WESTON H ANDERSON
Apr 28, 2018
WESTON H. ANDERSON of Bloomington, MN died April 28, 2018 at the age of 81. He was a licensed funeral director for over 50 years and the second-generation owner of Henry W. Anderson Mortuary in Minneapolis and Apple Valley, taking over in 1967 after the death of his father, Henry W. Anderson.
JAMES NELSON BLOWER
Apr 28, 2018
JAMES NELSON BLOWER of Athens, OH died April 28, 2018 at the age of 77. He began and ended his career as a funeral director in Columbus working for the Rutherford Funeral Home. He had owned and operated the James N. Blower Funeral Home in McArthur and Wellston, Hughes-Blower Funeral Home in Athens, Rawlings-Coats-Blower Funeral Home in Middleport, and the...
WILLIAM G. MCNEELAN
Apr 23, 2018
WILLIAM G. MCNEELAN JR of Holton, IN died April 23, 2018 at the age of 94. He was a funeral director in the Holton and Versailles area for 60 years beginning in partnership with Ern Duke at Holton in 1952. In 1957 he along with Clifford Smith formed the McNeelan & Smith Funeral Home. In 1980 he joined the Bovard...
ROBERT "BOB" P. HEITGER
Apr 14, 2018
ROBERT "BOB" P. HEITGER SR of Massillon, OH died April 14, 2018 at the age of 98. A licensed funeral director and embalmer for over 70 years, he was a third generation owner of the family business, Heitger Funeral Home, where he served as the patriarch until retiring in 1988. He graduated from the Cleveland School of Embalming in 1947.
HERBERT KAUFMAN
Apr 11, 2018
HERBERT KAUFMAN of Southfield, MI died April 11, 2018 at the age of 94. He was a longtime funeral director and owner of the Ira Kaufman Chapel, which was established by his father, Ira Kaufman in 1941. He took over the reins in the 1950s and was to be honored by the Michigan Funeral Directors Association for 60 years in...
JANE M. TARBELL
Apr 10, 2018
JANE M. TARBELL of Akwesasne, NY died April 10, 2018 at the age of 62. She was a licensed funeral director at the Donaldson Funeral Home in Massena for the past several years.
SANDRA STRONG FITZGERALD
Apr 5, 2018
SANDRA STRONG FITZGERALD, a lifelong resident of Elephant Butte and Albuquerque, NM died April 5, 2018. She was a pioneering woman in international funeral service and a fourth generation in the family funeral home. Her husband Edward J. Fitzgerald is a past president of the National Funeral Directors Association.
TERRENCE R. VANSUCH
Apr 1, 2018
TERRENCE R. VANSUCH of Louisville, OH died April 1, 2018 at the age of 65. A licensed funeral director for over 25 years, he had worked at the Wasko Funeral Home in Campbell, OH before joining Arnold Funeral Home in Canton, OH in 1983, retiring in 2017. He was a 1976 graduate of the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science and...
THOMAS P. ROZGA
Mar 30, 2018
THOMAS P.ROZGA of Milwaukee, WI died March 30, 2018 at the age of 95. A licensed funeral director for over 60 years, he was a third generation owner and operator of Rozga Funeral Home, which has three locations in Milwaukee. He was a member of the Wisconsin Funeral Directors Association and the National Funeral Directors Association.
ROBERT J. BIGGINS
Mar 29, 2018
ROBERT J. BIGGINS of Hanson, MA died March 29, 2018 at the age of 61. He was a first generation funeral director, embalmer and chief executive officer of Magoun Biggins Funeral Home, a family owned and operated firm that he purchased in 1986. He graduated from the New England Institute of Funeral Service in Newton in 1977, which later became...