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Comfortable, charming, home-like:

233 Dunellen Ave has an interesting history of its own. Originally it was built in the late 1800’s for the Child’s family. After they moved north of Dunellen, the house was converted into a rooming house and later sat vacant. Ray Sheenan purchased it with a broken roof from a fallen tree and without windows. Smaller than it is today, Ray and his wife lived in one apartment upstairs and his brother George, (who also became a funeral director and worked there) lived in the other upstairs apartment. The downstairs contained a much better, but still single viewing room, a living room for the family, laundry room and a common kitchen which sat where the conference/smoking room is today. After World War II, George moved to his own home in Arbor and the funeral home underwent its first expansion of many. Always thinking ahead and not resting comfortably on it’s laurels has made Sheenan Funeral Home what it is today – and what it will be in years to come.

This arrangement room is where the kitchen once was. On the back wall you can see some of the plaques given to both Ray and Tom Sheenan

Recently the interior and front of the funeral home was renovated and there is still more to be done on the exterior. Having a comfortable, clean and charming environment helps maintain a level of comfort in a place where most people would rather not be.

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