BRUCE P. BOMBARD of Monroe Parkway, NY died October 26, 2022 at the age of 87. A New York funeral director, he served his apprenticeship with the Fairchild and Sons Funeral Home in Brooklyn and worked at the Kirshenbaum Brothers Funeral Home also in Brooklyn. Bombard worked at the Donaldson Funeral Home in Massena, Hogansburg and the surrounding areas for...
WILLIAM HAROLD “W.H” FREDLOCK, IV of Swanton, MD died October 23, 2022 at the age of 57. A funeral director, W.H. worked for the family business, Fredlock Funeral Home in Piedmont and also helped Dean Nofsinger at Markwood Funeral Home in Keyser, WV.
ELMER JAY BUSSEMA of Pigeon, MI died October 21, 2022 at the age of 94. He worked as a funeral director in the Detroit area before moving to Pigeon in 1969 and purchasing the Shetler Funeral Home. Bussema owned and operated the Shetler-Bussema Funeral Home until his retirement in 1989. He graduated from the Wayne State University Department of Mortuary...
DONALD RAY WAREHIME of Dublin, OH died October 17, 2022 at the age of 78. A funeral director for over thirty years, he owned and operated Emerson-Newkirk-Warehime Funeral Home in Kikersville alongside his wife, Judy. He finished his funeral service career as a pre-need specialist in the Dayton and Columbus areas. A 1974 graduate of the Cincinnati College of Mortuary...
FRANK DAVID CLAYBAR of Orange, TX died October 6, 2022 at the age of 74. A licensed funeral director and embalmer, he served as president and chief operating manager of Claybar Funeral Home for several years during the 1960’s and 1970’s. Under his guidance, Claybar Funeral Home was the first ambulance company in the United States to purchase and utilize...
MAURICE E. “MIKE” NEWNAM III of Easton, MD died October 11, 2022 at the age of 89. A retired funeral director for fifty years, he joined his family’s business, Maurice E. Newnam & Son. Mike took over the ownership in 1970, operating it as Newnam Funeral Home, P.A. During this time, he owned and operated funeral homes in Easton, St....
PATRICIA “PAT” MOORE of Wayne, NJ died October 8, 2022 at the age of 66. A licensed funeral director and embalmer, she worked alongside her husband, Robert Cowell Moore IV, at their family-owned business, Moore’s Home for Funerals in Wayne for more than thirty-five years, where she eventually became a co-owner. Pat received her associates degree in funeral service from...
DONALD WILLIAM “BILL” TETRICK Elizabethton, TN died October 7, 2022 at the age of 78. He owned and operated Happy Valley Memorial Park since 1980.
JERRY KENT LARRISON of Pratt, KS died October 7, 2022 at the age of 86. In 1978, Jerry and his wife, Karellen, purchased Williams Mortuary renaming it Larrison Mortuary. They later purchased Foulk Funeral Home in Turon, Forsyth Funeral Home in Medicine Lodge and Ayres Calbeck Mortuary in Pratt. He previously worked Beckwith Mortuary in Larned, managed both Culbertson Mortuary and...
JACK DENVER DAVIS of South Webster, OH died October 2, 2022 at the age of 82. A funeral director and embalmer, he was the former owner and operator of D. W. Davis Funeral Home in South Webster. A graduate of the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science, he was a member of the Ohio Funeral Directors Association and the National Funeral...