CARSON W SPROW

CARSON W. SPROW of Union, SC died unexpectedly February 18, 2018. Carson was the president and founder of International Mortuary Shipping LLC. He graduated summa cum laude in 1990 from the Commonwealth Institute of Funeral Service. Carson taught Restorative Art and served as Preceptor in the Piedmont Technical College Mortuary program. He co-authored the Standard Operating Procedures for identification of human remains through prosthetics and orthodontics with the late Dr. Tony Manoukian, Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Hawaii. The SOP was first used following Hurricane Katrina and later adapted for use by other disaster organizations. Carson was a member of the National Funeral Directors Association, the South Carolina Funeral Directors Association, the South Carolina Coroner's Association and Association of Latin American Funeral Homes and Cemeteries.