RICHARD ARTHUR "DICK" PERSCHEL

RICHARD ARTHUR "DICK" PERSCHEL, SR of Durham, NC died August 12, 2013 at the age of 92. In 1985, he was elected chairman of the board of Mastercraft Casket Company Inc of Graham, NC, having served as the founding vice president in 1979. He was a New York State licensed funeral director, and previously worked for the Frasier Funeral Home in Syracuse and spent 25 years of his career with the Marsellus Casket Company, Inc. He graduated from the American Academy of Mortuary Science in 1945.