JOHN C. "JACK" GREER

JOHN C. "JACK" GREER of Prospect Park, PA died July 16, 2011 at the age of 88. In 1946, he began working for the Griffith Funeral Chapel in Norwood, serving as a general manager for several years before retiring in 1991. He had written several articles about the funeral service profession in many professional trade publications. He was a graduate and part-time teacher at the Eckels School of Mortuary Science in Philadelphia. He was awarded a full scholarship to study at the National Funeral Foundation School in Evanston. In the 1980s, he worked as a part-time instructor, teaching accounting for 10 years at what is now the American Academy-McAllister Institute of Mortuary Science in New York. He was a member of the Delaware County Funeral Directors Association and the Pennsylvania Funeral Directors Association.