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For almost 35 years I went about doing my job as an owner/operator of a mortuary. I answered calls, I did some embalmings, I met with families, and I conducted thousands of funerals. I know that by my nature that I am a “people pleaser” and I always strived to please everyone whom I was…
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I believe that I’m now in my 8th month of living in the COVID world. And, in that world a lot has changed about how I do things. Even with the change, however, things seem to be slowly returning to normal in my state of Minnesota. Our students are in school, our high school football…
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There is no doubt that one of the costs that funeral homes have encountered in the past six months of the COVID world we find ourselves living in is cleaning and disinfecting the funeral home real estate. We’ve been told that sometimes it is even hard to find a commercial service that has an opening…
Read MoreWe’ve got plenty of stories to tell you this afternoon, however, we felt that “topping our charts” was this article from ESPN.com that that chronicles a Tuesday night game in which WNBA player Sylvia Fowles became the all-time leading rebounder in the history of that basketball league. Sports leading Funeral Director Daily headlines?? The fact…
Read MoreAs we head into this Father’s Day weekend we share some information on a webinar for NFDA members next week, an article from Smithsonian Magazine dealing with a lost African American cemetery discovered under a development in Florida, and some perspective from Caleb Wilde entitled “12 things my Father taught me about being a funeral…
Read MoreIt was in church this morning – yes, I’m writing this on Sunday and I was in church attendance today for the third consecutive week – that I caught an idea for a blog article. We live in Minnesota and church attendance, with certain rules, has been in effect for three weeks. The spiritual realm…
Read MoreAs I dwell on what is going on currently – such as the market rebounding to its past level, businesses opening up across the country, and school administrators deciding on how to safely open up for classes in the Fall, I cannot help but wonder if the funeral profession will have ramifications because of the…
Read MoreFuneral Director Daily today brings you a rare weekend edition of our news blog. We do so simply because one of the webinars available through the National Funeral Directors Association is on Monday morning and we wanted you to have ample time to consider registering and blocking off an hour of your morning to watch,…
Read MoreWe are taking the tact of getting out this information item early in the morning on Friday passing on some news that you can use. Just yesterday we learned that the fine folks at Johnson Consulting Group were hosting an informative webinar today, Friday, May 1. We wanted to get the link to the registration…
Read MoreEarlier this week a national reporter called me to ask some questions about COVID-19 and how it might relate to the funeral industry as more and more deaths occur. My prediction on the services front was that even if we hit the range of 100,000 to 240,000 deaths that the administration is now predicting, that…
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