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,...
WILLIAM THEODORE BEAR, II of Churchville, VA died June 18, 2015 at the age of 90. He was a fifth generation funeral director at Bear Funeral Home for more than 68 years and graduated from the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science.
MORRIS EARL BANKSTON of Ozark, AL died June 16, 2015 at the age of 73. He was a funeral director and founder of Fuqua-Bankston Funeral Home. He served as Dale County's coroner for more than 30 years before retiring in 2006.
GARY ANDREWS of Bronx, NY died June 15, 2015 at the age of 62. He was a licensed funeral director having worked at Hellman Memorial Chapels, George T. Davis Funeral Home, David J. Hodder Funeral Home, Coxe & Granziano Funeral Home and Weinstein Memorial Chapel.