Anyone who’s ever attended a funeral is well aware of how it typically falls to a hearse to get a casket from the mortuary to the cemetery. If you’ve ever wondered how a casket gets from the manufacturer to the mortuary, Thacker Caskets CEO C.J. Thacker is well-positioned to demonstrate, thanks to his recently completed, 3-1/2-year restoration of a purpose-bodied 1960 Ford F-350 originally purchased and operated by his father, Carl.
Though Thacker Caskets is currently based in Monrovia, Md., along the Interstate 70 corridor between Frederick and Baltimore, it was originally founded as the Old Dominion Casket Co. in Washington, D.C., back in 1939. After 85 years of “providing honest products at
