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Hurst-Scott Funeral Homes are a small hometown funeral home, staffed by your friends and neighbors who really care about you and your family. We appreciate your taking the time to learn more about Hurst-Scott Funeral Homes, and we invite you to visit the two sites below.
In the years 1930 and 1931 the Richlands Funeral Company, Inc. of Richlands, Virginia was established with the following stockholders, directors, and officers being duly elected: Roy T. White, M.L. Wagner, L.H. Hunter, J.F. White, Nina F. White, W.A. McGlothlin, and Frank Zeigler. L.H. Hunter was the funeral director and embalmer on staff. John C. Scott joined the business in the early 1930s.
In the early years of business there were three branches of the corporation: one at St. Paul, Virginia(which closed in or around 1937), one at Squire, West Virginia (closing in or around 1940); and one starting in Grundy, Virginia in 1938 (Grundy Funeral Home divided from the corporation in 1974 upon the death of C.W. "Pete" Hurst).
In the year 1938, the business was sold to John C. Scott, licensed funeral director, E.H. "Gene" Hurst, Sr., licensed funeral director and embalmer, and C.W. "Pete" Hurst, licensed funeral director and embalmer. The trade name that is still used to this day, Hurst-Scott Funeral Home, was adopted sometime in the late 1940s while all three of these gentlemen ran the day to day operations of the firm |
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Here is a picture taken in front of the Hurst-Scott Funeral Home in Richlands, Virginia around 1939. Pictured L to R are C.W. "Pete" Hurst, John C. Scott, Leon Hall(Visiting Casket Salesman),
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 In September of 1956, Billie Sue Hurst, wife of E.H. "Gene" Hurst, Sr., became a licensed funeral director for the firm and helped operate the business for the next thirty years. In 1966, E.H. "Gene" Hurst, Jr., joined the business at a licensed funeral director and embalmer and continues to this day as Manager of the Hurst-Scott Funeral Home in Richlands, Virginia. Mr. Scott retired from the business in 1970. In 1996, Jeffrey N. Hurst, son of E.H. Hurst, Jr., joined the family business as a licensed funeral director and embalmer.
The funeral home is still in its present location of the 1930s and has been added onto three different times. The first time being in the 1940s; the second time in 1958-1959, when the present day chapel and reception area were built; and in 1978-1979 , when three more parlors, two new restrooms, arrangement conference room, and selection room were added along with a complete renovation of the building.
On October 16, 1988, the Hurst-Scott Funeral Home in Tazewell, Virginia opened at 630 West Main Street. The building was converted from an existing grocery store to a modern day funeral home. To this day, the business continues to operate at the same location with Hugh E. Cooke as its Manager.
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