Wow Paul, what a story! Thanks for sharing.

When we got there, there were two elderly ladies sitting on a sofa pointing us where the body lay, in the doorway between the kitchen and the living room.. They said he was family but hardly knew him They didn’t like him, he kept bumming money from them and were tired of his visits and good riddance that he died and “get him outa here fast” in a hurry. (Chuckle)

The police had been called and the coroner and the body free to remove from the floor into the gurney to the funeral home.
Back at the funeral home Bob my assistant and I removed him from the stretcher to the embalming table.

I noticed the clothes was disheveled because of the police search on the body but paid no attention to that, however, when on the embalming table I proceeded to undress the body so it could be cleaned and hosed down and washed first with soap before the actual embalming procedure could take place.

As I undressed him I noticed something under the his stomach. He was a huge man with a big beer belly so when the police searched him they didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary.

As I lifted his stomach I saw a money belt and a zipper when opened the green color of money $20 bills, a money belt with $800 inside of it, probably some of the money given to him by the 2 old ladies. I noticed the bills were all neatly ironed and pressed flat.
There was a service for him a few days later with the 2 old Ladies at the grave side. I was there officiating.