Even the newly dead had no place to go in the months following Katrina as every funeral home in the City soaked in five to eight feet of water for weeks, as did the cemeteries. People who died were taken to funeral homes all over the state and many funerals were delayed for three or four months.
Schoen's Funeral Home and Chapel on Canal Street has served generations of families in New Orleans. Reconstruction is now underway and hopefully it will reopen in 2007.
The photo below is what it looked like shortly after the water went away and the street was cleaned.






The salt water had killed the grass and shrubs and the mold and mildew inside was growing like a beautiful garden. Intensified by the near 100 degrees temperature and no electricity for several months encouraging the mold, the building had to be totally restored.