Woman Goes Viral Sharing Life Working in Funeral Home (Exclusive)

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Growing up, Eileen Hollis lived above a funeral home

Her father Charlie bought the Victorian house-turned-funeral business in 1979 in Syracuse, N.Y., and became the funeral director

Now, years later, Hollis works at the funeral home as a mortician and is preparing to take over as director once her father retires

When Eileen Hollis was a kid, sneaking out of her room didn’t mean running off with friends — it meant wandering downstairs into the funeral home her family lived above.

Her father, Charlie, bought the Victorian house-turned-funeral business in 1979 in Syracuse, N.Y., and became the funeral director of their family business, Hollis Funeral Home . While some kids might have been unsettled by the setting, Hollis loved it. By the time she went to college, she was