“The History and The Vision”

Vision in many instances is misunderstood because of its capacity for expansion, dreams and fantasies. A vision is a mental image created by the imagination and marked by tendencies towards apparitions, prophecies and/or revelations. Some people see visionaries as dreamers with impractical ideas because of their utopian foresight, yet the Bible says, “where there is no vision, the people perish”.

Mr. & Mrs. Gatling, Sr. now own the largest single Black owned and operated funeral home within the United States of America, averaging over 2,000 funerals a year. Gatling’s Chapel, Inc., located at 10133 South Halsted Street in Chicago, Illinois, was designed and built by Mr. Lafayette Gatling, Sr. Gatling’s Chapel Inc., employs in excess of 100 people.

The Gatling Family continues to forge ahead and accept the awesome challenge of serving a people.

On October 15, 1994, the vision expanded. The Gatling’s purchased 445 acres of land located in Country Club Hills, Illinois. This is the largest track of land left in Cook County and when completed, it will be the largest minority owned development in the world.

Once again, the Gatling’s, through their efforts to share, are opening up an opportunity for you to be included in this phenomenal history making vision.