in all of Ft Bend County, Texas for many decades

if you were Black & died...you held the funeral & were buried by us from the 1920s up thru the 90s.

back in the day when grandfather was running it...shit was smooth.

then he died & uncle junior took over. uncle junior was maybe 5'5" but was the type of man i dont really see much of anymore, bald, beard, muscle & nicotine.

what uncle junior said...went. with junior was munch, cookie, teddy, mike & wayne. junior handled the business. much & cookie actually handled the body, did the make up, etc. teddy was the face of the operation who soothed the widows & collected the money, mike & wayne were crackheads who dug the graves.

period.

now a family came to us & said their loved one was on his last legs. get shit together. so..we did.

they put some money down...munch & cookie went & got the body, worked their magic.

Mike & wayne dug the grave.

Teddy couldnt get the family to pay their balance.

We couldnt put the body in the ground or do anything further til we got paid.

Family was like...well...we aint got it.

These are crackers by the way. Them segregation lines had blurred by this point so white folks was giving us business by then.

The mans family & Junior got into on the phone and Junior basically said either you come drop off this check...or we coming to drop off this body.

The family said do it then.

Junior told Mike & Wayne drop the body off...went out in his truck & took off to the casino.

Mike & wayne looked at each other...looked at the man...looked at each other...

now remember I said what Junior said...goes.

so....

Mike & Wayne load em up.

Take him over to the trailer park.

The mans family is there in stark disbelief.

Mike & Wayne literally propped the dead body on a pallet on the stoop of the gatdamn trailer.

then had to brawl all them rednecks who came boiling out the houses like a bunch of mad ass wasps

According to Wayne that shit was like the Alamo, him & Mike were back to pack, standing over the dead body, giving waves of rednecks the business till the police got there.

http://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/10/15/Dead-mans-son-mortuary-worker-get-into-fistfight/7252719121600/