Crews from Medical Lake Sand and Gravel began to tear down the old funeral home this past weekend.
The Ball and Dodd funeral home and the house next to it, once used as a caretaker's residence, located on 111 W. Brooks Road, is being removed.
The city of Medical Lake purchased the funeral home in 2002 from SCI Washington Funeral Services, Inc for $175,000, paid for by a low-interest loan from the city's water/sewer fund. City Administrator Doug Ross said the intention was to move the city's Police Department into the funeral home, which was built in the 1950s.
"It was later decided it was not in the best interest of the city since it already had a fully-functioning police station," Ross sai...
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