Column: Correct casket, right clothing, wrong person Johnny Vardeman
He also has stories handed down from the previous owners of Ward’s Funeral Home.
Once, Jerry recalled, the funeral home had 11 or 12 services pending and eight different shapes of caskets for mourners to choose from. Those were the days when it was common for the deceased to be taken to their home for viewing.
On one such extra busy occasion, when Buck Ward took a body to a home, upon opening the casket, the deceased woman’s husband told him, “That’s her casket, and that’s her dress, but that’s not her.”