Meet Lily
Lily Buerkle was once tasked with writing her own funeral as a freshman in college many years ago and took the assignment a little too far. By the end of it, she had interviewed every mortician in the small South Georgia town and created her dream funeral, which is now lost on a floppy disk somewhere. She knows it included a gospel choir singing graveside and being buried in the ’73 Cadillac she was driving at the time. Lily ignored signs from the universe for a good 20 years (a Meyer-Briggs style test said that Funeral Director would be the perfect career for her, and she scoffed at the results.) Somewhere after having her two girls (now 9 and 11) and her last fundraising gig (Lily prefers death to fundraising), she started to listen. Lily has been in funeral service for 7 years now and she can’t imagine doing anything else. She is a licensed mortician in DC, Maryland, and Virginia and is absolutely thrilled to be the new Director of Site Sales and Funerals at her hands-down favorite cemetery in town. Lily hopes to bring the focus back on death at this almost-too-fun cemetery. She loves doing community engagement through death education, hanging with her husband, Eric, and alley-cat, Sweetie, jogging in Rock Creek Park, and playing Would-You-Rather with her girls, Rose and Mae.
