Century Club: James H. Cole Home for Funerals

As a new leader helps a company grow, they’ll face a major question: What parts of this business stay as they are, and what parts need to evolve?

Now try answering that question at a 102-year-old company in an industry where change is rarely welcome.

That’s Antonio Green’s task as the director of his family’s funeral home, the James H.

Cole Home for Funerals in Detroit.

It was opened in 1919 by his great-grandfather, and Green grew up watching how his family served and supported its community.

He now wants to carry on that legacy — while also updating the company and setting it up for the next 100-plus years.