What Funeral Attendants do: 1  Direct or escort mourners to parlors or chapels in which wakes or funerals are being held. 2  Greet people at the funeral home. 3  Perform a variety of tasks during funerals to assist funeral directors and to ensure that services run smoothly and as planned. Greet people at the funeral home. 2  Perform a variety of tasks during funerals to assist funeral directors and to ensure that services run smoothly and as planned. 3  Carry flowers to hearses or limousines for transportation to places of interment.
Trough. trough. 1. A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.
[L.] abnormal accumulation of serous fluid in the tissues or in a body cavity; called also dropsy. See also hydramnios (hydrops amnii), hydrallantois (hydrops allantois). fetal hydrops, hydrops fetalis. gross edema of the entire body of the newborn, in hemolytic disease of the newborn.