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Woman Shares Lessons from Growing Up in a Funeral Home, Says Job Is About More Than 'Death and Dying' (Exclusive)

Eileen Hollis is preparing to take over as director of her family's funeral home in Syracuse, N.Y. Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...
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Funeral Director, Who Felt Death Was Her 'Calling' at 16, Breaks Down Biggest Misconceptions About Her Job (Exclusive)

Melissa Schmidt handles body removal, embalming, preparation and casketing in her role as a funeral director on Long Island Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She covers ...
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Chiefs Jawaan Taylor helps brother's funeral home business dream a reality

Full video: Watch the full interview with Jawaan Taylor and his family on our YouTube Channel Wendy Taylor will never forget that one, lazy Saturday morning more than two decades ago when her then ...
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What it was like to work at one of America’s most notorious funeral homes

It’s been more than seven years since the FBI raided a Montrose funeral home, kicking off one of the more harrowing true-crime stories in recent American history. Investigators unspooled a macabre, ...