MICHELLE ELIZABETH WAYBRIGHT

Contact EDUCATION
Cell Phone:
 Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
(228) 238-8370
Associates of Arts- Jackson County Campus

August 2009- May 2014

E-Mail(s):
Associates of Applied Science in Funeral Service Technology-
Personal: Perkinston Campus
waybrightmichelle@gmail.com
August 2014–May 2016
School:
 University of Southern Mississippi
Michelle.Waybright@usm.edu
Bachelors in Business Administration (General Business) BSBA
Hobbies
Currently enrolled for Fall 2020 Semester
Fishing
 Ocean Springs High School
Boating
August 2005- May 2009
Reading

Running/Bicycling  Achievements

Graduated with Honors from Ocean Springs High School and

was recognized also as a Mississippi Scholar; participated in
the Ocean Springs Cotillion Sorority in High School; graduated
Class of 2014 with my AA degree of the Jackson County
Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College;
graduated Class of 2016 with my AAS degree in Funeral
Services Technology (Mortuary Science) with a 4.0 GPA

WORK EXPERIENCE
Holder-Wells Funeral Home: Funeral Assistant/On-Call

June 2020-Present

Responsible for all aspects of preparing a funeral home/church for a

funeral and/or memorial service, setting up chairs, placing pictures
and/or other décor as requested by the grieving family; arrange floral
arrangements (sprays, stands, etc.) and/or potted plants accordingly
around their loved one’s casket. Preparing the casket for viewings and
funerals, as well as urns for memorial services; (most importantly, in
my opinion) setting out the proper flag and/or religious icon (cross,
crucifix, etc.) behind the casket/urn, honoring a religion and/or
branch of the military, and, respectfully, to honor the deceased’s
selfless act of serving our country and protecting our many freedoms;
transfer calls as well as answering telephones in a professional
manner; greet families and ensure their comfort; I, personally,
maintain a certain sense of tranquility and peace in the funeral home,
by making sure it is “family ready” at any given time; tidying of the
reception/lounge area, conference rooms, viewing rooms, chapel,
restrooms, and administrative areas within the funeral home; making
removals (death calls), transporting human remains to the funeral
home for embalming/cremation depending on the family’s wishes;
also, after proper documentation is signed, transporting and receiving
remains from airports and other funeral homes, etc.

Serenity Funeral Home: Administrative Assistant

January 2019–May 2019

Answer phones, file paperwork, do research for family services

counselors and pre-need sales counselors, make deeds, update data
in “Nexus” from their old filing system, organizing price lists and
merchandise packets for families in chronological order, etc.

Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home: Administrative Assistant

August 2016–January 2019

Answer phones, take first calls, type obituaries, and type register
books, make laminated obituaries (bookmarks), file funeral and life
insurance claims, worked funeral services, embalming, responsible for
all aspects of preparing a funeral home/church for a funeral and/or
memorial service, setting up chairs, placing pictures and/or other
décor as requested by the grieving family; arrange floral
arrangements (sprays, stands, etc.) and/or potted plants accordingly
around their loved one’s casket. Preparing the casket for viewings and
funerals, as well as urns for memorial services; (most importantly, in
my opinion) setting out the proper flag and/or religious icon (cross,
crucifix, etc.) behind the casket/urn, honoring a religion and/or
branch of the military, and, respectfully, to honor the deceased’s
selfless act of serving our country and protecting our many freedoms;
transfer calls as well as answering telephones in a professional
manner; greet families and ensure their comfort; I, personally,
maintain a certain sense of tranquility and peace in the funeral home,
by making sure it is “family ready” at any given time; tidying of the
reception/lounge area, conference rooms, viewing rooms, chapel,
restrooms, and administrative areas within the funeral home; making
removals (death calls), transporting human remains to the funeral
home for embalming/cremation depending on the family’s wishes;
also, after proper documentation is signed, transporting and receiving
remains from airports and other funeral homes (as well as scheduling
cremations, for said outside funeral homes), transporting remains to
and from the crematory, embalming (with a licensed embalmer),
dressing, applying cosmetics and style hair, or, depending on the
family’s preferences, setting the bereaved up for their family’s choice
of whom they would hire as a hairdresser/makeup artist and then
proceed with dressing and casketing; filing death certificates (using
EDRS approximately in 2018- the state switched to filing
electronically), filing insurance claims when death certificates arrived
from the state department of health- and following up with them
regularly, calling families to offer to deliver or mail death certificates
to them unless they preferred to come retrieve them from the funeral
home at their convenience, compiled and published obituaries for our
local papers as well as for out of town newspapers, produce register
books with a typewriter, create memorial videos with as many photos
as the family chooses, etc.

REFERENCES
Kimberly Pyron

Co-Manager/Mentor of Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Homes

(228) 234-0637 or (228) 209-1312

Marvin “Bubba” Cunningham

General Manager/Funeral Director for Holder-Wells & Coastal

Funeral Homes

(228) 334-1281 or (228) 475-2112

Jeffrey O’Keefe, Sr.

CEO of Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Homes

(228) 861-2432 or (228) 872-2699

Shannon “Shayne” Davis

Pre-Need Counselor/Sales at Serenity Funeral Home

(251) 473-3305