They join two others in central Missouri and a growing number of malls nationwide that are taking back retail centers for commerce rather than teen hangouts.

Employees of York Quality Caskets and the people of Marshfield are trying to figure out how to survive when the casket company closes next weekend, after more than four decades in business.

The company's owner, Pittsburgh-based Matthews International, said it was closing the plant and moving its work to other facilities, including one in Mexico.

Staff Sgt. Sara Robinson thought about her possible deployment to Iraq, her 1-year-old son and the computers her college no longer needs — and an idea was born.

For military parents who, like Robinson, worry about becoming strangers to their young children, the computers could help provide connections to their families back home and make the separation a bit less stressful.

Now, Allen Wamsley, the college's director of instructional support and academic computing, hopes to find a company to donate high-speed Internet service as well as webcams to the unit to make video conferencing possible.

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