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Welcoming a New Generation

  • By Patti Martin Bartsche

There was a time when the young Haisley-Wheeler (she married Chris Wheeler in 2011) had her eye on a completely different career path.

Doing the Right Thing

Doing the Right Thing

  • By Patti Martin Bartsche

The award, which the ICCFA calls its most prestigious, recognizes those who have demonstrate…

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Join us for a FREE virtual event on May 8 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST. Preneed Planning Symposium 2024, a virtual event designed for professionals eager to lead in preneed services. This symposium is your opportunity to refine your offerings, discover the latest trends, expand your network, and access valuable resources, all from the comfort of your home or office. Engage with top experts, understand the evolving needs of your clients, and harness the power of digital advancements and legal insights to elevate your practice. Join us to become a trendsetter in meeting the changing needs of today's families. Secure your spot today!

American Funeral Director

Ones to Watch 2024

Ones to Watch 2024

We're looking for the next generation of standout funeral directors. Do you know a mortuary student who shows special drive and promise? Someone poised to become a leader in the field? If you do, now's the time to nominate him or her for American Funeral Director's Ones to Watch.

Preneed Pro Tips: 5 Pillars of Preneed

Preneed Pro Tips: 5 Pillars of Preneed

My answer usually comes as no surprise: all the above. The preneed pipeline is complex, with several key components that all need to connect. You might even think of preneed as its own divisio…

5 Tips for a Better Night’s Sleep

5 Tips for a Better Night’s Sleep

This one little thing that we do each night has such profound effects on our lives, I’m surprised more doctors don’t write it on a prescription pad every time we go in for a visit.

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Welcoming a New Generation

Although Quinn Haisley-Wheeler is the daughter of a funeral director, it was never a given she would follow in her father’s footsteps.

American Funeral Director's Innovators 2023

Funeral service is filled with extraordinary businesses. The name of a business, though, only begins to tell its story. Behind the names are talented, passionate and dedicated individuals helping that business succeed. Meet the innovators who are making their mark in funeral service today, tomorrow and beyond.

American Cemetery & Cremation

To Tree Or Not To Tree

To Tree Or Not To Tree

At first established outside of settlements, many cemeteries are now surrounded by dense urban infrastructure. Due to their abundant vegetation, such urban cemeteries can be viewed as atypical forms of green space. In our experience researching cemeteries as green spaces – in particular, as …

The Calm Within the Storm

The Calm Within the Storm

The respite of a picnic in the cemetery is the most – or only – Zen part of an annual weekend of macabre events in Aurora and the Denver area on the last week of May, coalescing around the mai…

Editor's Message

This month, many of us think of our mothers, the ones that raised us and the mythical one who can take care of us or take us to task depending on her whim – Mother Nature.

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The Rhododendrons Are Coming!

At Greendale Cemetery, come for the blooms, stay for the ... zippers? The big week was still nearly two months off, but blue skies and temperatures hinting of spring were enough to draw visitors, some walking dogs, others pushing strollers, many wearing earbuds for a brisk walk or jog through a cemetery that doubles in many ways as a city park

American Cemetery & Cremation Innovators 2023

Funeral service is filled with extraordinary businesses. The name of a business, though, only begins to tell its story. Behind the names are talented, passionate and dedicated individuals helping that business succeed. Meet the innovators who are making their mark in death care today, tomorrow and beyond.

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Funeral Service Insider

Big News Week

Big News Week

We prepare this newsletter a week in advance, so when more serious news breaks, we publish it online, either in the “Industry News” or in the “ICYMI” section of Kates-Boylston.com. This week we had the double whammy of the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Labor updating policie…

Calls for Natural Burial Answered

Calls for Natural Burial Answered

Residents of Montague, Massachusetts, have long sought green burial options, and on April 27 they got their wish with the unveiling of Highland Woods Natural Burial Ground.

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