For more than a century, this site has been the location of a funeral home serving a widespread area of the Texas Panhandle. Kentucky native Pleasant Andrew Buntin (1849-1941) brought his family to Texas in 1879, settling first in Mobeetie in Wheeler County, and the Buntins moved to Clarendon in 1888 after the arrival of the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad. P.A. Buntin rode a mail route from Clarendon through Palo Duro Canyon and Schott Gap in Briscoe County to the Caprock, changing wagons and horses to make the 60-mile round trip in a single day. He also operated a dairy and was a charter member of the Methodist church and the Masonic lodge in Clarendon. In 1899, Buntin established a funeral home here, one of the earliest in the Texas Panhandle. He and his wife, Lucy Jane (Gibbs), had four children, and their youngest son Fred continued in the family business after attending Clarendon College and the Dallas School of Embalming and joining his father's company in 1919. The business served several counties, and notable early burials conducted by the family included pioneer ranchers Charles and Mary Ann (Dyer) Goodnight in the 1920s. During World War II, Buntin Funeral Home provided military service plaques with blue stars for active personnel and gold stars for casualties for families to display in their home windows. The Buntins sold the business in 1945, though the family name remained in use with others for several years, and a number of families have since been associated with the historic operation, including the Robertsons from 1977.