A rags-to-riches undertaking business for two Los Angeles high school buddies began with the purchase of an old hearse to use on camping trips while prospecting rocks and fossils in the 1950s.
The hearse also brought Allan Abbott and Ron Hast their first summer job during college, delivering flowers from the mortuary to the cemetery.
They picked up Marilyn Monroe's remains and helped prepare her for burial, witnessing the shocking state her body was in at the time of death.
From standard hearses, to flower trucks, to rental limos, to an 'air hearse', a boat for scattering ashes at sea, funeral prop rentals - the company that Abbott and Hast created evolved into the leading hearse, mortuary and funeral service company in Hollywood.
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Fallen star: Allan Abbott and Ron Hast were shocked when they saw the condition of Marilyn Monroe's body. Abbott and his brother write about it in gruesome detail in new book Pardon My Hearse
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