Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer is building a mystery.
Her neighbors in Palo Alto, Calif., were puzzled Tuesday after a local paper identified her as the buyer of the city’s oldest funeral home, the 114-year-old Roller & Hapgood & Tinney.
The funeral parlor is just down the street from Mayer’s current home, valued at $5.2 million.
Mayer is buying the 1.16-acre site at 980 Middlefield Road, according to the Palo Alto Weekly, which cited sources inside the funeral home.
The property is valued at around $850,000, including its parking lot, according to the county assessor’s office.
But Paul Roller, the funeral home’s president and owner, told The Post he doesn’t know the identity of the buyer because it was done through a limited-liability corporation.
“We sold that land to an LLC by the name of 980 Middlefield Road LLC. I don’t even know who the managing director is, or the owners,” Roller said.
The 980 Middlefield LLC started out as Additto LLC before changing its name, he said.
California records show that Additto shares the same estate-planning lawyer and address as another LLC, Mellunmaki, that lists Marissa Mayer as an officer.
Adding to the mystery, Roller said he did suggest Mayer as a possible buyer to the real-estate broker because she often rents out the funeral home’s parking lot for parties.
“Marissa Mayer does live down the street, about a block and a quarter,” Roller said. “And she has all these parties — gala affairs. ”
Mayer didn’t return a request for comment.