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. 1. a long, narrow, open receptacle, usu. boxlike in shape, used chiefly to hold water or food for animals. 2. any of several similarly shaped receptacles used for various commercial or household purposes. 3. a channel or conduit for conveying water, as a gutter under the eaves of a building. 4. any long depression or hollow. 5. a long, wide, and deep depression in the ocean floor having gently sloping sides, wider and shallower than a trench. 6. an elongated area of relatively low barometric pressure.