Innovative approach to bad weather for funeral homes

Snowstorms have hit East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia with unexpected weather and delayed businesses, government, and schools from opening. One thing though that cannot be delayed is the death of a loved one. Funeral homes must find ways to provide their services even in the worst of weather. Typically arrangements are made shortly after the passing and services scheduled. When fowl weather hits unexpectedly causing a delay in a public visitation or service there has not been a good way to notify those attending outside of the immediate family. Sure we publish another update in the newspaper obituaries however those wishing to attend have to wait till its printed to find out there has been a change.

Trinity Memorial Centers Funeral Home has a computer programmer on staff. Seeing first hand how there wasn’t an existing solution we have created an innovative approach to notifications. Taking the opportunity for a few hours when we were snowed in we wrote software to create the Funeral Text Alerts System. This system is part of our expanding line of software internally written to make funeral homes more efficient. Those wishing to attend a service can signup on the obituary page on Trinity Memorials Funeral Home website. It’s not just for bad weather either, often times you will see an incomplete obituary notice where arrangements haven’t been made yet, now you can signup and be notified when arrangements are announced. The system is part of a funeral management software package we are developing for funeral homes across America to utilize.

It’s just another way Trinity Memorial Centers Funeral Home utilize technology to provide better services and stay on the cutting edge of the funeral industry.