The AFRO took time to honor the “Unsung Heroes” of the COVID-19 pandemic at Valley Mansion by Martin’s on Aug. 6. The media company commended morticians for the critical and often under recognized ...

The application process to receive reimbursement for funeral expenses related to COVID-19 is now open. The funds will be coming from FEMA, which said it will cover up to $9,000 per funeral. The money ...

With the guidance to keep crowds to a minimum, funeral directors are having to change how they help their communities remember the dead. Often, in small North Carolina towns, the deceased is ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Seventy-eight more Pennsylvanians died on Tuesday from the coronavirus. Both the volume of fatalities and the necessity of social distancing has overwhelmed the funeral business ...

After three years of living through a global pandemic, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is set to end the U.S. Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19 on May 11. This declaration ...

The president of the North Carolina Board of Funeral Service sent a letter Thursday to Gov. Roy Cooper asking him to change a rule he says puts funeral board members and their employees in danger.

Tim Lones and his wife of 29 years, Linda Baxter Lones, held hands for the last time on the morning of Nov. 22, shortly before she passed away from COVID-19. Linda was 52 years old. "If she knew you, ...

“In this business, if you don’t adapt, you fail, huh.” Ronald L. Jones has a unique way of using the word “huh.” For Jones, it’s more of an affirmation than a question. Like a preacher uses “Amen,” ...

STORY: In the mortuaries and funeral parlors of Hong Kong, the remains of COVID-19 victims have piled up faster than the staff can manage. Public mortuaries have had to find ways to triple their space ...