JAMES "JIM" WILLIAM STOUGH of Austin, MN died February 24, 2019 at the age of 62. A licensed Minnesota and Iowa funeral director, he served his internship and continued to work at Henry-Olsen-Fuhrman Funeral Home in Estherville, IA until 1989 when he went to work at Olsen Funeral Home, which served several communities in the Fairmont area. In 2000, Jim...
JANICE YVONNE GOFF of Highland Park, MI died February 24, 2019 at the age of 61. A licensed mortician and funeral director, she began her employment in 1980 with Wayne County Morgue and Thompson Funeral Home. She then spent 37 years with the Detroit Receiving Hospital and continued as a funeral director in the state of Michigan until her death....
ROY ALOYSIUS BETZLER JR of Portage, MI died February 21, 2019 at the age of 74. A licensed funeral director, he purchased Donovan Funeral Home in Kalamazoo in 1975 and in 1999 the Thompson & Hawley Funeral Home in Paw Paw, creating Life Story Funeral Homes. He graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in mortuary science.
RONALD LEE KERCHEVAL of Harrison, OH died February 19, 2019 at the age of 79. A retired funeral director, he was the owner and operator of Jackman-Kercheval Funeral Home in Harrison from 1975 until 1992. A 1961 graduate of the Cincinnati College of Embalming, he served as president of the Greater Cincinnati Board of Funeral Directors and was a member...
THOMAS JAMES "T.J." LESTER of Erie, PA died Feb-ruary 18, 2019 at the age of 69. In 1979, he began working for the Deaton Kennedy Co and in 1989, he and his wife, Susanne purchased the Louis A. Pick Funeral Supplies Co, and renamed it Lester and Co. They continued to serve funeral directors throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New...
DAVID JOHN CIZMADIA of Castleton, VT died February 15, 2019 at the age of 66. A licensed funeral director, he worked at several funeral homes in Vermont prior to managing the Wilson-Cooper Funeral Home in Kittery, ME for 15 years. He graduated from the Simmons Institute of Funeral Service in 1992.
WILLIAM J. LENNON of Manchester, CT died February 10, 2019 at the age of 96. He worked with local funeral homes as a licensed funeral director and served as manager of Watkins Funeral Home.
RICHARD L. DEAN SR of Beloit, OH died February 8, 2019 at the age of 74. He was the owner, operator and director of Dean's Livery Service and Dean's Fu-neral Home in Sebring for 27 years. A 1989 graduate of the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, he was a member of Ohio Funeral Directors Association and the Mount Union Cemetery...
J. ROGER PRIMM of Troy, OH, formerly of Ashland, OH died February 6, 2019 at the age of 80. A retired funeral director, he owned and operated the former Denbow-Primm Funeral Home, now known as the Denbow-Gasche Funeral Home and Crematory, for 50 years. A 1961 graduate of the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science, he served on the Board of...
MAUREEN "BARRY" MAURER of Liverpool, NY died February 3, 2019 at the age of 82. A licensed funeral director, she worked alongside her husband, John P. Maurer as vice president and secretary of the Maurer Funeral Homes in Liverpool and Baldwinsville, NY. She graduated from the Simmons School of Mortuary Science.