obituaries
We learned of an upcoming webinar that will feature Death Care experts Ryan Thogmartin and John Heald. Legacy.com’s Heald will be joined by Connecting Directors’ Thogmartin and they will discuss how to unwrap the features of Legacy.com for your funeral home. Among other things you can expect to learn you will learn:…
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According to SimilarWeb, Legacy.com had its website visited over 49 million times in April 2022 and ranked as the #1 website in its category of interest, Community and Society, in the United States. Again, according to SimilarWeb, the company increased its reach by 4.77% over the month of March 2022. With those kind of numbers…
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This has got to be a common problem as America gets more and more transient in regards to moving to different locations and moving away from home. Last week I had heard that “John”, a neighbor at our lake cabin, had passed away at his home in suburban Minneapolis/St. Paul. I wanted to find out…
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Do you ever read obituaries of strangers? I do and I’ve learned a lot from them. You might find this strange, but I’ve learned many life lessons from reading obituaries of strangers. One thing I know is that I’ve learned to be a better father. For the past several years I’ve picked out a couple…
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I recently read an article published online from GoLocalProv. You can find the article here and it is entitled, “GoLocal now top publisher of obituaries in Rhode Island, 94% of funeral homes partner for “No Cost” obits”. It made me think of the differences in what I would call death notices, obituaries, and online memorials. …
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I served as a funeral director in a small town and when somebody died, the news got out. There can be a difference between a death notice and an obituary or an obituary can serve as both. In America we have closed over 2,000 newspapers since the year 2000 and many communities no longer have…
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago I wrote a column for Funeral Director Daily entitled, “How will we transform”? The article was based on the fact that Hillenbrand Industries, parent company of Batesville Casket Company, knows that its casket business will not be its bread and butter forever, and is transforming itself over time to a…
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