WILLIAM S. "BILL" WHITEHURST of Fresno, CA died January 3, 2012 at the age of 89. He joined his father in the family business, Fresno Funeral Home in Los Banos, before acquiring several funeral chapels in Dos Palos, Firebaugh and in 1958 Fresno. He sold 33 funeral chapels throughout California twenty years ago, later working as a consultant for Whitehurst, Sullivan, Burns & Blair Funeral Home in central Fresno.