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Melodie Mitchell11mo ago
5727 NW 17th Ave, Miami, FL 33142
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Range Funeral Home operates from its established location at 5727 NW 17th Avenue. The facility includes chapel space with live streaming and webcasting capabilities for services, multiple visitation areas, and enhanced sanitation protocols implemented post-COVID-19 including hand sanitizer and soap stations throughout public areas.
Range Funeral Home offers both in-person and online arrangement options, with package discounts available when casket selection is included. The staff emphasizes consultative guidance through floral choices, casket selection, music, and local accommodations.
Range Funeral Home stands as one of Miami's most enduring Black-owned family businesses, founded in 1953 by Oscar L. Range, Sr. Following his death in 1960, his wife M. Athalie Range—a celebrated community matriarch—guided the funeral home for 45 years alongside her son N. Patrick Range, Sr., who became a licensed funeral director and embalmer in 1965 after training at the New England Institute of Anatomy.
The funeral home occupies a single location at 5727 NW 17th Avenue in Miami's Liberty City area. Under N. Patrick Range, Sr.'s leadership since 2006, the business has maintained its family character while adapting to contemporary needs, including post-COVID-19 safety protocols and live-streaming capabilities for services.
The Range family name carries significant historical weight in Miami. M. Athalie Range's 1968 televised appeal for calm following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination—archived by the Wolfson Archives—demonstrates the family's embedded role in the city's civic life across multiple generations.
During my consultation with the funeral director I was made to feel extremely comforted and understood during my time of bereavement. He made the business portion of the arrangements to feel as if I was planning as one of his family members. His experienced, professional demea...
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