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Stewart Family's Plan to Open New Funeral Home outside Tyler, Texas, on Track.

By Greg Junek, Tyler Morning Telegraph, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 4--Plans are on track for the Stewart family to open a new funeral home on Old Jacksonville Highway outside of the Tyler city limits, family members said.

"We're still pretty well on schedule," Johnnie Stewart said. "The schedule said (the building would be complete) Aug. 20, and with the rain we feel it' s going to be around the first of September."

Stewart, former principal owner of Lloyd James Funeral Home and later its president and chief executive offi

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