JAMES "JIM" VAN GROESBECK

JAMES "JIM" VAN GROESBECK of Sand Springs, OK died June 22, 2019 at the age of 71. A licensed funeral director, his career in the funeral industry began in 1968 in funeral home ambulance service work. He served as regional president for Service Corporation International and was responsible for several hundred funeral homes, cemeteries and crematories in fourteen states and Canada before becoming the owner and operator of Mobley-Groesbeck Funeral Service. Groesbeck taught in the funeral service department at the University of Central Oklahoma and was a member of the Oklahoma Funeral Directors Association and the International Selected Independent Funeral Homes.