RANDON LEE SHORT
Sep 29, 2021
RANDON LEE SHORT of Archbold, OH died September 29, 2021 at the age of 71. A licensed funeral director, he worked alongside his father, Robert Short at Short Funeral Home. He became the owner and operator of the firm upon his father's retirement in 2016.
LARRY C REAVES
Sep 24, 2021
LARRY C. REAVES of Johnson City, TN died September 24, 2021 at the age of 78. A retired licensed funeral director and grief facilitator, he worked at Appalachian Funeral Home for over forty years. He served as president of the Upper East Tennessee-Southwest Virginia Funeral Directors Association.
BOBBY G FANNING
Sep 22, 2021
BOBBY G. FANNING of Tullahoma, TN died September 22, 2021 at the age of 86. A retired funeral director, Fanning served as an embalmer in Saigon, Vietnam, 1965-1966, with the United States Air Force. After Vietnam, Bobby was employed with Robert A. Pumphrey Funeral Home in Bethesda, MD and the Danzansky and Goldberg Funeral Home in Washington DC/Rockville, MD. In...
DUPLAIN W. "PETE" RHODES
Sep 22, 2021
DUPLAIN W. "PETE" RHODES III of New Orleans, LA died September 22, 2021 at the age of 61. He managed Rhodes Limousine Service. A graduate of the Worhsam College of Mortuary Science, he was a member of the Louisiana Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors.
ALBERT J. "PETE" KRISTAN
Sep 20, 2021
ALBERT J. "PETE" KRISTAN of Mundelein, IL died September 20, 2021 at the age of 95. He worked for Tobin's Funeral Home in Waukegan before opening Burnett-Kristan Funeral Home in 1954, which became Kristan Funeral Home in 1969. A 1948 graduate of the Wisconsin Institute of Mortuary Science, he was a member of the Illinois Funeral Directors Association and the...
TIMOTHY J. STEVENHAGEN
Sep 15, 2021
TIMOTHY J. STEVENHAGEN of Manchester, OH died September 15, 2021 at the age of 72. He was a licensed funeral director and certified celebrant, working with Bacher Funeral Home and since 2006, the Swigart-Easterling Funeral Home.
DAVID A ROSS
Sep 12, 2021
DAVID A. ROSS of Akron, OH died September 12, 2021 at the age of 82. A graduate of the Simmons Institute of Mortuary Science, he joined his father in the family business, Ross Funeral Home, where he was a funeral director for over fifty years.
JACK R SCHMIDT
Sep 12, 2021
JACK R. SCHMIDT of Chagrin Falls, OH died September 12, 2021 at the age of 81. In 1976, Jack continued his father's business, which is the National Directory of Morticians (The Red Book). Jack built his legacy by hiring retired business people as salesman; of ten times employing friends. He was always up for a good joke, with his dry...
HERVEY W WALKER
Sep 12, 2021
HERVEY W. WALKER JR of McCormick, SC died September 12, 2021 at the age of 95. He was the owner and operator of Walker Funeral Home in McCormick, SC and Brown and Walker Funeral Home in Abbeville, SC. Walker graduated from The American Academy of Embalming in New York in 1946.
HENRY PRESTON SHAW
Sep 12, 2021
HENRY PRESTON SHAW of Thomasville, GA died September 12, 2021 at the age of 26. He obtained an associate degree from Ogeechee Technical College in mortuary science and was a licensed funeral director and embalmer apprentice at Hopkins Mortuary Inc.