John Beckwith Jr. has already outlined some of his own funeral plans, which include encasing his body in a glass casket. Like a Pope in the Vatican, he will be on display and wear a “death mask.” But ...

The Golden Gate Funeral Home may have been featured on TLC’s Best Funeral Ever, but according to a new lawsuit, the reality reportedly was anything but. Proprietor John Beckwith Jr. isn’t the only TLC ...

Like the frontman for a wildly successful musical group, funeral-home CEO John Beckwith Jr. is never out of his element or without a posse of family and loyal friends. Nor is he ever lacking for dash ...

John Beckwith III had just driven the corpse of former Olympic sprinter Ronnie Ray Smith, who had died at age 64, down the track for one final hundred-meter dash, and he seemed worried that the stunt, ...

The biggest African American funeral home in the Southwestern U.S. is located here in Dallas, and it’s called Golden Gate Funeral Home. Its CEO, John Beckwith Jr. — a man who dreams of burying ...

Fourteen lawsuits were filed against Golden Gate Funeral Home since Jan. 13, on top of three that were filed last year. Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer A Dallas funeral home known for its reality ...

Arthur Reid Jr. was 13 when his family relocated to Milwaukee in the 1950s and the future business leader in the city's African American community soon discovered where he wanted to make his mark.