| Until about 1880, when a man named August Renouard arrived in N. Y., Holmes thought of himself as the only proficient embalmer in the country. |
| Maria Thomas, an apprentice embalmer in Virginia, had worked in the performing arts before starting her training. |
| Back in Canada the former corporal became a truck driver, embalmer and dining car steward. |
| An embalmer no longer works in his morgue, but his preparation room, operating room, laboratory. |
| They regulate how a funeral home, funeral director, embalmer, and apprentice embalmer can advertise. |
| Gettys told her that, thirty years ago, he'd entered the business as an apprentice embalmer. |
