funeral home

News you can use for the funeral profession

By Funeral Director Daily / May 1, 2020 /

We 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…

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Our colleagues and friends aiding the effort

By Funeral Director Daily / April 15, 2020 /

One of the great things in being part of the funeral, cremation, cemetery, and its supply business is that, as you work in it over time, you realize that it is a pretty small professional world and you get to know lots of people and lots of companies in the realm.  Also, you realize that…

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Do the Diligence. . . a cautionary tale

By Funeral Director Daily / February 25, 2020 /

Even before Robert Waltrip bought that second location in Houston in the early 1960’s there were lots of funeral homes that changed hands.  And, I’m guessing that over the years about 99% of those business transactions, especially the transferring of a funeral home to a new owner in a small community, went off without a…

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Making Aftercare work for you

By Funeral Director Daily / December 17, 2019 /

When you are the owner of a funeral home you have to have a plan for marketing the business.  Most funeral director proprietors think about their advertising, their on-line presence, and their pre-arrangement program as a way to market.  What many don’t think about, however, is that the services they provide after the funeral to…

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Massachusetts funeral director license suspended

By Funeral Director Daily / November 1, 2019 /

According to this article from the Telegram.com, long-time Worcester, Massachusetts funeral director Peter A. Stefan had has his license to operate suspended as of October 25.  Again, according to the article the suspension comes from a second inspection of his funeral home on October 23.  . the first inspection was on September 3. The article…

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Cemetery life: Halloween movie cancelled, lawsuit

By Funeral Director Daily / October 24, 2019 /

Today we decided that we would be light on the editorial topic and just present a couple of short news articles to our readers concerning issues in cemeteries across the country. The first article that we will furnish to our readers is here and concerns the Lafayette Memorial Park in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where a…

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Encouragement. . . You can all do it

By Funeral Director Daily / April 12, 2019 /

I left the world of full time everyday work about 5 years ago.  With that and my two boys growing up and somewhat out of the house as a college grad in the working world and the last one in college, I have found more time during the day to do things that I really…

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Is Your Funeral Home Ready for this Situation?

By Funeral Director Daily / July 13, 2017 /

On Sunday I heard of a potential hostage situation at a funeral home in Las Vegas.  According to the Las Vegas Review it was not a hostage situation but a situation of a man threatening to shoot himself inside the Davis Funeral Home in Las Vegas. Authorities were called to the funeral home, roads —…

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