JOHN J."JACK" HARLAND
Jun 12, 2017
JOHN J."JACK" HARLAND of Port Henry, NY died June 12, 2017 at the age of 85. He worked at Harland Funeral Home for over 65 years as a licensed funeral director and served as Essex county coroner for 12 years. He graduated from the Simmons Institute of Funeral Service.
ROBERT "BOB" KENNETH GORDON
Jun 11, 2017
ROBERT "BOB" KENNETH GORDON of Secane, PA died June 11, 2017 at the age of 32. He was a training supervisor for Answering Service for Directors of Media, PA.
DWIGHT E. DENNEY
Jun 10, 2017
DWIGHT E. DENNEY of Milton, IN died June 10, 2017 at the age of 60. A licensed funeral director, he graduated from the Mid-America College of Funeral Service.
WILLIAM L. "BILL' SHORTS
Jun 9, 2017
WILLIAM L. "BILL' SHORTS SR of Ft. Myers, FL died June 9, 2017 at the age of 92. He worked as a licensed funeral director in Warren, OH before moving to Ravenna, OH in 1954 to establish the Shorts Funeral Home and Ambulance Service. In 1975, he opened his second funeral home in Streetsboro. He continued to own and operate...
PHILIP M. KAPLAN
Jun 8, 2017
PHILIP M. KAPLAN of Boynton Beach, FL died June 8, 2017 at the age of 76. He began his funeral career in 1962 in Rochester, NY, where he had owned the Parsky Funeral Home.
THOMAS "TOMMY JO" JOSEPH CUNNINGHAM
Jun 7, 2017
THOMAS "TOMMY JO" JOSEPH CUNNINGHAM of Kilgore, TX died June 7, 2017 at the age of 64. He was a licensed funeral director, owner and operator of Cunningham Funeral Home for 32 years. A graduate of the Dallas Institute of Funeral Services, he was past president of the Independent Funeral Directors Association, associate member of the National Funeral Directors and...
CLARENCE M. WOOD
Jun 6, 2017
CLARENCE M. WOOD JR of Philadelphia, PA died June 6, 2017 at the age of 90. He and his wife, Geraldine Bowser Wood founded Wood Funeral Home Inc in 1959 from inspiration of two family members who were already funeral directors, Elmer "Bus" Bullock in Harve de Grace, MD and Newton S. Bowser in Topeka, KS. In 1991, the business...
STANLEY H. FRYCZYNSKI
Jun 4, 2017
STANLEY H. FRYCZYNSKI JR of Bayonne, NJ died June 4, 2017 at the age of 90. He was a licensed funeral director, owner and operator of the S. Fryczynski & Son Funeral Home for over 40 years, which was established by his father in 1917. He graduated from the American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service.
JOHN DANIEL CARON
Jun 1, 2017
JOHN DANIEL CARON of North Andover, MA died June 1, 2017 at the age of 77. He was a licensed funeral director and embalmer in North Andover and Haverhill, having worked alongside his father at the R. George Caron Funeral Home and later the N. Power O'Connor Funeral Home. He then became the owner and operator of the Caron Funeral...
EDWARD J. WAITT
May 29, 2017
EDWARD J. WAITT of Brockton, MA died May 29, 2017 at the age of 98. He was Massachusetts' oldest active licensed funeral director for almost 70 years, during which time, he established Waitt Funeral Home with his wife, Kay in 1928. He graduated from the New England Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences in 1947.