GREGORY G. DEJOHN
Apr 26, 2024
GREGORY G. DEJOHN of Staten Island, NY died April 26, 2024 at the age of 70. A licensed funeral director, he worked for Silverton Memorial Funeral Home in Toms River, NJ and was the owner and operator of Cobble Hill Chapels in Brooklyn, NY.
MARY K. STOVALL-TAPLEY
Apr 25, 2024
MARY K. STOVALL-TAPLEY of Hurtsboro, AL died April 25, 2024 at the age of 102. She was a licensed funeral director and embalmer at Stovall Funeral Home, Inc. A member of the East Alabama Funeral Directors Association, Stovall-Tapley was the recipient of many awards including the 1986 National Sojourner Meritorious Service Award from the Alabama Funeral Directors & Morticians Association.
JOHN ROBERT “JOHNNY BOB” WILLIAMS
Apr 19, 2024
JOHN ROBERT “JOHNNY BOB” WILLIAMS of Maysville, OK died April 19, 2024 at the age of 77. A licensed funeral director and embalmer, he and his wife, Bobby Lou, owned and operated Winans Funeral Home for 43 years. Williams also acted as Maysville Ambulance Director for 25 years and had served as the Maysville Cemetery Sexton for 50-plus years. A 1972...
MICHAEL D. WERNER
Apr 14, 2024
MICHAEL D. WERNER of Key West, FL, formerly of Waupun, WI died April 14, 2024 at the age of 80. He purchased Beyers Funeral Home in 1969, which is now known as Werner Harmsen. Mike owned and operated it until his retirement in 2017 and was honored for 50 years of practice as a funeral director. He graduated from mortuary...
ARTHUR THOMAS “UNK” QUEEN
Apr 11, 2024
ARTHUR THOMAS “UNK” QUEEN of Sykesville, MD, formerly of Randallstown, MD died April 11, 2024 at the age of 83. He had been in the funeral business for over 60 years, having worked at Davis Weaver Funeral Home in West Virginia as a teenager. Queen came to Maryland at the age of twenty to work at Tickner Funeral Home in Baltimore,...
TERRANCE J. “TERRY” REARDON
Apr 10, 2024
TERRANCE J. “TERRY” REARDON of Boardman, OH died April10, 2024 at the age of 66. In 1987, he began his professional career as a funeral director at Higgins Funeral Homes. The Reardon name was added in 1999 when Terry and his wife and business partner, Judy Higgins-Reardon, became the proprietors. Together with their son, Terrance, they own funeral homes in Austintown,...
RAY MISH
Apr 3, 2024
RAY MISH of Bakersfield, CA died April 3, 2024 at the age of 99. He received his degree in mortuary science and became a licensed funeral director in the state of California. Mish began working for two local mortuaries in 1947 in Bakersfield. In 1960, he bought a vacant building in Oildale, the former College Hospital, and opened his first funeral...
JACK D. BRIGGS
Mar 25, 2024
JACK D. BRIGGS of Lexington, NC died March 25, 2024 at the age of 84. A licensed funeral director since 1965, he served the communities of Davidson, Montgomery, Randolph, and Richmond counties for nearly 65 years. Briggs began working for a funeral home and furniture store in Denton in 1959 under the tenure of the late C. C. Hooever. He had...
RICHARD “DICK” JAMES PINKART
Mar 24, 2024
RICHARD “DICK” JAMES PINKART of Oconto, WI died March 24, 2024 at the age of 90. A funeral director, he began working for Blair McQueen, which later became the McQueen-Pinkart Funeral Home. Dick graduated from the Wisconsin Institute of Mortuary Science in 1957.
ERNEST W. MILLS
Mar 22, 2024
ERNEST W. MILLS of Richmond, IN died March 22, 2024 at the age of 89. A funeral director, he was employed for 10 years by Donan & Son Funeral Home and Welfer Funeral Home. Mills and his wife, Betty purchased both firms in 1967 and established the firm of Doan & Mills at the current location in 1974. A 1959 graduate of the...