funeral director

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 The equivalent Arizona funeral director’s board was disbanded in 2023, and licensing operations were assumed by the state Department of Health. Lane Sainty, Arizona Republic, 15 Feb. 2024 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. 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 See all Example Sentences for funeral director 

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“Funeral director.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funeral%20director. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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