Warren Hills Memorial Home.The Ford Family started in the furniture business in Washington in the 1860s. Charles Ray Ford, known to his friends & employees as C.R. became an undertaker in 1891. Charles R. was a cabinetmaker and like many others in that trade at the time was also an undertaker. The letterhead at the furniture store read "Charles R. Ford Cabinetmaking & Undertaking.After Charles R. Ford died in 1926 his sons Fred Ford & Charles H. Ford continued the family businesses. Charles H. became a licensed embalmer and Fred who was very talented and skilled at making the buttons used for the tufted interiors of the caskets, carried on the family business. At the turn of the century the combination of furniture making & undertaking was as common as the horse & buggy. This was a time in history when all the funerals were held in the home of the deceased.
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