National Funeral Directors Association
In today’s Afternoon Edition we bring you information from some of our colleagues in the death care industry. We have news from the National Funeral Directors Association about their upcoming national convention as well as three new podcasts from them that you might find interesting. We also have news from some of our business associates…
Read MoreIn this day and age it seems that when you are reading a newspaper or watching television for the news, it is not only enough to read or watch, but you may find it necessary to know the political persuasion of the entity presenting the news to get an accurate read on it. You have…
Read MoreIn this press release from the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) we learned that Chris E. Christian and Beatrice “Bea” Lewanduski were elected to serve two-year terms on the NFDA Board of Directors. According to the press release Christian is the co-owner of Christian-Sells Funeral Home in Rogersville, Tennessee. The release also states that Lewanduski…
Read MoreToday’s afternoon edition tells of a Dayton, Ohio, decision by a judge that overturns a variance needed to operate a crematory. Funeral Director Daily will also give you news of a large funeral home acquisition of six Ohio mortuaries. Finally, we’ve got some other stories and a listing of some of the events for learning…
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 MoreOver thirty-five years as an owner operator of a community funeral home I made hundreds of business decisions. Some were easy, some were hard, some worked out, some didn’t. The one common denominator is that I did my research and thought that I was doing the right thing to either help the community or gain…
Read MoreWhen I was younger the election night banter we always heard was as the title of this article, “As Maine Goes. . . So Goes the Nation”. What it meant under those circumstances was that the State of Maine had an uncanny history of always selecting the Presidential candidate correctly, so the commentators pointed out…
Read MoreIn looking for material for a column today I came across articles on funeral home/cemetery zoning issues. What peaked my interest was the idea that death care businesses could be on differing sides of zoning debates. I find that somewhat interesting. The first article that you can read here is an issue that we have…
Read MoreThe lead article in yesterday’s Sunday Minneapolis Star Tribune was entitled, “As Churches Close, a Way of Life Fades”. It is an excellent article on the path our nation, and by the graph I’ve put with this article, other nations are heading with church membership. You can read the article here. Funeral Director Daily take: …
Read MoreToday we bring you this article with multiple photos and a news video from Portland, Oregon television station KOIN. It concerns the First Call Mortuary Services of Portland and the problems they have recently had with emissions from their crematory. According to the article the mortuary service has had at least 21 cases of dark,…
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