Funeral service apprentices assist in planning funeral arrangements and providing support to grieving families.
Duties include:
- Scheduling funeral services
- Coordinating burials and arranging cremations
- Validating readiness status for medical support teams
- Supervised Embalming
- Conducting inventory control
- Filing death certificates, insurance claims, and Veterans Administration benefits
- Planning and organizing wakes and memorial services
- Managing multi-phone systems and data entry
- Picking up the deceased from various locations
- Performing general maintenance within the funeral home.
