JASON G. REED
Mar 2, 2013
JASON G. REED of Oakwood, IL died March 2, 2013 at the age of 39. He served his apprenticeship under Kent Leasure at Houghton-Leasure Funeral Home in Georgetown. He stayed on at the firm after the Darby family purchased it and he moved to Sunset Funeral Home in 1998. In 2000, he quit directing funerals to help serve families at...
DONALD K. PURDY
Feb 25, 2013
DONALD K. PURDY of Council Bluffs, IA died February 25, 2013 at the age of 87. He was a funeral director at Cutler-O'Neil-Meyer-Woodring Funeral Home for more than 62 years, retiring in 2009.
RAYMOND D. COPELAND
Feb 15, 2013
RAYMOND D. COPELAND JR of Coraopolis, PA died February 15, 2013 at the age of 92. He was the owner of Copeland Corapolis, previously known as Troxell Funeral Home. He began working at Ritchey Funeral Home in Sewickley; and later worked as an apprentice at Brandt Funeral Home. He then served as an embalmer at Patterson Funeral Home in Atlanta;...
LUCILLE S. LUPINSKI
Feb 14, 2013
LUCILLE S. LUPINSKI of New Haven, CT died February 14, 2013 at the age of 66. She was the owner and operator of Lupinski Funeral Home. She was a member of the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association, the National Funeral Directors Association and the Greater New Haven Funeral Directors Association.
ERNEST "ERNIE" B. HALL
Feb 10, 2013
ERNEST "ERNIE" B. HALL JR of Proctorville, OH died February 10, 2013 at the age of 64. He was a second generation funeral director, embalmer, owner and operator of Hall Funeral Home for more than 40 years. A business his father, Hall Sr., established in 1931in Chesapeake before it was relocated to Proctorville. He also operated River Valley Crematory in...
JOHN THOMAS STEWART
Feb 8, 2013
JOHN THOMAS STEWART III of Washington, DC died February 8, 2013 at the age of 76. He served as president of Stewart Funeral Home Inc, the oldest African-American family owned funeral home in the District of Columbia. He provided 50 years of service to the public as a third generation funeral director, carrying on the 113 year tradition of Stewardship...
AUBREY BUSHELON
Feb 3, 2013
AUBREY BUSHELON of Birmingham, AL died February 3, 2013 at the age of 77. He was the owner of Bushelon Funeral Home, Inc, serving over 50 years as a funeral director. He was a member of the National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association and the Alabama Funeral Directors and Morticians Association.
LUTHER JOHNSON
Jan 30, 2013
LUTHER JOHNSON JR. of Liberty, SC died January 30, 2013 at the age of 82. He was the owner of Luther Johnson Funeral Home. He was one of the oldest licensed African-American funeral director in South Carolina, with over 66 years of experience in the funeral profession. He was a member of the South Carolina Morticians Association and the National...
WARD LYNN SKINNER
Jan 30, 2013
WARD LYNN SKINNER of Edinburg/Mission, TX died January 30, 2013 at the age of 61. He joined his dad, grandfather and four uncles as a third generation funeral director at Skinner Funeral Home, now known as Skinner-Silva Funeral Homes in Edinburg and Parr. He was president of Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Edinburg. In 1975, he graduated from the Commonwealth...
JAMES W. KRAUSE
Jan 29, 2013
JAMES W. KRAUSE of Brookfield, WI died January 29, 2013 at the age of 83. He was a licensed funeral director, embalmer and president of Krause Funeral Homes, which his father, William Krause, founded in 1933. He ran the business alongside his two brothers until retiring in 1994. He graduated from the Wisconsin Institute of Mortuary Science in 1950.