The Phippen family set the professional tone for funeral service in Parkhill in the 1800’s.  Starting the usual way, as furniture builders, the Phippen’s expanded their services into providing coffins and the assistive services that surround times of death.  In 1920 Marshall Box had the opportunity to purchase the former undertakers business Forster and McPhee and later Phippen and Brown Funeral Homes.  Marshall continued to manage the funeral service until 1935 when his son T. Laurence Box became a licensed funeral director.  Both Marshall and Laurence continued to work together, at 251 Main Street, Parkhill.  At that time most funerals were conducted from homes and churches, therefore there wasn’t a need for the modern day funeral home until 1949.  Laurence purchased property on Broad Street in Parkhill where the funeral home is now located.  Marshall didn’t get to see the start of the modern facilities, he passed away on November 26, 1946.  Laurence had two sons that would eventually join him in the daily operations.  Laurence’s oldest son James M. Box graduated from the Canadian School of Embalming in 1960 where he assisted with the operation until his death in 1969.  Laurence’s second son Charles “Chuck” Box graduated in 1966 and joined the family business in 1968. The Gilpin family, another longstanding funeral service provider took over in 2011 and sold the business to the Denning family in 2024.