CLAUDE A MCKIBBEN JR of Hogansville, GA died March 30, 2019 at the age of 70. A licensed funeral director and embalmer for 48 years, he owned and operated the McKibben Funeral Home alongside his late father, brother and nephews. A 1971 graduate of the Dallas Institute of Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science, he was a member of the Georgia Funeral Directors Association, National Funeral Directors Association and was past president of the Academy of Graduate Embalmers of Georgia.