Ed Keller began building the mortuary in 1929. Edker L. Lee began working as the sweep up boy after the carpenters would finish for the day at the young age of 15. Ed Lee then decided to go to mortuary school ' career in funeral service began out of a friendship between ' father, Charles Lee, and the funeral home owner, Ed Keller. Ed Lee graduated from Indiana College of Embalming in Indianapolis in 1939. He received his license in December 1939.