In 1911 George M. Stephens opened Stephens & Sons as an independently owned Funeral Home. In 1926 James D. Bobbitt (great, great grandfather to our current President) went into business with Stephens & Sons, forming Stephens & Bobbitt.

Stephens & Bobbitt built a new funeral home for their business in 1928 on the west side of North F Street just below Baseline Road. The Stephens purchased the property from George N .Voss, an established local developer/contractor who designed and built the Spanish Colonial Revival style mortuary.

The public opening of the new mortuary was on Sunday, October 14, 1928. The event spurred an almost entire page of articles and illustrations in the San Bernardino Daily Sun newspaper. As stated in the article: "The modern work of a funeral director is to comfort as well as to bury and with these ends in view George M. Stephens and J.D. Bobbitt...have embodied in their new building an atmosphere of home rather than an office or business building.

The building reflected all the conveniences associated with a new funeral home during the first quarter of the twentieth century. It featured a second floor apartment for the undertaker's family, slumber rooms, offices, casket display room and chapel.

George Stephens died in August 1935, but his wife Kathryn continued as owner of the mortuary that carried the family name. In 1937, James and Lulu Bobbitt bought half interest. By 1964, the Bobbitt family had full ownership of the business and renamed it Bobbitt Memorial Chapel, dropping the long time reference to George Stephens.