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Last of Their Breed
By Geoff Williams - Entrepreneur.com
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The funeral industry is well known for morbidly bragging that it'll never go out of business. But some industries aren't guaranteed to remain indefinitely.
Barbara Wick, 68, joined the Wick family business in 1960 when she married her late husband, Martin. That was during the heyday of the pipe organ industry, she says. "A lot of churches were being built, and people were putting in pipe organs." Today, the churches are still going up, of course, but the demand for expensive, hand-crafted organs has long since disappeared.
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