She still cries but not like she did. You show the compassion and make it real. One idea that Jarrah brought to the table was having a grief therapy dog at the funeral home. Soon thereafter, Libby Crotty, a certified grief therapy dog, joined the funeral home staff. At a funeral she sits, and the children like her. At one funeral, she even did a pass-by of the casket with a child whose mother had died. The grandmother wanted that. We always wear the same color at the funerals.
Recently we all wore purple dresses. In almost eight years of running the funeral home, mother and daughter continue to work well together. She took the wheel and I was awfully proud of her.
We have to take off some days; we have to do a mother-daughter time away from work. Debra also has four adopted children; one of them Levi, 9, is already getting adapted to the funeral home. He demanded his own name badge. It says future funeral home director.
They are going to expand their onsite chapel, doubling its capacity to and build a bigger parking lot. She was helping me by moving caskets and painting fingernails. Amy grew up in Ohio and moved south to be near warmer weather.
My mom allowed me to have as much involvement as I wanted to. In , Bree helped her mother with the funeral of an acquaintance she went to school with. That was a game changer. I saw how it impacted his family, and I was able to help. I saw how much they appreciated it. Bree enrolled in John A.
Gupton College, a mortuary school in Nashville, Tennessee, and received her license in Lessons from an Experienced Embalmer. He was old school. I changed my major. As she gradually moved south, Amy worked for a couple other funeral homes before she heard of a little town in Alabama that had a funeral home for sale. She purchased it in and has been running it ever since.
Enter the password that accompanies your username. She attended St. Upon graduating in , Whigham enrolled at Virginia State College in Petersburg, Virginia to study business administration, but left in order to pursue a career in mortuary science. There, she and her then husband became successful real estate investors as the founders of Bennett and Bennett Associates, the largest black owned property management company in Los Angeles at the time.
She oversaw the services for jazz singer Sarah Vaughn, as well as other celebrities from Newark, New Jersey. Whigham was called again by the Houston family to oversee funeral services for Whitney Houston in , and her daughter Bobbi Christina Brown in She also oversaw the funeral of Congressman Donald M.
Whigham said a security detail from Nippy Inc. She said the funeral home's investigation revealed that the picture was taken on Feb. She declined to detail the funeral home's findings. The photo showed Houston wearing a purple dress with her hair pulled back and sparkly earrings.
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