Funeral Home News & Editorial
FitzHenry Funeral Home sold to Forest Lawn
By The Desert Sun, Funeral Home News Feed
December 17, 2008
After more than 50 years of being family-run, FitzHenry Funeral Home at 82-975 Requa Ave. in downtown Indio is being sold to Forest Lawn Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, which has seven locations in Cathedral City and Palm Springs. Full story
Internet Primer For Funeral Directors
By Michael Billings, Computer Training
December 17, 2008
In the past three years there has been a significant jump in the number of funeral homes that have their own websites. A quick search for funeral homes in various states would indicate that a little less than fifty percent of funeral homes, based in the United States, have some sort of web presence. Based on the funeral home websites I've seen, most of them are throwing their money away for websites that are simply not doing what a website should do for their funeral home business. Full story
OBITHUB.COM: Free Funeral Home Websites
By Penny Virgulto, AP Technology Writer
November 17, 2008
NEW CASTLE, PA. - The folks at the OBITHUB Funeral Home Obituary System are now offering free websites to all of their full service funeral home clients. Full story
Nothing like fun at the old funeral home
By AP Feed, Funeral Home News
October 27, 2008
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - The owners of Endsley Funeral Home in Bartonville say they wanted to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the business by putting a little "fun" into "funeral." Full story
Web Designers for Funeral Homes Integrates Into OBITHUB
By Sandy Worthington, Funeral Home Software
October 22, 2008
LAVALLETTE, NJ. -- Affordable funeral home web designers FHCentral.com announced that it will be integrating it's funeral home websites into the OBITHUB Funeral Home Obituary System. Full story
Local Funeral Home May Be Immune To Economic Crisis
By WXII12.com, Funeral Home News
October 21, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- While the ups and downs of Wall Street have many businesses cutting jobs, there's one business that always seems to be hiring. Full story
City Council votes to rezone property for Carr-Yager funeral
By Elizabeth Lucas, The Missourian, Funeral Home News
October 21, 2008
COLUMBIA, MO. - The abandoned Church of God buildings on the corner of East Texas and North Garth avenues will finally become a funeral home, chapel and mortuary, thanks to the unanimous City Council decision on Monday night to rezone the property. Full story
New All-In-One Funeral Home Website System Released
By Michael Zelenevich, Web Products Editor
October 17, 2008
How much time do you spend writing and faxing obituaries to newspapers, waiting for the final proof to be fexed back to you from the newspapers, and then re-typing the finished obituary into your website program to get to your website? If you're like most of us, you don't even bother getting the obituary to your website because we simply don't have the time. Full story
Baby boomer deaths could fuel funeral industry
By MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press Writer
October 16, 2008
Because of the high startup costs of getting into the business, the surge of customers is expected to be served by roughly the same number of funeral homes as now. Dan Isard, whose Phoenix-based The Foresight Companies consults with funeral homes, says he expects the average funeral home to go from serving 120 families a year to 165, before the death rate drops off again around 2040. Full story