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Dwayne Hills

Dwayne Hills

Duane Hills is a funeral director and president of Joseph Gawler's Sons funeral home in Washington, D.C., and co-author of "One Block West of the White House: Joseph Gawler's Sons – Undertakers for the Presidents."

Sep 23, 2026

As The Hearse Turns

As The Hearse Turns

Duane Hills Funeral Director and Author - One Block West Of The White House

Sep 23 · 2h 0m

Chris Boggs
Chris BoggsHOST
11:18
And then you were managing some other smaller firms, right?
Dwayne Hills
Dwayne HillsGUEST
11:29
Well, I had two firms of my own, and then I sold them and went into managing.
Dwayne Hills
Dwayne HillsGUEST
11:37
I had a cluster of four firms in New York State, and then I ended up with Western New York.
Dwayne Hills
Dwayne HillsGUEST
11:43
So if you do a line from Syracuse down to the Pennsylvania border, I had everything west of that all the way to Buffalo.
Dwayne Hills
Dwayne HillsGUEST
11:50
And then when Alderwoods came along, I was still in the management position, but then eventually I moved back to the Corning Elmira area where I had the four locations, because they were going to restructure.
Dwayne Hills
Dwayne HillsGUEST
12:04
And I said, yeah, you know, to be honest with you, I was missing funeral directing.
Dwayne Hills
Dwayne HillsGUEST
12:09
because I was always on the road in between these locations.

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Chris Boggs
Chris BoggsHOST
27:15
You know, what gave Gullers the jumpstart to become Gullers?

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