LESTER'S FUNERAL PARLOR

This one-story brick building houses the workshop of undertaker Dick Lester.

Lester charges $20 to bury a customer in a plain pine box. He purchases these coffins from CASSIDY LUMBER, next door to his shop, for $4 each.  Fancier coffins can be had for $7 to $30 and Lester will special order a silk-lined, ebony coffin with a music box inside for $50. However, this item must be shipped over from Absolution and will take at least 7 (maybe 10) days to arrive.

Lester also acts as Deputy County Coroner for eastern Cochise County and gets 50 cents from the county for each death certificate he signs and $2 for each autopsy he performs. Only Judge Isby can order an autopsy. Lester boards at THE GREAT WESTERN. He pays Roy Ryer to dig graves for him when Ryer is not busy at CASSIDY LUMBER.

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