Allyse Worland was a child when she went to a family member’s funeral.
“His presentation was not pleasant,” she said. “It was unacceptable. And it was very traumatic for the family.” Worland, just 9 years old, made up her mind that she wanted to become a funeral director to spare other families the pain hers had experienced.
When she was older, she knocked on the doors of every funeral home in her rural Indiana county. She was turned away each time, she said, until she came to one with a a female funeral director…