DONALD LEE COMBS
Oct 27, 2017
DONALD LEE COMBS of Richwood, WV died October 27, 2017 at the age of 90. A licensed funeral director and embalmer for over 60 years, he was the owner and operator of Richwood Monuments, the former owner of Mountainview Cemetery and Combs Funeral Home in Montgomery and was co-owner of Combs Funeral Home in Gauley Bridge. He graduated from the...
BILLY JACK LINDLEY
Oct 25, 2017
BILLY JACK LINDLEY of Chillicothe, MO died October 25, 2017 at the age of 90. A licensed funeral director and embalmer since 1951, he worked for the Runninberger Funeral Home in Harrisonville, MO from 1949 to 1951; the Langsford Funeral Home in Lee's Summit, MO from 1951 to 1955; and later the Ferry Funeral Home in Nevada, MO from 1955...
HUGH R. STORMS
Oct 21, 2017
HUGH R. STORMS of Potsdam, NY died October 21, 2017 at the age of 91. He was a licensed funeral director at Skyview Memorial Lawn in Vallejo, CA for 20 years, retiring in 2000. After his retirement, he moved to Potsdam, where he worked for the Seymour Funeral Home as well as the Allen-Denesha and Allen-Nichols Funeral Homes for many...
JAMES R "JIM" LOOMIS
Oct 21, 2017
JAMES R "JIM" LOOMIS SR of Buffalo, NY died October 21, 2017 at the age of 85. A third generation funeral director, he spent 68 years operating the Loomis, Offers & Loomis, Inc., which his grandfather founded in 1893. Many area funeral directors did their apprenticeship under Loomis. He was a member of the New York Funeral Directors Association and...
RUTH V. BENNETT
Oct 18, 2017
RUTH V. BENNETT of Knightdale, NC died October 18, 2017 at the age of 48. She was a licensed funeral director with Montlawn Funeral Home in Raleigh, NC up until her Myeloid Leukemia diagnosis. She was a graduate of Fayetteville Technical Community College.
DAVID E "NED" HILLIS
Oct 16, 2017
DAVID E "NED" HILLIS of Zanesville, OH died October 16, 2017 at the age of 72. He was a second generation funeral director and embalmer at Hillis Funeral Home, which he owned and operated alongside his brother, Jim until retiring in 2013. He served his country as a veteran of the United States Army during the Vietnam War in the...
CHARLES W. McCULLEY
Oct 14, 2017
CHARLES W. McCULLEY of Pueblo, CO died October 14, 2017at the age of 78. A licensed funeral director, he obtained employment with funeral homes in the San Francisco Bay Area before venturing south to Los Angeles where he joined the staff of the prestigious Angelus Funeral Home. After serving a seven year stint in the Army as a mortician, McCulley...
JOHANNES HARDY "JOE" SPRINGER
Oct 13, 2017
JOHANNES HARDY "JOE" SPRINGER of Salina, UT died October 13, 2017 at the age of 83. He joined his father, Johannes Dirk Springer in the mortuary business in 1959 and owned and operated Springer Turner Funeral Home in Richfield and Salina until his death. He helped start the first ambulance service that served the Salina area. He graduated from the...
VEARL M. FRANKE
Oct 11, 2017
VEARL M. FRANKE of Latrobe, PA died October 11, 2017 at the age of 73. A licensed Pennsylvania, Illinois and West Virginia funeral director, he retired in 1998 after 24 years in the business. He graduated from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science.
JAMES ALOYSIUS MCLAUGHLIN
Oct 8, 2017
JAMES ALOYSIUS MCLAUGHLIN JR of Jersey City and Spring Lake Heights, NJ died October 8, 2017 at the age of 80. He was the owner and operator of McLaughlin Funeral Home in Jersey City, NJ.