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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The body of a 97-year-old woman, a former lifelong Warren resident who died in New York, was being transported from New York to Mount Olivet Cemetery in Detroit by a funeral director, police said in a release Thursday.
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Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2024
Philip Furman, a funeral director at the home, confirmed to the Associated Press that King was one of the victims who was shot at the West Nickel Mines Amish School in October 2006.
—Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
Ohio funeral director Jeff Edwards asked Bio-Response to provide him with a machine in 2010 and started offering aquamation to his clients early in 2011.
—New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2024
Farmer noted that funeral directors perform some 2.4 million funerals each year — and the vast majority of them never result in headlines.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
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Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2024
Philip Furman, a funeral director at the home, confirmed to the Associated Press that King was one of the victims who was shot at the West Nickel Mines Amish School in October 2006.
—Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
Ohio funeral director Jeff Edwards asked Bio-Response to provide him with a machine in 2010 and started offering aquamation to his clients early in 2011.
—New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2024
Farmer noted that funeral directors perform some 2.4 million funerals each year — and the vast majority of them never result in headlines.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
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