In 2022, 77% of the more than 7,000 students enrolled in funeral service education programs in the U.S. were women.

A man posing as a mourner planning a memorial at a Harlem mortuary waited for his accomplice to burst into the funeral home, before the two men beat up the director and threatened him with a ...

The Harlem funeral home director beaten, robbed of his wallet and threatened with a machete in his office by a pair of crooks pretending to be mourners was left stunned by the brazen holdup.

The Monroe woman is a funeral director for Hamilton Funeral Homes and a trainer for the National Funeral Directors Association. She's part of a wave of younger, female morticians sweeping the industry ...

And it was very traumatic for the family." Worland, just 9 years old, made up her mind that she wanted to become a funeral director to spare other families the pain hers had experienced.