WILLIAM "MIKE" SMITH of Woodbury, TN died August 9, 2015 at the age of 72. He worked for Hunter Funeral Home in Sparta before establishing Smith Funeral Home in 1971. In 1981, the firm burned to the ground, and with help from his family and friends, he was quickly able to rebuild it. A graduate of the Kentucky School of...
RAYMOND CLINTON GARBER of Versailles, MO died August 8, 2015 at the age of 94. He was the owner and operator of Kidwell-Garber Funeral Homes, Kidwell Granite Works and Garber Memorial Estates serving the communities of Versailles, Gravois Mills, Laurie and Sunrise Beach for over 70 years. He was previously the owner of Wilbert Vault and Sedalia Monument Company. He...
RAYMOND CLINTON GARBER of Versailles, OH died August 8, 2015 at the age of 94. He was the owner and operator of Kidwell-Garber Funeral Homes, Kidwell Granite Works and Garber Memorial Estates in Versailles, Gravois Mills, Laurie and Sunrise Beach for over 70 years. He was previously the owner of Wilbert Vault and Sedalia Monument Company. He graduated from the...
MARK LIGGETT HALL of Warren, OH died August 4, 2015 at the age of 87. He was a licensed funeral director for over 50 years and served as president of the Carl W. Hall Funeral Service, Inc for 28 years. He graduated from the Cleveland College of Mortuary Science.
ALFRED D. THOMAS of Milton, MA died August 4, 2015 at the age of 91. He was the late owner, operator and funeral director of the Alfred D. Thomas Funeral Home, where he had lived since 1979. Before establishing his first funeral home in Mattapan in the early 1950s, he worked with his brother, Alexander F. Thomas, Sr., at the...
DAVID W. CALDWELL of Greenwood, AR died August 3, 2015 at the age of 64. He was a funeral director at Hot Springs Funeral Home and later at the McConnell Funeral Home. He retired in 2012.
JIM WARD of Klamath Falls, OR died July 28, 2015 at the age of 72. He was a third generation funeral director and owner of Ward's Klamath Funeral Home Inc, which was established in the 1920s. He was a member and served as president of the Oregon Funeral Directors Association. He was appointed to a four year term to the...
JAMES ALLEN McMULLEN SR of Columbus, GA died July 26, 2015 at the age of 75. He was the owner and operator of McMullen Funeral Home, which he established alongside his family in 1987. He previously worked at Striffler-Hamby Mortuary as a funeral director and served thousands of families in Muscogee County for over 50 years. He graduated from the...
MOSES P. SMOOT of Pamplico, SC died July 25, 2015 at the age of 73. He was a licensed funeral director, embalmer, owner and operator of People's Funeral Home. A graduate of the historic Atlanta College of Mortuary Science, he was a member of the South Carolina Morticians Association.
ALFRED STANLEY "AL" DODSON, JR of Sand Springs, OK died July 23, 2015 at the age of 77. He was a licensed funeral director, embalmer and former owner of Mobley-Dodson Funeral Service, which was established in 1915. He retired from the funeral home in 2009 after about 27 years with his family's company.