PENICK
FUNERAL HOME, McKENZIE, TENNESSEE
In
1926, Elijah Charles (Charlie) and Joseph Newton (Joe) Penick
purchased the Scates Undertaking Co. and the name was changed to
Penick Bros. Funeral Directors. A few years later, Charles became
sole owner and the name was changed to Penick Funeral Home. In 1936
it was moved from downtown McKenzie to Magnolia Street. In 1945,
Jack Brummitt purchased the business, retained its location, and
changed the name to Brummitt Funeral Home, as it remains today.
The Penick Funeral
Home books, which are housed at the Brummitt Funeral Home, contain
1,238 burials from 1926 through 1945.
