women funeral directors

WNBA Superstar: From the hardcourt to the prep room

By Funeral Director Daily / August 16, 2022 /

It isn’t very often when you hear of a bona-fide superstar in their athletic field that just can’t seem to wait for the next chapter of their life to start.  However, that is where WNBA superstar Sylvia Fowles finds herself as she has counted down the last weeks and days of her 15-year WNBA career. …

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Plenty of opportunities for women in the death care profession

By Funeral Director Daily / November 20, 2019 /

I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Mortuary Science in 1980 — in a class of about 40 males and one female.  That is just the way it was. . .there were no young women going into the business at that time.  Today, the mortuary science classes at my alma mater are about 70%…

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Women Funeral Directors continue making their mark

By Funeral Director Daily / November 30, 2018 /

I’ve mentioned it before but when I graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Mortuary Science in 1980 I believe that there was one woman in our graduating class of about 40 people (2.5%).  I’m not amazed at the progress that women in the industry have made since that time because the…

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Monday Round-Up

By Funeral Director Daily / March 12, 2018 /

Funeral Director Daily found a lot of news over the weekend on the death care industry.  Instead of trying to pick a great article for our readers we thought that today we would just throw you the headlines of some interesting articles and let you you click to any you might be interested in reading…

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The Growing Numbers of Women Funeral Directors

By Funeral Director Daily / March 8, 2018 /

I came across an article the other day  on nextavenue.org that you can read here pertaining to the growing number of women who are entering the funeral director field.  The article focused on funeral director Jan Smith of Indianapolis who attended mortuary school in the 1990s.  Ms. Smith recalls that the number of females in…

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