At the dinner table, his father, an Italian immigrant with a seventh-grade education, talked about his day as a gravedigger.

Cruise south of Daly City on El Camino Real and at some point you’ll notice a shift from business and apartment complexes to florists and cemeteries. You’ve entered the town of Colma, California. In ...

With only about 1,700 residents, the Northern California town of Colma considers itself small — but that’s only if you count the living. Add the dead, and it becomes the Bay Area’s largest “city,” ...

Colma, California, is a necropolis where the dead outnumber the living by a thousand to one. The town was established after San Francisco banned new burials and exhumed and relocated bodies to Colma ...