Melvin J. Fulton (right) points to Dexter Vaughn’s (left) father’s certificate of embalming at the Cox Brother’s Funeral Home. Vaughn’s father, Dexter I. Vaugh, was one of the oldest embalmers in the city when he died. Image by Evey Wilson
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