Alice Manns, who was named as the oldest living licensed Black female mortician in Baltimore, Maryland, loved her job, and she was undaunted by the unusualness of her position at the head of a business usually run by men.
If you were lucky enough to have Alice Theresa Baysmore-Manns bury you, she would have done so dressed in an exceptionally beautiful coat. Fawn-gray cashmere, with a voluptuous fur collar, a red-silk lining, and a self-belt, it was the kind of elegant, proper coat that signified the decorum you’d want at a funeral. Even Manns’s children, who attended most of the funerals she directed, would be turned out for the occasion.
The Robert A. Elliott Funeral Home, later called the Elickson Funeral Home, was passed from one female member of the family to the next. Manns’s great-grandmother, her grandmother, and her mother all took their turns at the helm. Manns’s father, who served in the Second World War, had lived through the attack on Pearl Harbor and returned from the war shell-shocked, but he assisted his wife in the running of the home, mostly doing hairdressing on the deceased.
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