and last updated 2021-01-28 19:37:15-05
BRYAN, TX â As deaths tolls across the state, and country, continue to rise, funeral homes, are reaching their limits doing all they can to keep bodies, out of freezers.
Currently, California is seeing death rates as theyâve never seen before, earlier this month, a Southern California funeral home began asking for volunteer embalmers.
âWe were informed of a funeral home there, that ordinarily, they are a small funeral home, they only require one embalmer. But because of the pandemic now, they have so many loved ones coming into their funeral home, but they are not able to care for them quick enough so what they needed was an embalmer,â says Amanda Valenzuela Gittelman, Managing Partner of Hillier Funeral Homes.