The Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel is about to receive an honored guest. Ruthless media mogul Logan Roy roared his last on the stunning third episode of the final season of Succession. After much fearful dithering by his offspring, Logan’s body was removed from his private plane and headed for the most renowned funeral home in the world, Frank E. Campbell’s, where even fictional characters go, not to be seen but to be viewed.
Just five blocks from the Carlyle hotel, on the corner of Madison and 81st Street, Frank Campbell’s has sent everyone from Leona Helmsley to Heath Ledger, Enrico Caruso to Celia Cruz, Cardinal Spellman to Toots Shor, Gloria Vanderbilt to Lee Radziwill, on their final journey. Mere mortals, too, are prepared for burial or cremation. “Some people just like to see ‘Frank Campbell’ on the death certificate,” explains Dominic Carella, the former vice president of the funeral home. “It gives them class.”
