CHARLES W. McCULLEY

CHARLES W. McCULLEY of Pueblo, CO died October 14, 2017at the age of 78. A licensed funeral director, he obtained employment with funeral homes in the San Francisco Bay Area before venturing south to Los Angeles where he joined the staff of the prestigious Angelus Funeral Home. After serving a seven year stint in the Army as a mortician, McCulley moved to Pueblo in 1968 to purchase the former Jones Mortuary alongside his wife, Petra. With a new name, Angelus Chapel Mortuaries in Pueblo and Colorado Springs became the first minority-owned funeral home to secure a government contract to take care of the arrangements for military men and women of El Paso County. They made several notable achievements, including the introduction of lavender colored vehicles at the time when black or white vehicles was the Pueblo standard. McCulley was honored by the Denver Funeral Directors Morticians Association in 2015.