Edward 'Eddie' McAshan, III was born the son of a mortician in Gainesville, Florida.
Honorary pallbearers included current State Senator Neil Riser, a mortician from Columbia in Caldwell Parish, former Senator Randy Ewing of Quitman in Jackson Parish, and Farmerville Mayor Stein Baughman.
He played cellist-turned-mortician protagonist in this dramatic film which received the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 81st Academy Awards.
In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis put forth a detailed personal account, wherein he claimed alien autopsies were carried out at the Roswell base.
He briefly considered a career as a mortician, but instead decided to enroll in Salinas Junior College, receiving his Associate's degree there in 1939.
Three of the songs—"We Stitch These Wounds," "Knives and Pens," and "The Mortician's Daughter"—had been previously self-released on their EP, Sex & Hollywood, but were re-recorded and re-released.