Lake,…
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