JOHN F. DOWLING

JOHN F. DOWLING JR of Florence, SC died September 28, 2016 at the age of 69. He began working for the Stoudenmire Funeral Home in the early eighties as a licensed funeral director and embalmer, and in 1988, he and his wife, Wanda purchased the business, renaming it Stoudenmire-Dowling Funeral Home. He previously worked at the Belk-King Funeral Home in Darlington and served other funeral homes throughout his career before retiring in 2012. He graduated from the Kentucky School of Mortuary Science in Louisville and was a member of the South Carolina Funeral Directors Association, National Funeral Directors Association and served as president of the South Carolina State Board of Funeral Service from 1998 until 1999.