as in undertaker
a person who manages funerals and prepares the dead for burial or cremation
the funeral director instructed the pallbearers on how to proceed
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Recent Examples of funeral director
They’re cast in bronze statues, memorialized on plaques, etched into gravestones, honored through a park, place or building name, smiling up from the laminated cards funeral directors provide at services, or seen in other ways.
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Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 24 Nov. 2024
The complaint identifies Easton as a retired municipal judge, Green as an attorney, Ornstein as a firefighter and Stewart as a funeral director.
—Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
Instead, this hot funeral director stumbled into a perfect storm of bad communication, miserable shopping trips, and unnecessarily awkward conversations about money.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2024
Working as a funeral director in a small town
In 2014, Sweeney accepted a job as funeral director at the DuBore Funeral Home in Warren, Minnesota, a small 1,600-person town 70 miles south of the Canadian border.
—Mike Winters,gene Kim, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024
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Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 24 Nov. 2024
The complaint identifies Easton as a retired municipal judge, Green as an attorney, Ornstein as a firefighter and Stewart as a funeral director.
—Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
Instead, this hot funeral director stumbled into a perfect storm of bad communication, miserable shopping trips, and unnecessarily awkward conversations about money.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2024
Working as a funeral director in a small town
In 2014, Sweeney accepted a job as funeral director at the DuBore Funeral Home in Warren, Minnesota, a small 1,600-person town 70 miles south of the Canadian border.
—Mike Winters,gene Kim, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024
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