Diggs Funeral Home
- Identifier
- DBB-BUS-00149
- Name
- Diggs Funeral Home
- Type
- Business
- Activity
- funeral services
- Description
- Charles C. Diggs operated a funeral home and an affiliated floral business at the same location. By the 1940s, the location was on Mack Ave, spanning multiple lots at 689-693 Mack Ave.
- Location
- 689 Rowena Ave (Mack Ave)
- 1391 Mullett St
- Maple St and St Aubin Ave
- 693 Rowena Ave (Mack Ave)
- Affiliates
-
Diggs, Charles C. Sr.
Role: Owner and/or OperatorDiggs, Mamie C.
Role: Owner and/or Operator, Manager (family business with husband Charles C. Diggs) - Related Organization
- Charles C. Diggs (Florist)
- Book Pages
-
This business or an affiliated person appears in the book Freedom Enterprise on page(s): xiii, 58, 72, 97, 106, 110, 117, 122, 123, 133, 239, 240, 241, 250.
- Documentation
- Freedom Enterprise, xiii (Diggs Funeral Home/House of Diggs)
- 1924 Colored Detroit, 29 (Diggs, Charles C.)
- 1927 Detroit Negro Business League Directory, 26 (Diggs, Charles C.)
- 1935 BTWTA Directory, 14, 30 (Diggs, Chas. C.)
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1939-06-24 Michigan Chronicle, 3 (Diggs Funeral Directors)
- 1939-12-23 Michigan Chronicle, 15 (Diggs Funeral Home)
- 1941-06-28 Michigan Chronicle, 2 (Diggs Funeral Home)
- 1943-12-25 Michigan Chronicle, 7 (Senator Diggs Funeral Director)
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1943-12-25 Michigan Chronicle, 2 (Diggs Funeral Homes)
- Title
- Diggs Funeral Home