funeral directors
I spent six years as a board member of the University of Minnesota, which comprises the 8th largest campus by enrollment in the United States counting over 55,000 students. During that tenure I spent two of those years as Chair of the Finance Committee and two years as Chair of the Mission Committee which deals…
In a press release received yesterday, that you can access here, it was announced that Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) has acquired Arrington Funeral Directors and Crematory of Jackson, Tennessee. The acquisition will add one free-standing funeral home to Park Lawn’s number of funeral homes. A search of the Park Lawn Corporation website shows this…
Compassion has always been present in the role of “Funeral Director”. This recent article on the Mortuary Science program at the University of Minnesota quotes Director Michael LuBrant as saying, “It’s such a unique field and it isn’t something a lot of people think of. . .” But LuBrant also says that the characteristics…
The longer we live, the more we learn about ourselves and others. As you may know my wife, Angie, and I winter for three months in Southwest Florida. This past week I’ve been alone as Angie each year takes a week or ten days to travel back to Minnesota to visit with her…
We’ve noticed at Funeral Director Daily that readership drops by about 33% in the last half of December. It was particularly noticeable this year as we reached a record of over 21,000 page views in November only to see the latter half of December come in with run-rates of page views at less than…
We all worry — probably too much. We worry about finances, we worry about weather, we worry about our children. Trust me, I think everybody worries a lot — like I said, probably too much. Over the past week I’ve had a couple of experiences that have made me want to count…
If you own, operate, or manage a funeral home or cemetery you get lots of advice — including from Funeral Director Daily at times. However, I’ve also learned over 40+ years of business ownership in various enterprises, that while it it good to consider all the advice you get, it is most of the…
A recent report (November 2025) from the State of New York Department of Health with the results of an audit “which covered April 2019 through November 2023, concluded that the state Department of Health and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene must improve oversight and coordination to address significant…
I recently came across this article from late October that was published in the Pine Knot News of northeastern Minnesota. The article is headlined “Director-less funeral home trims services“. I’m from Minnesota and know a little about northeastern Minnesota which is a large lumber and iron ore producing area. Generally, the communities are…
It’s Monday, October 27, and much of the Death Care universe is centered in Chicago, Illinois, attending the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) International Convention & Expo. I had my schedule of the convention mapped out and was looking forward to attending my friend Doug Gober’s session on “Customer Loyalty” this morning” and learning…
