WILLIAM "BILL" JOSEPH KOCH
Apr 24, 2017
WILLIAM "BILL" JOSEPH KOCH of Ridge, NY died April 24, 2017 at the age of 97. He worked as an insurance salesman, manager and investigator for 25 years. After retiring in 1982, he began working for various funeral homes on the East end of Long Island as a licensed funeral director and embalmer until he was 94. He graduated from...
PETER M. CONNELL
Apr 20, 2017
PETER M. CONNELL of Huntington, NY died April 20, 2017 at the age of 83. He was a licensed funeral director and embalmer at the M.A. Connell Funeral Home, which his father, Michael A. Connell established in 1923. After his father died in 1955, he and his younger brother inherited the business, which prompted his enrollment in mortician school. He...
JOSEPH E. NUTTER
Apr 13, 2017
JOSEPH E. NUTTER of Lost Creek, WV died April 13, 2017 at the age of 80. He was the former owner, funeral director and embalmer at Davis Weaver Funeral Home in Clarksburg, WV, retiring in 2003. A graduate of the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, he conducted a seminar on Death and the Clergy for the American College in Belgium....
JOHN V. SERPAS
Mar 29, 2017
JOHN V. SERPAS JR of Covington, LA died March 29, 2017 at the age of 93. He was a leader in the funeral industry for over 76 years with Orleans Manufacturing and Orleans Casket Company in Mandeville, LA. He was a member of the Casket & Funeral Supply Association.
DAVID L. "DAVE" SEELEY
Mar 28, 2017
DAVID L. "DAVE" SEELEY of Bellefontaine, OH died March 28, 2017 at the age of 60. He was a licensed funeral director and embalmer at Eichholtz Funeral Home for over 35 years. He was a member of the Ohio Funeral Directors Association.
GEORGE WELDON BRIGGS
Mar 28, 2017
GEORGE WELDON BRIGGS of Jennings, LA died March 28, 2017 at the age of 96. He was the oldest licensed funeral director and embalmer in the state of Louisiana. A graduate of the Southern School of Morticians in Shreveport, he was a member of the Louisiana Funeral Directors Association.
HERSCHEL ERNEST KIMES
Mar 26, 2017
HERSCHEL ERNEST KIMES, JR of Parkersburg, WV died March 26, 2017 at the age of 87. He was a licensed funeral director and owner of Kimes Funeral Home until 1977. He was the great uncle of Rob Kimes, WVFDA Executive Director and Brad Kimes, current owner of Kimes Funeral Home.
RICHARD L. EBERSOLE
Mar 24, 2017
RICHARD L. EBERSOLE of Conway Springs, KS died March 24, 2017at the age of 85. He served his apprenticeship at the Elliott Funeral Home in Hutchinson, KS in 1957 before moving to Conway Springs in 1960 to purchase Ebersole Mortuary. He continued to serve the Conway Springs community and the surrounding area for the next 57 years as a licensed...
LOUIS CHARLES "L.C" POWELL
Mar 23, 2017
LOUIS CHARLES "L.C" POWELL of Hattiesburg, MS died March 23, 2017at the age of 78. He was a licensed funeral director at Smith Funeral Home in Columbia, MS. He previously worked at Hall Fairly and Golden Gate Funeral Home & Chapel of Hattiesburg, MS.
GARY L. WALLIN
Mar 21, 2017
GARY L. WALLIN of Oak Harbor, WA died March 21, 2017 at the age of 68. He worked for Bartleson Funeral Home as a licensed funeral director and embalmer before he founded Wallin Ambulance Service in 1976, alongside his brother, Ron. In the early 1980s, the ambulance service transitioned to Whidbey General Hospital, where Gary became department head. While still...