Director Spotlights
What Have I Gotten Myself Into? – Toby Sutton
Toby Sutton is an Embalmer/ Funeral Director at Emerson Funeral Home in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He graduated from Weiner High School...
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Lifetime As A Vault Man
The following is an article I wrote for an employee of my families burial vault business who retired yesterday after...
Read moreDetailsInner-City Funeral Director – Guns, Drugs, and Drive Bys
The middle-aged woman cleaning up the big motorcycle is Charlene Wilson-Doffoney who?s on her way to work at her funeral...
Read moreDetailsAWFD Executive Director Wants to Know What You’re Thinking….
As part of an ongoing project, I'm asking funeral directors of both genders, and all ranges of experience, to participate...
Read moreDetails‘I Just Totally Love What I Do,’ says Funeral Director
What started out as a joke nearly 30 years ago has become a ?calling? for Darrin Ellis. ?It?s like some...
Read moreDetailsFuneral Director On List of 50 best careers of 2010
As one of the 50 best careers of 2010, this should have strong growth over the next decade. The Rundown:...
Read moreDetails?Well-behaved women seldom make history.? – The AWFD Comes Into Its Own
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich first penned the phrase, ?Well-behaved women seldom make history.? She wrote several books about the lives of...
Read moreDetailsJust 21, This Funeral Director is ‘In it For Life’
Just 18 years old in 2006, Mr Nicky Teo Chin Li coordinated his first funeral. It was a day he...
Read moreDetailsGuest Blog: Our Calling: It?s Difficult, But It?s Worth It
In my capacity as manager at our cemetery?s tiny Jewish section I, and my voluntarily-working-overtime operations guy, was present for...
Read moreDetailsTwo Young Men Follow Their Calling into the Funeral Home Profession, Finding Fulfillment in Helping Others
Appleton, Wisconsin - On television and in movies funeral directors are portrayed as tall and pale, bland and boring individuals...
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