After being forced out of his funeral home at 2529 Central Avenue in 1935, J. Walter Wills Sr. and his family business and residence moved to this former Jewish funeral home. The Victorian house was the business's most lavishly decorated to date. Already a prominent figure in African American organizations, Wills responded to the hardship of the Depression by converting the third floor of his funeral home into a storehouse for food staples to distribute to those hit hard by the economic collapse. | Date: 1941 | Source: Call and Post, March 1, 1941Download Original File
