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Black smoke rising. . . bad PR for crematories

By Funeral Director Daily / October 1, 2020 /

In the last couple of weeks we have seen headlines and television news stories about black smoke rising from crematory exhaust stacks.  This article and news video from WSVN of Miami, Florida, shows what appears to be a problem from a crematory near the community’s Little Havana neighborhood. Steven Bedoya, an environmental specialist supervisor of…

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Afternoon Edition: Who’s cleaning your funeral home

By Funeral Director Daily / September 30, 2020 /

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…

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Arlington Cemetery Part 3: A personal story

By Funeral Director Daily / September 30, 2020 /

When I researched and wrote a story about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg being buried at Arlington National Cemetery little did I know it would lead to a Three-part series with Funeral Director Daily.  However, the story triggered some memories in my life on what I knew about Arlington and, in today’s article, how I as…

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Afternoon Edition: A hodgepodge of news

By Funeral Director Daily / September 29, 2020 /

In today’s Afternoon Edition of Funeral Director Daily we bring you a “hodgepodge” of news stories.  I’m not so sure that I know what “hodgepodge” means, but I’ve heard it used in situations where nothing seems to be relevant to anything else.  . . . And, that is kind of how our death care news…

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Joe Louis and Arlington National Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / September 29, 2020 /

We gave a little history on Arlington National Cemetery in yesterday’s edition of Funeral Director Daily.  As a follow-up to that I promised a little more today. I had always heard that the eligibility requirements for interment in Arlington National Cemetery  were more stringent than in the other Veteran’s National Cemeteries scattered across the country.…

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Afternoon Edition: Insurance Survey says pandemic has changed needs

By Funeral Director Daily / September 28, 2020 /

Among the articles that we feature in today’s Afternoon Edition is a press release from the Unum Company.  Unum, an insurance company, says in this release that the coronavirus pandemic has changed insurance needs of families. The results of their survey indicated that 41% of Americans say that the pandemic has changed the way that…

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Justice Ginsburg to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery

By Funeral Director Daily / September 28, 2020 /

Late last week when Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s body was being removed from Statutory Hall at the United States Capitol I heard that her body would be interred this week at Arlington National Cemetery.  As a person who loves the history, majesty, and ceremony that is Arlington National Cemetery, I wondered a little…

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Foundation Partners adds Kentucky locations

By Funeral Director Daily / September 25, 2020 /

Foundation Partners Group, the Orlando based company that has grown by acquisition to over 140 locations of funeral homes, cremation centers, and cemeteries across the United States announced earlier this week that they had acquired the Clark Legacy Center of Kentucky. According to this press release from Foundation Partners, the acquisition will add three locations…

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Afternoon Edition: “Get to Know Them” – Bob Heidlage

By Funeral Director Daily / September 24, 2020 /

Today’s “Get to Know Them” article features Bob Heidlage of Global Recruiters of Cincinnati..  I know Bob only from his kind comments that he passed on to me about his daily reading of Funeral Director Daily.  From those comments I wanted to know more about him and his link to the death care profession.  From…

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Come together . . . . .The Domani Group and Homesteaders Life Company

By Funeral Director Daily / September 24, 2020 /

The other day we received a press release announcing that “The Domani Group joins forces with Homesteaders Life Company”.  In that release, which you can read here, it announced “The Domani Group, a leader in preneed and aftercare solutions for funeral homes, is pleased to announce it is joining forces with Homesteaders Life Company.”   This…

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