JAMES W. DUKE of Indianapolis, IN died July 6, 2015 at the age of 83. He served as a licensed funeral director and embalmer at Shirley Brothers Mortuary and the G. H. Herrmann Funeral Homes before retiring in 1999. He graduated from the Indiana College of Mortuary Science in 1988.
PHILIP MICHAEL "NEW" NEAL II of Catletts-burg, KY died July 5, 2015 at the age of 49. He was a second generation funeral director and owner of Neal-Kilgore & Collier Funeral Homes. He served as a Boyd County deputy coroner for 20 years. He graduated from the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science in 1987, he served on the board of...
LAWRENCE KENNETH MYERS, SR of Omaha, NE died July 2, 2015 at the age of 92. He worked alongside his brother, Robert as a licensed funeral director at Myers Funeral Home, which was established by his father William "W. L." Myers. His son Larry Myers assumed ownership of the firm after he retired in 1985 and continued to operate it...
JOSEPH H. LEVINE of Bala Cynwyd, PA died June 28, 2015. He was a fourth generation funeral director and president of Joseph Levine & Sons Memorial Chapel Inc, one of the Philadelphia area's oldest and most prominent Jewish funeral homes. After obtaining ownership of the firm in 1984, he sought to expand it by acquiring Haym Salomon Memorial Park in...
ROBERT STEPHEN "STEVE" OWEN of Cartersville, GA died June 24, 2015 at the age of 63. He was a funeral director at Owen Funeral Home for 40 years.
IRVING ROBERT EMMERICH of Avon Lake, OH died June 23, 2015 at the age of 96. He was a licensed funeral director, embalmer, founder and former owner of Emmerich Funeral Home in Amherst, OH, which is now Hempel Funeral Home. He previously served as the owner and CEO of Daniels Emmerich Funeral Home in Lakewood, OH. He graduated from the...
AUBREY CLINTON ROBERTSON of Charleston, WV formerly of Sutton, WV died June 22, 2015 at the age of 92. He began his career as a licensed funeral director and embalmer at the Wilson Funeral Home in Charleston and later the Harris Funeral Home in Logan. In 1960, he purchased the former Berry & Son Funeral Home, and continued to operate...
DONALD LEE "DON" JENSEN of Arnold, formerly of Knob Lick, MO died June 22, 2015 at the age of 81. He began his career working in Farmington for the Cozean Funeral Home, serving his apprenticeship under the late C. H. Cozean, Sr. He later moved to the St. Louis area and eventually purchased Baumman Colonial Funeral Chapel in Overland. He...
RAYMOND E. HALLOWELL of Chicago, IL died June 22, 2015. He was the owner and operator of Lakeview Funeral Home.
GILBERT L. LINVER of Rancho Cordova, CA died June 20, 2015 at the age of 73. He previously worked at the Toledo Jewish Family Services Foundation before becoming the owner and operator of Great Lakes Memorial Stone Company. He served as the executive director at Sinai Memorial Chapel in San Francisco, the only Jewish funeral home in the Bay Area,...