Edward Leon, an owner of two other mortuaries in the Sonoma Valley has purchased the Duggan Mission Chapel in Sonoma Valley according to an article in the Index Tribune.

The Duggan family is well known in funeral home circles in Northern California where relatives still own mortuaries in San Francisco and Daly City. According to the article the Duggan Family opened the San Francisco mortuary in 1916 and the just sold operation in Sonoma Valley in 1959.

Edward Leon grew up in Windsor, atended the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science and has been working in the funeral industry since the early 1990s.

Funeral Director Daily take: Funeral businesses do change hands. There are a lot of regional and national consolidators out there, but sales like this show it can make sense for local operators to add to their businesses also.

Edward Leon – New owner of Duggan’s Mission Chapel