funeral businesses

Zen Center, funeral home share space

By Funeral Director Daily / October 22, 2021 /

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…

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Meet America’s seventh generation funeral firm, NextGen leadership survey

By Funeral Director Daily / August 16, 2021 /

President 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…

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Death notice, obituary, online memorial. . . . .which to use

By Funeral Director Daily / August 10, 2021 /

I 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. …

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Access Holdings raises $630 million for investment expansions

By Funeral Director Daily / March 25, 2021 /

We 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…

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Carriage Services reports 2020 year. . . shows the trends

By Funeral Director Daily / February 23, 2021 /

In 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…

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Going to extremes to lower overhead

By Funeral Director Daily / February 9, 2021 /

Operating 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…

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AOC says “Consumer funeral funding in current COVID relief package”

By Funeral Director Daily / January 29, 2021 /

New 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, …

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Learning from the secular “non-death care” world

By Funeral Director Daily / January 27, 2021 /

I’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,…

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2nd generation family members make their mark

By Funeral Director Daily / October 23, 2019 /

Today 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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