Funeral Director's Assistant
Baker Funeral Services
08.2023 - Current
- Emotionally comforted mourners and lent perspective during all-encompassing tragedies.
- Positioned corpses in caskets and arranged according to client wishes with exceptional and constant communication.
- Acquired burial permits and registered deaths with proper authorities.
- Cosmetically enhanced deceased with care and according to specific family requests.
- Prepared obituaries for newspapers and online publications after extensive consultation with family members.
- Displayed highest level of professionalism and sensitivity when dealing with grieving family members.
- Picked up deceased at private homes, hospitals and county morgues.
- Closed and secured caskets and led funeral corteges to churches and burial sites.
- Secured and filed burial permits and made funeral arrangements.
- Promoted funeral service merchandise such as caskets, urns, outer burial containers and flowers.
- Arranged funeral/memorial services for grieving families to meet budget and memorialized instructions.
- Liaised between hospitals, physicians, county coroner and members of clergy to coordinate final arrangements.
- Supported funeral director with all facets of funeral service coordination.
- Processed death certificate and other required paperwork.
- Closed caskets at appropriate point in services.
- Managed funeral home finances and performed general bookkeeping duties.
