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Ghost Sign: Cock Bros. / Furniture & Undertaking / Fuller “They Last” Paints.

At first encounter, this sign touting furniture and undertaking may seem odd, but really, what is a coffin if not furniture for the great beyond? It was common for a community’s cabinet maker to also be its chief casket builder. In the case of the Cock brothers, they bought their business in Union, Oregon in 1906, and by 1917 had expanded their enterprise into a grand brick building with one room for furniture sales, and parlor for their funeral business. 

Ghost Sign: Cock Bros. / Furniture & Undertaking / Fuller “They Last” Paints.

At first encounter, this sign touting furniture and undertaking may seem odd, but really, what is a coffin if not furniture for the great beyond? It was common for a community’s cabinet maker to also be its chief casket builder. In the case of the Cock brothers, they bought their business in Union, Oregon in 1906, and by 1917 had expanded their enterprise into a grand brick building with one room for furniture sales, and parlor for their funeral business.