Sandra Abbott lives and breathes death.
As a certified embalming technician, a certified funeral director and the secretary and treasurer of Abbott Funeral Services in Aurora, she’s ready to make funeral arrangements, pick up cadavers or prepare bodies for burial or cremation any time of day, every week of the year.
As a hobbyist, she frequently travels to some of the state’s most obscure cemeteries to search for unique headstones, peculiar causes of death or notable historical figures. A bona fide buff of Colorado interment history, she took a shine last month to an iron-clad headstone she found at a cemetery in Westcliffe that shielded an intact 1904 photograph and the biography of the Colorado woman it commemorated. She’s also enjoyed recent visits to a venerated boneyard in Silver Plume wherein local historians have clarified several of the bygone fates of the deceased.
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