General Info

It was Francis J. McCabe, born in 1871, who founded the funeral home, now recognized as a “Michigan Centennial Business.” Francis’ son, Clifford L. McCabe, born in 1895, developed an interest in his father’s profession at an early age. As a schoolboy, he would ride with his father in the horse-drawn hearse over country roads to the cemetery. In the coldest, most severe winter weather, he would accompany the elder McCabe—sometimes huddled in a blanket beneath the dashboard of the carriage, while his father guided the horse through the snow.