DETROIT – Lynch & Sons Funeral Directors purchased the former Perry Funeral Home in Detroit.
The firm announced its purchasing the former Perry Funeral Home on Trumbull near Warren Avenue on Monday, April 27.
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According to the press release, the building will be restored and reopened as Lynch & Sons Woodbridge Chapel.
Lynch & Sons Funeral Directors is a third-generation family-owned funeral service firm with multiple locations across Southeast Michigan.
The acquisition holds historical significance for the firm, as the founder, Edward Lynch Jr., began his career at Perry Funeral Home as a teenager, then served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II and later attended Wayne State University for mortuary school.
Following Perry Funeral Home’s closure in 2018, after more than 60 fetuses were found and a lawsuit was filed over the mishandling of infant remains, Lynch & Sons Funeral Directors said it’s committed to providing services for infants and stillborn children at no cost, “ensuring that families experiencing unimaginable loss receive support with dignity and compassion.”
“We were obviously saddened deeply by those discoveries,” Paddy Lynch, the grandson of Edward Lynch Jr., said in a statement. “So we want to help this facility move forward in a positive light. Nothing like that should ever happen and we’re here to make sure that infants are cared for as if they were our very own.”
Paddy Lynch will be leading the opening of the building on Trumbull. He plans to move mortuary students to the building this summer and have the funeral home open by November.