Growing up in downstate Illinois, I discovered there weren’t a lot of agency opportunities in small prairie towns. But there just so happened to be a little shop that specialized in the final ads you might ever need. Funeral homes are actually quite competitive businesses, especially when it comes to pre-planning memorials. So my first year in the biz, I wrote print, radio, billboards, even jingles for the mortuary industry. Here’s a few from the archives…