GEORGE EMERSON RAY of Philadelphia, PA died April 14, 2015 at the age of 94. In 1951, he and his wife, the late Deso Collins Ray established Ray Funeral Home Inc, where he worked as a licensed funeral director. He was previously employed with the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company before serving his apprenticeship with the George Stanton Funeral Home....
CLARENCE BOWMAN JR of Dallas, TX died April 9, 2015 at the age of 61. He was the owner of the former Bowman Funeral Chapel which was established in 1952.
JOHN K. MARVEL of Stonington, IL died April 6, 2015 at the age of 58. He was a funeral director and graduated from the Southern Illinois University with a degree in Mortuary Science in 1976.
LARRY G. COOL of Sioux Falls, SD died March 26, 2015 at the age of 68. He was a fourth generation funeral director at Cool Funeral Home in Platte and later accepted a position at Eidsness Funeral Home in Brookings, retiring in 2014. He also did cemetery mapping for several South Dakota communities. He graduated from the Chicago School of...
DAVID A. KIMES of Parkersburg, WV died March 24, 2015 at the age of 59. He was a licensed funeral director and embalmer in the state of West Virginia for almost 40 years. Along with his family, he owned and operated Kimes Funeral Home and Cremation Services. In 1987, he graduated from the Kentucky School of Mortuary Science, where he...
TERRENCE "TERRY" R. SAYLER of Queen Creek, AZ, formerly of Washburn, ND died March 20, 2105 at the age of 71. He served his internship with Peterson-Schult Funeral Home in Valley City before working as a licensed funeral director and embalmer at Aarthun-Goetz Funeral Home in Hazen, ND; Goetz Funeral Home in Washburn, where he worked part-time until his retirement...
STEVE M. MACK of New York, NY died March 19, 2015 at the age of 63. He began his career as an apprentice director for Service Corporation International's Claude R. Boyd Funeral Home in Babylon, NY. Over the next decade, he advanced through the ranks at Boyd and other SCI funeral homes in New York City. In 1983, He became...
SANDRA K. FOX of Ogdensburg, NY and winter resident of Estero, FL died March 14, 2105 at the age of 64. She became employed at Fox Funeral Homes in Ogdensburg, Heuevlton, Lisbon and Hammond, NY, where she worked alongside her husband, Richard Fox as a licensed funeral director until semi-retiring in 1999 and fully retiring in 2013. In 2008, ICCFA...
LEON J. "LEO" KROLAK of Newark, NY died March 10, 2015 at the age of 87. He worked as a licensed funeral director at Parker-Rayfield Funeral Home in Newark and Boeheim Funeral Home in Lyons for many years. He also assisted other funeral homes throughout the Finger Lakes area. A graduate of Simmons Institute of Mortuary Science, he was a...
CLISTA "PAT" MARTIN of Dayton, OH died March 7, 2015 at the age of 80. She was co-founder of the George C. Martin Funeral Home, where she worked alongside her husband, George C. Martin for the past 50 years.