DANIEL "DAN" WEBSTER MCBRIDE
Dec 21, 2016
DANIEL "DAN" WEBSTER MCBRIDE of Paragould, AR formerly of Rector, AR died December 21, 2016 at the age of 93. He was a funeral director, embalmer and owner of Irby Funeral Home for 35 years. He served on the board of directors and was past president for both the Arkansas Embalmers and Funeral Directors and the Arkansas State Burial Association.
LARRY E. MINOTT
Dec 20, 2016
LARRY E. MINOTT of Janesville, WI died December 20, 2016 at the age of 58. He worked as a funeral attendant at the Whitcomb-Lynch Funeral Home and Cremation Services and the Albrecht Funeral Home and Cremation Services.
HENRY & ANN JORDAN
Dec 19, 2016
HENRY "TRAIL" HUNTER JORDAN JR, 73, and his wife, ANN FIRESTONE JORDAN, 71, of Kosciusko, MS died December 19, 2016 during an early morning house fire. Trail and Ann were owners of Jordan Funeral Home, which was established by his grandfather, L. W. Jordan, Sr. in 1904 and is now in its fourth generation of continuous service to Central Mississippi....
DONALD E. KOPPELMAN
Dec 18, 2016
DONALD E. KOPPELMAN of Pekin, IL died December 18, 2016 at the age of 83. He started his funeral directing career as an apprentice with Hurley Funeral Home in Petersburg and remained with the firm as a licensed funeral director and embalmer until moving to Pekin in 1961, at which time he began working for William Weimer at the Noel...
FRANK M. PROUT
Dec 18, 2016
FRANK M. PROUT of Hutchinson Island, FL died December 28, 2016 at the age of 92. A licensed funeral director since 1948, he was also a certified public accountant. He operated an accounting service while also working at Prout Funeral Home, a firm founded by his father, Michael C. Prout in 1924 and is presently owned and operated by his...
JAMES E. "JIM" SMITH
Dec 16, 2016
JAMES E. "JIM" SMITH of Wilmington, OH died December 16, 2016 at the age of 72. He began his long career in the funeral industry working with his father, the late L. Eugene Smith at the L. Eugene Smith & Son Funeral Home in New Vienna. Together they purchased the Reynolds-Smith Funeral Home in Wilmington in 1973. He later owned...
LYLE CLINKINGBEARD
Dec 15, 2016
LYLE CLINKINGBEARD of Ava, MO died December 15, 2016 at the age of 87. He was a licensed funeral director, embalmer and co-owner of Clinkingbeard Funeral Homes, Inc, both in Ava and Gainesville, MO. He also worked alongside his wife, Florence for 56 years in operating the only ambulance company in Ava and Douglas County for over 25 years. A...
JOHN JACOBSON
Dec 13, 2016
JOHN JACOBSON of Slayton, MN died December 13, 2016 at the age of 78. He worked as a licensed funeral director at Johnson Funeral Home in Newton, IA and later at Schroeder Funeral Home in Boone, IA. In 1976, he and his wife, Elizabeth "Liz" Latham purchased the Butson Funeral Homes in Tracy and Walnut Grove, MN. He continued to...
THEODORE WILLIAM KUHNS
Dec 12, 2016
THEODORE WILLIAM KUHNS of Las Animas, CO died December 12, 2016 at the age of 87. He worked as a licensed funeral director in Titusville, PA and Clintonville, PA before moving to Las Animas in 1974 to work for Powell Funeral Home. He later purchased the firm and renamed it Powell-Kuhns Mortuary. He graduated from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary...
PETER IGNATIUS MORRISON
Dec 10, 2016
PETER IGNATIUS MORRISON of Boardman, OH died December 10, 2016 at the age of 56. He was a funeral director and pre-arrangement consultant at Edward J. Fox & Sons Inc after receiving his licenses by the Ohio Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors in 2006. He was a member of the Tri-County Funeral Directors Association and the Ohio Funeral Directors...