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Perform a variety of tasks during funeral, such as placing casket in parlor or chapel prior to service, arranging floral offerings or lights around casket, directing or escorting mourners, closing casket, and issuing and storing funeral equipment.
- • Perform a variety of tasks during funerals to assist funeral directors and to ensure that services run smoothly and as planned.
- • Greet people at the funeral home.
- • Offer assistance to mourners as they enter or exit limousines.
- • Close caskets at appropriate point in services.
- • Obtain burial permits and register deaths.
- • Direct or escort mourners to parlors or chapels in which wakes or funerals are being held.
- • Place caskets in parlors or chapels prior to wakes or funerals.
- • Clean and drive funeral vehicles, such as cars or hearses, in funeral processions.
- • Carry flowers to hearses or limousines for transportation to places of interment.
- • Clean funeral parlors or chapels.
- • Arrange floral offerings or lights around caskets.
- • Provide advice to mourners on how to make charitable donations in honor of the deceased.
- • Issue and store funeral equipment.
- • Assist with cremations and the processing and packaging of cremated remains.
- • Act as pallbearers.
- • Transport the deceased to the funeral home.
- • Attend to the needs of the bereaved, such as by offering comfort, counseling, or after-care programs.
- • Perform various administrative tasks, such as typing documents or answering telephone calls.
- • Supervise funeral processions and assist with cemetery parking.
- • Deliver floral arrangements or other items to family members of the deceased.
- • Perform general maintenance tasks for funeral homes, such as maintaining equipment or caring for funeral grounds.
- • Embalm, dress, cosmeticize, and casket the deceased.
- • Obtain doctors' signatures on death certificate and complete other paperwork, such as insurance claims forms.
- • Prepare obituaries for newspapers.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
