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.
trough (plural troughs) A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals. One of Hank's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening. Any similarly shaped container. (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes. Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.