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In this Dec. 16, 2017 photo, Grace Keffer Ireland, front left, and her sister Emma Keffer, right, pose for a photograph with their parents, from left, Kristine and Joseph, and their grandfather, John at the family business at John W. Keffer Funeral Home in York, Pa. No longer the 'man in the black suit' The Keffer sisters have plans to attend mortuary science school, a step that would allow them to become the third generation to work at the John W. Keffer Funeral Homes & Crematory. The home was started by their grandfather 50 years ago. (Jason Plotkin /York Daily Record via AP)
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