
American Homegoing

Staff at Wilson & Associates Funeral Service transfer flowers to a vehicle for the procession to the cemetery following a funeral service, Richmond, VA. 2022

Funeral home cosmetologist at work. Garfield, OH, 2021

Virginia Morticians Association convention and trade show, Williamsburg, VA, 2017

Employees move caskets in a store room at Lucas Memorial Chapel, Garfield Heights, OH, 2021

Funeral director Hari P. Close at work building facial tissue. Baltimore, MD. 2022

Brothers from Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. wait before paying their respects to William T. Stone at the funeral home Judge Stone took over from his uncle and aunt, McKinley T. and Edna Cooke Whiting. Whiting’s Funeral Home, Williamsburg, VA. 2018

Whiting’s Funeral Home staffers, including family members, adjust the casket of William T. Stone, the African American-owned funeral home’s patriarch, before his homegoing. Williamsburg VA. 2018

Pastor James J. Johnson of Liberty Baptist, Charles City, VA, wipes his forehead after officiating a homegoing service at Wilson & Associates Funeral Service. Richmond, VA. 2022

Whiting’s Funeral Home staff member moves to close hearse door after the homegoing service for William T. Stone, the patriarch of the family-owned business. Williamsburg, VA. 2018

Reflection in the rear windshield of a hearse parked at Whiting’s Funeral Home, an African American-owned business founded in 1932. Whiting’s traces its origins to the casket-making business started by Henry Cooke in 1868, in Richmond VA. Williamsburg, VA. 2017.

National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association annual convention and exposition, New Orleans, LA, 2022

National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association annual convention, Mobile, AL, 2019

National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association annual convention, New Orleans, LA, 2022












