Funeral Home Destroyed In Fire

December 31, 2006 South Carolina - Columbia's J.P. Holley Funeral Home, whose owners describe it as the first black-owned funeral home in Richland County, was destroyed in one of five "suspicious" fires early Saturday, officials said. At 5:56 a.m., a fire broke out at the funeral home's main building on Senate Street, gutting it and damaging a neighboring building the funeral home owns, fire officials said. The blaze caused $280,000 in damage, and investigators suspect arson, said Deputy Columbia ...