Funeral Attendants

Perform 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.

Job Task

• Act as pallbearers.
• Arrange floral offerings or lights around caskets.
• Carry flowers to hearses or limousines for transportation to places of interment.
• Clean and drive funeral vehicles such as cars or hearses in funeral processions.
• Direct or escort mourners to parlors or chapels in which wakes or funerals are being held.
• Greet people at the funeral home.
• Perform a variety of tasks during funerals to assist funeral directors and to ensure that services run smoothly and as planned.
• Place caskets in parlors or chapels prior to wakes or funerals.
• Assist with cremations, and with the processing and packaging of cremated remains.
• Close caskets at appropriate point in services.
• Issue and store funeral equipment.
• Obtain burial permits and register deaths.
• Offer assistance to mourners as they enter or exit limousines.
• Transfer the deceased to funeral homes.
• Clean funeral parlors and chapels.
• Perform general maintenance duties for funeral homes.
• Provide advice to mourners on how to make charitable donations in honor of the deceased.

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