THE QUESTING HEIRS ARCHIVE 
B. W. Coon Co. Funeral Home: Funeral Register 1922–1926

From a 2005 article originally written by John McCoy and updated for this blog: “Ten years ago our Society acquired a volume of funeral home records from Coon & Stricklin, a firm that has operated under various names in Long Beach since the 1920s. This 300-page volume contains information about 299 funerals conducted in Long Beach from 1922 to 1926. The information for each funeral was not always completely legible, but we transcribed it the best way we could, and the abstracted data is now posted on our website in a downloadable pdf format so it may be found by interested relatives and genealogists. We will, of course, be happy to provide further details about specific funerals to any such parties.” If your ancestor was buried in Long Beach between 1922 and 1926, take a look at Abstract of Records from the Funeral Register of the B. W. Coon Co. Funeral Home, available on our website.

advertisement source: Polk’s Long Beach California City Directory 1935; R. L. Polk & Co. of California, Publishers, Long Beach, California, ©1935.

One of the entries in this funeral register is for Charles Francis Fritz who is buried in Sunnyside Cemetery.

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His entry reads: “Died 7/28/1922, born 30 apr 1899. Residence 929 Elm. Interment at Sunnyside. Parents: Eugene Fritz (b. Illinois) Mamie Yalow (b. Pennsylvania) #4,” because only the most relevant data is included on our abstracted lists. A full view of Charles Francis Fritz’s ledger page shows that more information about his death and funeral is available:

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Visit the QHGS website at http://www.qhgs.info/downloads.html to download your FREE copy of Abstract of Records from the Funeral Register of the B. W. Coon Co. Funeral Home.

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