Last week Tuesday, October 27, William C. Wappner, CFSP, was elected president of the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA). Wappner, owner of Wappner Funeral Directors in Mansfield, Ohio,...
The current recession is putting a strain on profitability and cash flow for all businesses, and funeral homes are no exception. To make matters worse, the availability of...
In an article released late Friday afternoon, Fox News writer John Brandon listed Funeral Webcasting as the Top Tech Trend for the upcoming year 2010. The two webcast...
AT a funeral directors? convention recently, I wandered around an exhibition floor crowded with the usual accouterments of the trade ? coffins, catafalques, cemetery tents, cremation furnaces and...
If it seemed like a rowdier week in the city of Boston than usual there was a good reason. The National Funeral Directors Association was holding its convention...
PHILADELPHIA ? It's that time of year when even cemetery guards are more easily spooked, on alert for signs of one of the oldest, most ghoulish and most...
Marilyn Monroe isn't getting a new neighbor anytime soon. The second auction of the marble mausoleum crypt above Monroe didn't fetch any bids, according to organizer Eric Gazin...
This is a pretty good question. I found this article while browsing the Walmart story online. What would your loved ones say if you told them they were...
A US deputy assistant attorney general who said he was on his lunch break when an officer found him with a stripper and sex toys in his sport...
It's hard to look at the video of investigators at Burr Oak Cemetery inspecting graves in the wake of the grave desecration scandal and not want to stop...