funeral homes
I happened to look at the cash sitting in my Money Market account the other day and noticed I was receiving more interest than I had been recently. I took out my calculator and realized that my John Hancock Money Market account was paying me 3% interest. For savers, that’s the upside of the Federal…
Read MoreJoe Redling led cemetery and funeral home operator StoneMor through a time of transition. That transition culminated with the public company being taken private in a buy-out from Axar Capital Management in early November 2022. While the company is now a private enterprise concern and Funeral Director Daily has no access to its financial operations,…
Read MoreI was on my way to a local chapter board meeting of Junior Achievement on Friday morning and listening to business radio. It was at that time that the Producer Price Index (PPI) for the month of November was announced as well as was the PPI for the service industry. Just for the record, the…
Read MorePart of what I’ve always done is watch the trends. I wasn’t the first to put a crematory in my funeral home, but I did see the trends and was the first in my county to do so. I also wasn’t the first funeral home to add staff to concentrate on preneed funeral planning and…
Read MoreI recently read this story in the Buffalo (NY) News that is entitled, “Two men planned what would happen after their deaths. Why did they end up in unmarked graves?” The story documents the plights of two men who, by most death care experts opinion, did everything that they should have done about their future deaths…
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