KEVIN PORTER of Tipton, IN died June 20, 2019 at the age of 62. A second generation funeral director for over 30 years, he was part owner and operator of Porter Funeral Home. He graduated from the Mid-America College of Funeral Service.
ALAN N. KUTZ of Collegeville, PA died June 14, 2019 at the age of 78. He served as a funeral director under the former ownership of Boyd-Horrox Funeral Home in Norristown and then the R. L. Williams, Jr Funeral Home, Inc in Skippack, retiring in 2006. He graduated from the Eckels College of Mortuary Science in 1962.
PAUL SHIELDS of Pekin, IL died June 14, 2019 at the age of 87. A licensed funeral director and embalmer, he worked for the Endsley and Son Funeral Home, T. W Parks Colonial Chapel and Shields Funeral Home & Cremation Service before retiring in 2013. He graduated from the St. Louis College of Mortuary Science.
LEEROY AL HALLEY of Palmdale, CA died June 11, 2019 at the age of 76. A retired funeral director, he worked for several mortuaries in southern California and was the former owner and operator of Halley-Olsen-Murphys Funerals and Cremations. He graduated from mortuary school in 1963.
DAVID DALE "CARMACKIE"CARMICHAEL of Fort Wayne, IN died June 11, 2019 at the age of 53. A licensed funeral director, he was the owner and operator of Carmichael-Gholar Funeral Home in Muncie and the Carmichael Funeral Services, Inc in Fort Wayne, which he opened in 1997. He earned his mortuary science degree from Mid-America Funeral College in 1987 and was...
THOMAS DWIGHT NEWCOMER of Orfordville, WI died June 8, 2019 at the age of 84. A licensed funeral director, he owned and operated Newcomer-Silverthorn Chapel on the Hill for the past 62 years.
SADIE MELISSA OWENS MCHARGUE of Shepherdsville, KY and Dunedin, FL died June 7, 2019 at the age of 93. A licensed funeral director, she worked alongside her late husband, Billy McHargue as manager of the old McDaniel Funeral Home in Louisville, KY.
CRAIG A. REUKAUF of New Smyrna Beach, FL died July 5, 2019 at the age of 72. A licensed funeral director since 1966, he was the owner and operator of Brewer Funeral Home in Lake Luzerne until 1999, when he sold the business. A graduate of the Simmons School of Embalming in Syracuse, he was a member of the New...
EARL "SONNY" AMMONS of Grenada, MS died May 31, 2019 at the age of 74. He was a licensed funeral director at Robinson and Son Funeral Home. His career in the funeral industry spanned more than 40 years.
MARJORIE DAME "MARGE" GNEWIKOW of Sauk City, WI died May 31, 2019at the age of 92. She and her husband, Ortwin E. Gnewikow, purchased Mazomanie Funeral Home in 1952. Funeral homes in Sauk City and Prairie du Sac were later purchased and in 1980 a new facility was built in Mazomanie. Marge later sold the business to her daughter and...