WILLIAM J. "BILL" SCHINDERLE
May 19, 2020
WILLIAM J. "BILL" SCHINDERLE of Algoma, WI died May 19, 2020 at the age of 90. A licensed funeral director for 62 years, he purchased the Schumacher Furniture Store and Funeral Home in Stockbridge in 1953 and the Haucke Funeral Home in Algoma in 1967. A new funeral home was built in 1971, which is where the Schinderle Funeral Home...
ANDREA Y. ROCHE
May 15, 2020
ANDREA Y. ROCHE of Summerfield, FL died May 15, 2020 at the age of 66. A 2013 retired funeral director, she worked alongside her husband, Bob Roche at their Tamaqua, PA funeral home. After moving to Florida, she worked at Forest Lawn Funeral Home in Ocala, FL; Wilder Funeral Home in Homosassa Springs and Turner Funeral Homes in Spring Hill....
MIKE STEPHENS
May 15, 2020
MIKE STEPHENS of Cincinnati, OH died May 15, 2020 at the age of 66. In 1984, Stephens joined The Forethought Group, serving various sales management roles for seven years. In the early 1900s, he joined a start-up funeral home acquisition company. In 2007 he became a regional vice president of National Guardian Life Insurance Company. He retired in 2019 after...
JOHN W CHAPMAN
May 14, 2020
JOHN W. CHAPMAN III of Hurricane, WV died May 14, 2020 at the age of 72. A second generation funeral director, he began helping his father, John W. Chapman Jr., at the Chapman Funeral Home in Winfield before they purchased a second location in Teays Valley. For many years, John and his wife, Debra Leslie Chapman owned and operated the...
ALBERT RHODEN
May 9, 2020
ALBERT RHODEN of Canton, OH died May 9, 2020 at the age of 71. He was owner and president of Rhoden Memorial Homes in Akron and Canton. A 1981 graduate of Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science, he became a partner in the Turner-Rhoden Funeral Home in 1982, and sole owner in 2000. He was a member of the National and...
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...