A Mortician

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A Mortician from Texas dedicated to the funeral profession, from funeral directing to exploring funeral homes, documenting cemeteries and mausoleums, and curating a collection of funerary antiques.

09/23/2025

Donnellan Funeral Home
7651 S. Jeffery Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60649
Status: Operating As Different Firm; Building In Use
Postcard Collection of Steven R. Bailey

09/21/2025

Renner-Wikoff Chapel
1900 South Philo Road, Urbana, Illinois 61802
Status: Operating; Building In Use
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09/17/2025

Collier Funeral Home
1302 Joe Creason Drive, Benton, Kentucky 42025
Status: Relocated; Building Sold
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09/15/2025

Spalding Mortuary
3045 S. La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90016
Status: Operating; Building In Use
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09/13/2025

It was an honor to represent Darling-Mouser Funeral Home earlier this morning at the funeral services of Mr. Freddy Elizondo, our fellow mortician and the owner of Trinity at Harrison Funeral Homes of Harlingen, Texas.

Several other funeral homes came together to show their support for The Elizondo and Trinity Family. One of the final requests that Mr. Elizondo had was to have as many hearses as possible within his funeral procession, so that we did.

A thank you to:
Trinity at Harrison Funeral Homes of Harlingen; Darling-Mouser Funeral Home of Brownsville; Rudy Garza Funeral Homes of Harlingen, La Feria, and Mercedes; McCaleb Funeral Home of Weslaco; Delta Funeral Directors of Brownsville; Thomae-Garza Funeral Home of San Benito; Good Shepherd Funeral Home of Raymondville; Funeraria del Angel Buena Vista and Rose Lawn of Brownsville; Heavenly Grace Funeral Home of La Feria; Salinas Funeral Homes of Elsa, Weslaco, and Brownsville; Garcia & Trevino Funeral Home of Mercedes; and Joe “24/7” Hernandez.

09/13/2025

Spalding Mortuary
1909 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, California 90404
Status: Closed; Building Sold
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09/11/2025

Sturm Funeral Home
221 N. 1st Street, Grayville, Illinois 62844
Status: Operating As Different Firm; Building In Use
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09/09/2025

Wilson Funeral Home
227 Aspen Avenue, Pond Creek, Oklahoma 73766
Status: Operating; Building In Use
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06/15/2025

After searching for years for one of these vintage curio medical cabinets, I have finally obtained one that, I believe, has local South Texas funeral home history.

I had the opportunity to visit Skinner-Silva Mortuary in 2014/2015 when it was still operating in Edinburg, Texas. I distinctly recall seeing such cabinet in their embalming room that was used to store embalming instruments and supplies, as was customary in the older funeral homes with similar type cabinets. It an off-white color with some random but distinctive red and blue paint markings. The funeral home closed later in 2015 and I missed out on their estate sale which followed.

The other day while searching Facebook Marketplace, I saw this cabinet listed for sale at a very minimal price. It was painted in this green color with butterfly stickers plastered all over it, modern casters welded onto the legs, and missing its glass shelves, but I couldn’t resist purchasing it. Upon closer inspection this morning when picking it up, I noticed those same red and blue paint markings in the same areas that I recall them being on ten years ago. And, this cabinet was also located in Edinburg, which leads me to suspect that it is in fact the same exact cabinet from the shuttered Skinner-Silva Mortuary.

Nearly three weeks later and after countless hours of labor, I have completed my antique Skinner Mortuary embalming/preparation room cabinet restoration project.

On to the next project!

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