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On March 1, 1961, Tena Doby opened her beauty salon on Beatties Ford Rd. She stands here (on the right) with her mother, Bessie B. Franks, and sister, Jessie Lee Irby.
On March 1, 1961, Tena Doby opened her beauty salon on Beatties Ford Rd. She stands here (on the right) with her mother, Bessie B. Franks, and sister, Jessie Lee Irby.
The Funeral Business
The funeral business has been an evolution from that of small scale and necessity to big business and corporations. Early coffin makers were usually local carpenters that made furniture as their primary source of income.
The Excelsior Club, a long-time center of black social and political activity, was started in 1944 by Jimmie McKee in a seven-room house on Beatties Ford Rd.