DAVID L. MONROE of Oneonta, NY died October 7, 2016 at the age of 85. He began working at Leonard Hall Funeral Home in Delhi and later the Bookhout Funeral Home in Oneonta as a licensed funeral director and embalmer. He owned and operated the funeral home until his retirement in 1997. He graduated from the Simmons Institute of Mortuary...
JAMES D. BETTS of Geneva, WI died October 5, 2016 at the age of 72. He was the owner and operator of Betts Funeral Home in Elkhorn from 1976 until his retirement in 2008. He graduated from the Wisconsin Institute of Mortuary Science in Milwaukee.
JAMES D. BETTS of Geneva, WI died October 5, 2016 at the age of 72. He was the owner and operator of Betts Funeral Home in Elkhorn, WI from 1976 until his retirement in 2008. He graduated from the Wisconsin Institute of Mortuary Science.
JAMES O. KISHLER of Columbus, OH died October 1, 2016 at the age of 89. He co-founded Brucker & Kishler Funeral Home in 1951 and was a graduate of the Cleveland College of Mortuary Science.
DONALD EUGENE "GENE" WILSON JR of New Braunfels, TX died September 28, 2016 at the age of 45. He was a licensed funeral director and embalmer who taught Japanese funeral personnel modern embalming techniques overseas for nearly 20 years. He graduated from the San Antonio College, Department of Mortuary Science in 1991. Gene was most recently employed at Doeppenschmidt Funeral...
JOHN F. DOWLING JR of Florence, SC died September 28, 2016 at the age of 69. He began working for the Stoudenmire Funeral Home in the early eighties as a licensed funeral director and embalmer, and in 1988, he and his wife, Wanda purchased the business, renaming it Stoudenmire-Dowling Funeral Home. He previously worked at the Belk-King Funeral Home in...
PAUL WOODWARD of West Chicago, IL, formerly of Winfield, IL died September 26, 2016 at the age of 86. He was as a licensed funeral director and embalmer at Wheaton Funeral Home before establishing Woodward Funeral Home in 1996. He operated the firm for almost a quarter century before selling it in 1990 and retiring. He graduated from Worsham College...
DAVID P. BYERS of Murrells Inlet, SC, formerly of Parkersburg, WV died September 22, 2016 at the age of 62. He was a licensed funeral director at the Leavitt Funeral Home in Parkersburg for 37 years and managed the Goldfinch Funeral Home-Beach Chapel in Murrells Inlet for the past five years. He graduated from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science.
ROBERT J. MORELAND of Westerville, OH died September 20, 2016 at the age of 72. He was co-owner and operator of Moreland Funeral Home and a graduate of the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science.
CURTIS L. SIMPSON SR of Los Angeles, CA died September 12, 2016 at the age of 67. He was a licensed funeral director and mortician for 40 years, having worked at the historic Barnum Funeral Home in Americus, GA and later founded the Simpson Family Mortuary, which consisted of five locations throughout California that he formerly owned and operated. A...