NORTHFIELD, Ohio (CBS Local)-- If you are looking for a new way to memorialize loved ones who have passed, you may want to contact a father/son duo of morticians in Ohio. Michael Sherwood and his son ...
MULLINS, S.C. (AP) — When the last mourners departed and funeral director Shawn Troy was left among the headstones, he wept alone. For five decades, the closing words at countless funerals in this ...
Historically, you’d usually only get a first-hand view of what a mortician gets up to when it’s your turn to be embalmed. But now, people are getting a behind-the-curtain look at the morbid profession ...
It’s often an early encounter with death that leads young people to become morticians. For Victor Sweeney, the moment came at age 4 when he ran across the street to visit his friend, Robby. Robby’s ...
SANTA ANA – Staci, Nicki, Jenna, Jane and Adriana – ordinary names, not-so-ordinary jobs. Meet the five women who embalm and prepare decedents for viewings at Fairhaven Memorial Park and Mortuary in ...
The new Investigation Discovery doc revisits how a Colorado mortician’s killing intersected with hidden relationships, missing money and a crime scene investigators believed was staged Christina ...
MORTICIAN Ken McKenzie is undertaking to put the fun in the funeral business. The Long Beach mortuary owner has created “Men of Mortuaries,” a full-color 2007 photo calendar designed to help bury the ...
ATLANTA - Leaders across metro Atlanta continue their calls for violence to end. New calls are coming from those who usually are called last to respond to the scene: morticians and funeral home ...
Youth violence touches many communities. But its impact on funeral directors is often overlooked. It's inevitavble that the profession will sometimes hit close to home. Black funeral professionals ...
MULLINS, S.C. (AP) — About 130 Black morticians have died of COVID-19 across the United States. The deaths are particularly notable because of the prominent role that funeral directors have long ...