Browsing: The former funeral home at 3384 Grand Ave. was then torn down earlier this month to make way for a new five-story apartment building at Grand Avenue and Elizabeth Street

   The Range Funeral Home was established in 1953 in Liberty City by Oscar L. and M. Athalie Range, one of Miami’s most prominent African American families, and expanded into Coconut Grove in partnership with the Bain family. Patrick Range, Athalie’s grandson, told Coconut Grove Spotlight that the funeral home closed after it fell into the hands of “development-minded” owners and deteriorated. The business is still running, just without a building of its own, he said.