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Darling-Mouser opens Port Isabel funeral homeBy TONY V1N0ELLTk a Q # A | I A Li 1/4I n€ Drowniviiif nifiioPORT ISABEL — Darling-Mouscr Funeral Home Inc. has opened an office in this small community, the first funeral home here since the late l%Os.Darling-Mouser opened its eighth location to serve Port Isabel and the surrounding communities of Laguna Heights, Laguna Vista, Bayview and SouthPadre Island.We did not open this new chapel because of economic reasons, Juan Jose Gallegos. Dar-‘We have been serving this area already, but opted for this location to better serve our clients.’Juan Jose Gallegos, regional directormIS'ft,|. Mgr. IFVlt;i‘mSs§:v■ A’VW-••if.% V.■». 'V.:Jfs?Aid7*V■j®ling-Mouser regional director, said while showing off the facility. We have been serving this area already, but opted for this location to better serve our clients.♦ *Until last week, a bodv had to; tw ■taken to either Brownsville or San Benito for funeral home services, although burial generally took place at the Port Isabel City Cemetery.Gallegos estimated that close40 percent of the people who die in the Port Isabel area are pro-nounced dead in their homes as opposed to a hospital.Mm inM'w-nAnthony Padilla/The BrownsvilleJuan Jose Gallegos, regional director for Darling-Mouser Funeral Home, shows off the new Port Isabel location.they finally got, he said.The chapel is on Tarvana Street across the Port Isabel His-to be glad to have a funeral home here.torical Museum, and has seating everybody.“I think it’s a good thing for’ he said. It saves delphia.since it opened Jan. 17.Darling-Mouser is owned by the Loewen Group out of Phila-44Our feeling is thatisI have been here since 1 *475 *or UP to 200 people.and this is something the community of Port Isabel and its sur-Thc Rev. Joseph O’Brien, with Our Ladv Star of the Sea Catho-routiding areas deserved and lie Church, said people seemed havethem trip to Brownsville, San Benito and even Harlingen.far, two funeral services been heldchapelThe company has two funeral homes each in Brownsville and Harlingen, and one each in Elsa, McAllen and Mission.strictly something the Port Isabel community and the surrounding areas have been needingquite some time,” he said. ' have been working in this project for nearly a year.”
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Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas, US
Tue, Jan 27, 1998
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