Meet Our Staff - Trimble Funeral Homes (2024)

FAQs

Why would a funeral home call you? ›

Our policy is to contact a family as soon as we are notified by a hospital, hospice worker, or nursing/retirement community about a death. The main reason for this initial call is to establish whether or not the next of kin wishes for their loved one to be embalmed.

You can facilitate the process of grief, counsel families through difficult choices, and help them say goodbye with dignity. For many morticians and funeral directors, they find great meaning in their career and this alone is what keeps them going to work every day. You can expect good compensation.

Day-to-day tasks

help families plan funerals, including the time, date and location. manage team members on the day of the funeral. organise services like flowers, transport and notices. explain laws about funerals and help families fill in forms.

If the death was expected and your loved one passes away at home, your first call should be to the hospice nurse or whomever was in charge of their care in their final days.

Many funeral homes will not allow a public viewing unless embalming is performed. It is not a state or federal law that embalming be required. It is only a regulation by certain funeral homes. The regulation exists for many reasons including health safety, liability, and other undesired effects of decomposition.

Sale of Casket: Funeral homes also sell caskets to make money. The sale of caskets happens to be one of the most profitable ventures that funeral homes engage in. Usually, they make the caskets necessary for each family. And to say the least, the coffins are priced to make a profit.

A funeral home is a 24-hour, labor-intensive business, with extensive facilities (viewing rooms, chapels, limousines, hearses, etc.), which must be factored into the cost of a funeral. A majority of the expense is typically in the funeral home professional fees and merchandise for the funeral or memorial itself.

Working with death and families in grief can be emotionally challenging. Morticians are around death daily and frequently hear stories that may be emotionally draining, which can affect their outlook on life.

How Much Do Funeral Director Jobs Pay per Year? $52,500 is the 25th percentile. Salaries below this are outliers. $76,000 is the 75th percentile.

There are specialist embalmers that perform post-mortem surgery upon people who suffered devastating injuries in fatal accidents. Many funeral directors have the skills to carry out embalming, or can arrange for an embalmer to do so at your chosen funeral home.

What do female funeral directors wear? ›

Most women will wear skirt or pant suits, depending on the dress code, with a white blouse underneath. For removals, either stick to pants or make sure your skirt hits below the knees. As far as shoes, closed-toed is important. If a heel is required, make it a comfortable heel 2-inches or less with traction.

Calling Hours

A time when friends and acquaintances gather at a funeral home to view the decedent's body after it has been prepared by the funeral home. This is also a time to offer condolences to the surviving family members. Also known as “visitation” or “wake.”

Once a funeral home has picked up the body and brought it to their facility, they will then clean and dress and/or shroud the body. Afterward, the body will be placed in refrigeration to keep it cool until the day of burial, at which point the body will be transported to the burial site.

While tasks like meeting with customers may occur during normal business hours, preparing for upcoming funerals or embalming bodies may require night work. On-call or long work hours may also be a requirement, as morticians may respond to family requests during the night.

With mortuary embalming, the embalmed body is preserved for about a week, so viewings should occur within that time. The embalmed body is suitable for visitation for a little longer than a week. Ideally, burial or cremation should happen within a week of death in most cases where possible.