GEORGE R. "BUD" BROWN
Jan 24, 2021
GEORGE R. "BUD" BROWN II of Hamilton, OH died January 24, 2021 at the age of 82. For over fifty years, he worked alongside his wife, Marie, in owning and operating the Brown Dawson Funeral Home. A graduate of the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science, he was a member of the Ohio Funeral Directors Association.
CHARLES "CHUCK" G. MAYER
Jan 23, 2021
CHARLES "CHUCK" G. MAYER of Chelsea, WI died January 23, 2021 at the age of 94. A longtime member of the Wisconsin Funeral Directors Association, he worked for Schmidt and Barlet Funeral Home in Milwaukee. Mayer worked for Taylor Funeral Home in Rib Lake, eventually purchasing it. He continued to own and operate it from 1961 until 1977, when he...
HOWARD M BONIFACE
Jan 23, 2021
HOWARD M. BONIFACE JR of Rensselaer, NY January 23, 2021 at the age of 77. He was a licensed funeral director at the Wm. J Rockefeller Funeral Home in Rensselaer for twenty years before retiring. Boniface graduated from Hudson Valley Community College in 1955 with an associate's degree in mortuary science and was a member of the Capital District Funeral...
GLADYS EDWARDS WALLACE
Jan 22, 2021
GLADYS EDWARDS WALLACE of Broadview, IL died January 22, 2021 at the age of 84. She co-founded the Wallace Broadview Funeral Home in 1988 and was member of the 100 Black Women of Funeral Service, Illinois Select Funeral Directors Association and the National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association, where she formerly served as president of the National Ladies Auxiliary. She...
HAROLD C. HENRY
Jan 21, 2021
HAROLD C. HENRY of Mount Clemens, MI died January 21, 2021 at the age of 84. In the mid-1980s, he along with the late Bobby Hill, James Fishback Sr and Irene Henry, created United Memo-rial Funeral Home.
JACK EUGENE FROST
Jan 20, 2021
JACK EUGENE FROST of Braselton, GA died January 20, 2021 at the age of 89. He was the owner and operator of Memorial Park Funeral Homes and Cemeteries in Gainesville, Flowery Branch and Braselton for over 50 years. Frost was past president of the Southern Cemetery Association, vice president of the American Cemetery Association and president of the Georgia Cemetery...
JAMES E HEALD
Jan 16, 2021
JAMES E. HEALD of Milford, NH died January 16, 2021 at the age of 89. A retired funeral director for over 40 years, he was the former owner of Smith & Heald Funeral Home, currently owned by his daughters, Deborah Quinlan and Gretchen Heald-Brooks. A graduate of the New England Institute of Anatomy, Sanitary Science and Embalming in Boston, he...
STEPHEN C BURKE
Jan 15, 2021
STEPHEN C. BURKE of Lewistown, PA died January 15, 2021 at the age of 70. He was a funeral director at Baumeister-Orcutt Funeral Home, York, PA for seven years before leaving the funeral business in 1979. In 1990, at the urging of Charlie Hershberger, Burke returned to the funeral business with Hoen-stine Funeral Home, Inc, becoming a partner in 1992...
LAWRENCE JAMES BELLEROSE
Jan 14, 2021
LAWRENCE JAMES BELLEROSE of Putnam, CT died January 14, 2021 at the age of 82. He was the former owner of the Gilman and Valade Funeral Homes of Putnam and North Grosvenor Dale, CT. Bellerose began working for the Gilman family at the age of 16. He served his apprenticeship with James T. Pratt Funeral Service in Hartford. In 1973,...
CARL C TIMKO
Jan 11, 2021
CARL G. TIMKO of Fredonia, NY died January 11, 2021 at the age of 81. A licensed funeral director, he owned Orcutt-Timko Funeral Home in Dunkirk and with his wife Trish, owned Larson-Timko Funeral Home in Fredonia. A graduate of the Simmons Institute of Mortuary Science, he was vice president of the Erie-Niagara Funeral Directors Association, and a member of...