A Vietnam War veteran owned and operated this funeral home for more than 30 years. He spent a year and a day in Vietnam before returning home to South Carolina to start a family. A month later he married his childhood sweetheart. Their paths crossed while attending the same church as teenagers. Eventually, the couple had three children together.
As a business owner, he was viewed by many as a leader and mentor in the community. In the 1980s, he became one of the first African Americans to serve on the city council. He served three terms before stepping down in the late 1990s. After a neighbor’s house caught fire, causing an estimated $150,000 in damages, he opened his funeral home, allowing her to live on the second floor as contractors remodeled her home.
Sadly, the funeral director died in 2007, two days after celebrating his 38th wedding anniversary. Before the funeral home closed, the business operated for another decade. In the aftermath of the closing, furniture and equipment were slowly sold off, and an electrical fire broke out in the attic. Today, the funeral home remains abandoned.
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Why is it that so much is left behind when a funeral home closes? Those caskets are expensive and I would love to know what the upstairs pine wood piece of furniture is. Great work!!!
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There are so many funeral homes that are left abandoned – this just blows my mind. And like the other commented said, so much left behind. I would think that they would try to sell the caskets and hearses instead of just letting them rot away.
Keep up the great posting – I love your stuff!
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I was just thinking this. It totally blows my mind that a funeral home would just be left to rot like this. Insane!
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