Cori Christy Brown, 26, of Seven Fields is a funeral director at Young Funeral Home in Butler. Brown is a member of the Young family, and her parents were not surprised when she wanted to be a funeral director.

Butler County is filled with a variety of people doing interesting things.

This weekly feature offers snapshots of some of them by asking them five questions. The latest installment appears below.

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When Cori Christy Brown, 26, of Seven Fields told her parents she wanted to be a funeral director when she grew up, no one was surprised.

“I’ve never thought of being anything else,” Brown said.

Brown is a part of the Young family that owns Young Funeral Home, which was founded by Breaden Young in 1896.

“My cousin, my mom, my aunt, my uncle, my granddad and my gram all work here,” Brown said.

She joined the family businesses as a funeral director after graduation in 2007.

So far, she hasn’t noticed too many trends in funerals, but she did note more people seem to be being cremated.

As a young woman in the funeral business, Brown shares how she became the funeral director she is today.

QUESTION: How did you become a funeral director?ANSWER: I got into to it because my mom (Robin Young Christy) is a funeral director as well.

QUESTION: Did you have to go to school to become a funeral director?ANSWER: I went to college for two years at Thiel and Slippery Rock and then I went to the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science for a year and did an internship for a year at Young’s.

QUESTION: What do you learn to do in mortuary school?ANSWER: To embalm and all the laws and regulations and accounting ... in case we wanted to do our own books.

QUESTION: Are you ever afraid of being in the funeral home late at night?ANSWER: No, not at all, never.

QUESTION: What do people say when you tell them you’re a funeral director?ANSWER: They just say I don’t look like I would be a funeral director.