KEITH E. STOFFELS of Lady Lake, FL formerly of Pontiac, MI died February 24, 2021 at the age of 93. A retired funeral director and embalmer, he worked at Harris Funeral Home in Pontiac for 25 years; Page-Theus Funeral Home in Leesburg; Banks, Page-Theus Funeral Home in Wildwood and Hamlin; Hilbish Funeral Directors in Eustis; and Steverson, Hamlin and Hilbish...
DEAN E. TRENT of Kingsport, TN died February 22, 2021 at the age of 85. He began his career as a funeral director at Gate City Funeral Home in 1959. He worked alongside his wife, Martha, his three daughters Judy, Deana and Jodi, as well as his nephew, Brent Warner at the Carter-Trent Funeral Homes in Kingsport, Church Hill and...
JOE BEN TUCKER of Central City, KY died February 20, 2021 at the age of 81. A licensed funeral director for 62 years, he was the owner and operator of Tucker Funeral Home since 1958. Tucker was a member of the National Funeral Directors Association policy board, president of the Funeral Directors Association of Kentucky from 1982–1983, and was a...
THOMAS J. RUECKL of Luxemburg, WI died February 20, 2021 at the age of 80. In 1972 he became an owner of McMahon Funeral Home in Luxemburg and served the community as a funeral director for fifty years. Rueckl retired in 2005. A 1963 graduate of the Wisconsin institute of Mortuary Science, he was a member of the Fox River...
DR. TOMMY JOE CARNEY SR of Blytheville, AR died February 17, 2021 at the age of 82. He was co-owner of the Carney Funeral Home and Cemetery. Carney was coroner of Mississippi County for three terms and continued as a deputy coroner since his retirement.
RICHARD "RICK" ALVIN RESCH of Gonzales, TX died February 15, 2021at the age of 60. A licensed funeral director and embalmer, he worked with Parkside Chapel Funeral Home in Hereford from 2006 to 2010, then he expanded his career to Levelland, where he began working for SCI at George Price Funeral Home until 2012. Resch later became the location manager...
JEFFERSON D. "JD" INGRAM of Ridgeland, MS died February 9, 2021 at the age of 74. He founded Ingram Construction Company, Inc alongside his wife, Bettie. JD previously worked at McCleskey Mausoleum Associates as superintendent and production manager. He was past president of the Inter-national Memorialization Supply Association.
GERALD W. "JERRY" VICKERY JR of Troy, PA died February 5, 2021 at the age of 82. He was the owner and operator of Vickery Funeral Home, which was established by his father, Gerald W. Vickery Sr in 1946. A 1962 graduate of the Simmons School of Mortuary Science, he was a member of the Pennsylvania Funeral Directors Association, National...
TIMOTHY E. PERINE of Shinnston, WV died February 5, 2021 at the age of 58. A funeral director for over 35 years, he founded Perine Funeral Home in 2005. Perine graduated from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science in 1985.
PAUL E. BEKAVAC of Gibsonia and Key West, FL formerly of Clairton, PA died February 4, 2021 at the age of 74. A retired funeral director, he was the owner and operator of the Paul E. Bekavac Funeral Home in Elizabeth, PA. Bekavacs graduated from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science.