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Local Funeral Home Celebrates 25 Years of Service in Tyler!

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April 1, 2022, will mark the twenty-fifth (25) anniversary of Le Roy Francis, Sr., dba Community Funeral Home of Tyler.

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The funeral home was established as a joint effort by Le Roy Francis, Sr., and Clemmie Manning in 1997.

The company's slogan has always been "Speaking With Quiet Eloquence, Dignity, and Respect", which personifies in the manner of the founders whose paths first crossed in Dallas at the Dallas Institute of Funeral Services. Manning who took care of the technical aspects of the funeral home was formerly a respiratory therapist. Francis credits Manning with coming up with the name Community Funeral Home of Tyler.

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Le Roy Francis Sr. is a Smith County native. He is the youngest of nine (9) children born to the late Esstella, and Milton Francis, Sr.

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Le Roy attended T. J. Austin and Shady Grove Elementary and he graduated from Emmett J. Scott High School in 1959, in Tyler, Texas.

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He later received a Bachelor of Business Administration (Accounting) from Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas, a Master of Business Administration (Management) from the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

As an employee, he dedicated the first five (5) years following undergraduate school, to the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) in Dallas and twenty-seven and a half years to the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO).

This career with ARCO took him to Los Angeles, California where he worked as a traveling auditor and in payroll for sixteen (16) years. In 1989, he returned to Plano, Texas, and started working with the (ARCO) International Division until the winter of 1995 in January, when he retired as an oil executive for Atlantic Richfied Oil Company in California.

"They will like to thank all of the families that we have served over the past twenty-five (25) years." Their goal here at Community Funeral Home of Tyler is to continue to improve the quality of service available to the community".

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