WILLIAM R. “BILL” GOOD of Columbus, OH died February 11, 2025 at the age of 79. His father, Elden, established the Elden A. Good Funeral Home in Cincinnati in the 1960s. His wife, Becky, a third-generation funeral director and embalmer, worked at Southwick Funeral Chapel, which was founded by her grandfather, Raymond L. Southwick in 1923. Together, they owned and operated the Southwick-Good...
EDUARDO GABRIEL “ED” RIVERA of Cincinnati, OH died February 10, 2025 at the age of 82. A funeral director, he was the former owner and operator of Frederick Funeral Home. Ed was a member of the Ohio Funeral Directors Association.
DOUGLAS WAYNE MANNING of Oklahoma City, OK died on January 27, 2025 at the age of 92. Doug’s impact on the community of the bereaved and his vision for improving the funeral and death care professions will be felt for generations to come. It was while serving as the founding leader of Fellowship of Believers in Hereford that Doug became interested...
H. PAUL FRULAND of Morris, IL died January 18, 2025 at the age of 89. He joined his father, Earl Fruland as a funeral director at Fruland Funeral Home and continued to serve the community until his retirement. Fruland graduated from the Worsham College of Mortuary Science.
MYRON “ROGER” WALKER of Cape Coral, FL died January 12, 2025 at the age of 81. A former dean of student at the Wisconsin Institute of Mortuary Science, he was a professor of anatomy, embalming and mortuary science at both Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science and Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science. Walker retired in 2013. He was a member of the Ohio...
CAROL HALL PERRY of Waldoboro, ME died January 9, 2025 at the age of 77. A funeral director, she worked alongside her father, Richard and brother, Michael at her family business, Hall Funeral Home. Perry received her degree in mortuary science from Mt. Ida College in Newton, MA in 1995. A lifetime member of the Maine Funeral Directors Association, she...
HOWARD EUGENE SUBER of Fletcher, OH died January 3, 2025 at the age of 97. A third-generation funeral director for over 50 years, he was the former owner and operator of Suber Funeral Home, now Suber, Shively & Vernon Funeral Home. A member of the Ohio Funeral Directors Association, Suber formerly served on the board for Fletcher Cemetery.
BRYAN D. SPOONER of Rocky River, OH died December 26, 2024 at the age of 97. A funeral director for over 50 years, he was a senior staff member at Zeis-McGreevey & Berry-McGreevey Funeral Homes.
RONALD FREDERICK DODD of Georgetown, DE died December 25, 2024 at the age of 91. A retired funeral director for over 30 years, he served his apprenticeship with Ronald James in Millsboro before operating independently starting in 1957. Dodd purchased the funeral services business of the Carey family in Georgetown, and he merged the Dodd-Carey Funeral Home in 1967. He graduated...
WILLIAM LEO “BILL” MCREAVY SR of Minneapolis, MN died December 23, 2024 at the age of 92. A third-generation funeral director, he was the former chief executive officer of Washburn-McReavy Funeral Chapels & Cremation Services, which grew to serve the Twin Cities metro area with 17 chapels and 4 cemeteries. Bill graduated with a degree in mortuary science from the...