KENNETH MARVIN PURCELL
May 9, 2020
KENNETH MARVIN PURCELL of Vass, NC died May 9, 2020 at the age of 55. A graduate of Gupton-Jones College of Funeral Service, he became a licensed mortician and funeral director in 1986, and was a certified licensed insurance agent for 25 years. He established Purcell Funeral Home in Southern Pines NC in 1995. His second funeral home was established...
JEREMIAH C. GAFFNEY
May 6, 2020
DR. JEREMIAH C. GAFFNEY, III of Inwood, NY died May 6, 2020 at the age of 65. He was the second-generation owner of Jeremiah C. Gaffney Funeral Home Inc. in Inwood. In addition to his funeral education, he held a degree in Biochemistry and a doctor-ate in Economics.
RICHARD "DICK" LEE KAATZ
May 5, 2020
RICHARD "DICK" LEE KAATZ of Elk Township, MI died May 5, 2020 at the age of 82. Owner of Kaatz Funeral Directors, he graduated from Wayne State University with a Mortuary Science Degree in 1960. He purchased the former Peters Funeral Home in Yale, MI in 1960, where he began working in 1953. He purchased the former Gillian Funeral Home...
BOBBY M. PROFFITT
May 2, 2020
BOBBY M. PROFFITT of Brownsville, KY died May 2, 2020 at the age of 89. He started working with Patton Funeral Home as a licensed funeral director and embalmer in August of 1972. A funeral director for over sixty years, he was the manager of Patton Funeral Home's Park City Chapel.
MARY LOU COTTON
May 1, 2020
MARY LOU COTTON of Kensington, OH died May 1, 2020 at the age of 84. She was a funeral director, EMT, and president of Maple Cotton Funeral Home & Ambulance Service, Inc., Kensington. She received her first EMT certification in 1973, and her funeral director's license in April 1994. She was a member of the Ohio Funeral Directors Association District...
JOHN PAUL GEE
Apr 29, 2020
JOHN PAUL GEE of Kokomo, IN died April 29, 2020 at the age of 51. He earned a degree in Mortuary Science at Vincennes University in 1989, and his Indiana Funeral Director's License in 1990. Since 2001, he had served families as a funeral director at Ellers Mortuary, Kokomo. He was also a board member of Crown Point Cemetery and...
KEVIN STOUT
Apr 28, 2020
KEVIN STOUT of Whitestone, Queens, NY died April 28, 2020 at the age of 57. He joined the family's funeral home business, taking after his father, before going to work for Thomas F. Boland Funeral Parlor in College Point.
CYNTHIA GILMORE DOUTHIT
Apr 25, 2020
CYNTHIA GILMORE DOUTHIT of Winston-Salem, NC died April 25, 2020 at the age of 75. A 1966 graduate of John A. Gupton College of Mortuary Science in Nashville, TN, she joined her parents at the Gilmore Funeral Home in Winston-Salem. She was the first licensed female funeral director and embalmer in Forsyth County, and one of the first women to...
EDWARD F. "TED" CARNEY
Apr 24, 2020
EDWARD F. "TED" CARNEY of New Bedford, MA died April 24, 2020 at the age of 70. He answered the call of the family business and became partners with his father at Austin-Carney Funeral Home. He studied mortuary science and funeral service at Boston's New England Institute of Anatomy and Embalming, graduating in 1970, and becoming the then-youngest licensed funeral...
PAUL E BOHN
Apr 17, 2020
PAUL E. BOHN of Ambridge, PA died April 17, 2020 at the age of 78. In 1973 he purchased the William Towcimak Funeral Home. He was the sole proprietor of the Paul E. Bohn Funeral Home for 32 years. Bohn turned over his business to his long time associate Bob Matich, whom he mentored for 34 years. A graduate of...