People

Woman Shares Lessons from Growing Up in a Funeral Home, Says Job Is About More Than 'Death ...

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 ...
People

Funeral Director, Who Felt Death Was Her 'Calling' at 16, Breaks Down Biggest ...

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 ...
The Denver Post

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, ...
The Denver Post

Colorado should finally license funeral home workers, state regulators recommend

Colorado regulators recommended the state once again license funeral home workers in light of recent egregious abuses in the industry. In a 51-page report sent to the state legislature last week, the ...
9NEWS

Victim advocate assigned to families affected in Penrose funeral home case has ties to ...

PENROSE, Colo. — Every day since the discovery of nearly 200 bodies decaying under the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose has been emotionally and mentally taxing for affected families. "I am ...