Great Bend Funeral Homes

Since that time in 1996, Charter Funerals has expanded to become a regional funeral and cemetery service provider with eight chapels and four cemeteries to help families pay their respects, not their life's savings.

Great Bend merchant, J. Lester Cox, opened a furniture store and funeral parlor in downtown Great Bend in 1899. He started his business, Great Bend Furniture Company, on the northwest corner of the intersection of Main Street and Broadway Avenue. He later