LAWRENCE "LARRY" MANDEL of Highland Park, IL died October 16, 2016 at the age of 67. Larry was an interfaith life cycle celebrant and funeral director concierge. A fourth generation funeral director, he was owner and manager of Piser Funeral Services in Skokie, IL from 1980 until SCI purchased the firm. In July of 2013, Larry participated in a strike...
SAMUEL DWIGHT CAMPBELL of Rutledge, TN and Maynardville, TN died October 16, 2016 at the age of 78. He worked alongside his wife, Dottie Looney Williams Campbell in owning and operating the Cooke-Campbell Mortuary in Maynardville. A 1961 graduate of the John A. Gupton College of Mortuary Science, he was a member of the Tennessee Funeral Directors Association and the...
GREG W.E. CHAMBERLAIN of Oregon, MO died October 7, 2016 at the age of 87. In 1996, he and his wife, Betty established the Chamberlain Funeral Home & Monuments in Rock Port. They purchased a funeral home in Oregon, MO in 1986 and added Mount City in 1995. He graduated from the Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science in 1996 and...
DAVID L. MONROE of Oneonta, NY died October 7 2016 at the age of 85. He worked for Leonard Hall Funeral Home in Delhi and later for Bookout Funeral Home in Oneonta, which he eventually purchased. He owned and operated it for many years as a licensed funeral director, retiring in 1997. He graduated from the Simmons Institute of Funeral...
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...