My grandfather, John P. Henry Jr., undertaker by training and trade, attended Philadelphia’s Eckels College of Mortuary Science in the 1940s. The contents of his mortuary school notebook are fascinating in their own right, covering such topics as embalming, record keeping, and obituary writing. The book will be the subject of future exploration. But first, I’ll share this: a page of drawings of popular cartoon characters, on the last page of the notebook. I don’t know if he sketched these freely or traced them. I will never know if he drew these while bored in class, or after hours while studying, or at Kimmel’s Funeral Home, where he first worked. Those details are…