undertaker

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A local undertaker said the embalmed remains of the Iranian sailors were being sent back in sealed boxes.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

Doing so was the role of the undertaker, Van Der Zee explains, though the photographer had his own aesthetic duties.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

On Wednesday, former undertaker Robert Bush appeared at Hull Crown Court after an investigation into human remains found at his premises.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025

Callum Flannelly is a painfully shy undertaker in Ireland who will be disinherited if he doesn’t marry by the time he’s 35.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024

When the jury came back in, the next witness was Chester Miller, a Negro undertaker who had helped with Emmett’s body when it was pulled out of the Tallahatchie.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe