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Little Miss Funeral is actually Lauren LeRoy, a twenty-something year old licensed funeral director in New York State. Little Miss Funeral was started in March 2012 as a platform for Lauren to share her thoughts and ideas on the funeral industry.
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I am 21 years old working as a funeral director’s assistant in New Zealand. I am so excited to have stumbled upon your blog! Its so fantastic to find someone of similar age in the industry. Your section about what you wear is great too and I have a very similar bowler hat that I shall wear at the next funeral I attend (if I feel it’s appropriate). You’re very inspiring. Keep it up xx
I have enjoyed your site. I’m also a licensed FD/E for the state of GA. I don’t know if you experienced the same issues as myself and some other school friends but it is hard, and I mean hard, to get into this industry as a woman. Especially a 26 year old one with no one in your family that does this. Most of the businesses in the south still have the mentality that women should be answering the phone or just doing paperwork. It took me over a year to find a job once I got out of school. I worked hard to prove myself worthy to the company that eventually hired me. This is something that I love and wouldn’t trade it for any other job in the world. But if anybody else is reading this with the same issues I had, don’t give up. In the end all the efforts will pay off.
Your blog is so fascinating.
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Lauren, I am a funeral director from Worcester, Massachusetts. I grew up in my grandparents funeral homes as a child. I attended mortuary college after high school and then went on to work for the state police. I completed my masters in criminal justice and work as an investigator for a law firm. I enjoyed your blog. It’s great! I love the way you express yourself!
I am 20 and have been working in the mortician field since I was 15. I’m going to school in Sac for my mortician license and hopefully my embalming license as well. I really wanna find girls like me who don’t mind working around the dead 24/7…it’s so hard to find friends when they are creeped out of your job. Contact me if you know anyone in Cali you can hook me up with for mentoring or wharves 🙂
Good luck with everything! Mortuary Report is a cool blog (I believe she is stationed in the Bay area?) And are you on twitter and instagram? There is a whole funeral director community out there with people all over the country! The ladies really help with support, even if they’re miles away!
Here in the UK there are gradually more and more lady funeral directors. It used to be the case that they were never seen. If they existed they were always behind the scenes. Now it is unusual to see a funeral without at least one lady participating. Always very smart, and quite often with a top hat.
Looking forward to reading more of your blog.
Hi Lauren,
I am a lot older than you but I am only just about to start my career in the Funeral Industry, so finding your site was/is very useful and most interesting. I really enjoy reading your pages.
I decided to start my own blog, thinking it could perhaps help other people who are unsure of what to expect working as an Undertaker, sharing my experiences and learning as I progress.
Mark
That is awesome! Thank you for reaching out to me and good luck! I can’t wait to read about your journey 🙂
Thanks Lauren, means a lot.
Lauren, my husband and I just met a wonderful couple from New York in the Caribbean. She said she is either a funeral Director or a mortician. Maybe both. I know her man spoke highly of how she reconstructed faces for funerals and viewings. We didn’t get her last name but are trying to locate them on facebook. Longshot I know but she was young like you and has many tattoos. Her name is Jacqueline. Can you help?
Susan, did she mention what part of New York she is from? I live and work in Western New York and I don’t recall anyone by that name or description, although that’s not to say she doesn’t live here! Do you know if she is perhaps from the city?
Hi Lauren,
As a 22 year old that just applied to school to be a funeral director, your blog has been enjoyable to read and also reassuring. Some of the feelings and experiences you wrote about are exactly what I’m hoping for in this career, so thank you for sharing. Also, kind of crazy but I’m from Niagara Falls, ON, so looks like you aren’t too far away (shame I never got the chance to try Eddie’s restaurant though). Cheers!
I have another question for you. U live in a medium sized city there was a lot of old family owned funeral homes. Almost all have been purchased by a large funeral home now if your interested loved one passed away they are taken to a prepping center then transfer to the funeral home the day of the funeral. All the proffessional personal service is gone. How do you feel about this.