Funkhouser passes 80-year service mark

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Posted: July 25, 2012

The Winchester Star

Robert W. Claytor, president of H.N. Funkhouser & Co., stands in the company's warehouse in Winchester. (Photo by Scott Mason/The Winchester Star)

Conor Gallagher

WINCHESTER — It was April of 1932 when a 31-year-old Winchester man began selling kerosene for cooking stoves and lamps.

That man was Hugh Newell Funkhouser, and from that humble...