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Page A42 FEBRUARY 2017 FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS S ec t i on A Death Notices
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REV. VANDROTH BACKUS of
Florence, SC died December
26, 2016 at the age of 91. He
was a licensed funeral direc-
tor and founder of Backus
Funeral Home.
ALBERT “AL” E. BRIEDE III
of New Orleans, LA died De-
cember 23, 2016 at the age of
94. He was a licensed funer-
al director and owner of the
McMahon-Coburn-Brie-
de Funeral Home for more
than six decades. He was a
member of the New Orleans
Funeral Directors Association
and the Louisiana Funeral
Directors Association.
LYLE CLINKINGBEARD of Ava, MO died December
15, 2016 at the age of 87. He was a licensed funeral
director, embalmer and co-owner of Clinkingbeard
Funeral Homes, Inc, both in Ava and Gainesville,
MO. He also worked alongside his wife, Florence for
56 years in operating the only ambulance company in
Ava and Douglas County for over 25 years. A gradu-
ate of St. Louis Mortuary College, he was a member
of the National Funeral Directors Association and the
Missouri Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association
where he received a 60 year member certificate.
HENRY “TRAIL” HUNTER JORDAN JR, 73, and his wife, ANN
FIRESTONE JORDAN, 71, of Kosciusko, MS died December 19,
2016 during an early morning house fire. Trail and Ann were own-
ers of Jordan Funeral Home, which was established by his grandfa-
ther, L. W. Jordan, Sr. in 1904 and is now in its fourth generation
of continuous service to Central Mississippi.
Trail graduated from the John A. Gupton College of Mortuary Science in
1964 and was appointed secretary/treasurer of the Mississippi Board of
Funeral Service in 1976 , where he served for sixteen years. He was past
president of the Mississippi Funeral Directors Association, 1990 president
of the Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards, and was a member
of the American Board of Funeral Service Education, Selected Independent
Funeral Homes and the International order of the Golden Rule.
WAYNE H. JUSTICE of Hen-
dersonville, TN died January
7, 2017 at the age of 78. He
joined Ambulance & Coach
Sales of Nashville in 1986, and
later became part-owner for 25
years, supplying hearses and
limousines to the funeral in-
dustry throughout the South-
east. He was a member of the
Tennessee and Mississippi Funer-
al Supply Sales Clubs.
THEODORE WILLIAM KUHNS
of Las Animas, CO died Decem-
ber 12, 2016 at the age of 87. He
worked as a licensed funeral di-
rector in Titusville, PA and Clin-
tonville, PA before moving to
Las Animas in 1974 to work for
Powell Funeral Home. He later
purchased the firm and renamed
it Powell-Kuhns Mortuary. He
graduated from the Pittsburgh
Institute of Mortuary Science.
H. BARTH LITTLETON of Sa-
bina, OH died December 22,
2016 at the age of 86. He was
a licensed funeral director at
Littleton Funeral Home for
over 60 years. He graduated
from the Cincinnati College
of Mortuary Science and was a
member of the Ohio Funeral
Directors Association.
DANIEL “DAN”WEBSTER MC-
BRIDE of Paragould, AR for-
merly of Rector, AR died De-
cember 21, 2016 at the age of
93. He was a funeral director,
embalmer and owner of Irby
Funeral Home for 35 years. He
served on the board of directors
and was past president for both
the Arkansas Embalmers and Fu-
neral Directors and the Arkansas
State Burial Association.
LARRY E. MINOTT of Janes-
ville, WI died December 20,
2016 at the age of 58. He
worked as a funeral attendant
at the Whitcomb-Lynch Fu-
neral Home and Cremation
Services and the Albrecht
Funeral Home and Crema-
tion Services.
PETER IGNATIUS MORRISON
of Boardman, OH died Decem-
ber 10, 2016 at the age of 56. He
was a funeral director and pre-ar-
rangement consultant at Edward
J. Fox & Sons Inc after receiving
his licenses by the Ohio Board of
Embalmers and Funeral Directors
in 2006. He was a member of
the Tri-County Funeral Directors
Association and the Ohio Funeral
Directors Association.
FRANK M. PROUT of
Hutchinson Island, FL died
December 28, 2016 at the age
of 92. A licensed funeral di-
rector since 1948, he was also
a certified public accountant.
He operated an accounting
service while also working at
Prout Funeral Home, a firm
founded by his father, Mi-
chael C. Prout in 1924 and
is presently owned and oper-
ated by his son, Bob and daughter-in-law, Meg. He
graduated from the McAllister School of Embalming in
1947 and Seton Hall University in 1959 with a Bach-
elor’s in Accounting. He was a member of the New
Jersey State Funeral Directors Association and the Essex,
Union &West Hudson Funeral Directors Association.
JAMES E. “JIM” SMITH of
Wilmington, OH died De-
cember 16, 2016 at the age
of 72. He began his long ca-
reer in the funeral industry
working with his father, the
late L. Eugene Smith at the
L. Eugene Smith & Son Fu-
neral Home in New Vien-
na. Together they purchased
the Reynolds-Smith Fu-
neral Home in Wilmington
in 1973. He later owned and operated both funer-
al homes with his son, Shane C. Smith as well as
a private ambulance service that was associated with
the funeral homes. He graduated from the Cincin-
nati College of Mortuary Science in 1968 and was a
member the National Funeral Directors Association
and served as past director at large and past president
of the Ohio Funeral Directors Association, District 11.
DONALD E. KOPPELMAN
of Pekin, IL died December
18, 2016 at the age of 83. He
started his funeral directing
career as an apprentice with
Hurley Funeral Home in Pe-
tersburg and remained with
the firm as a licensed funeral
director and embalmer until
moving to Pekin in 1961, at
which time he began work-
ing for William Weimer
at the Noel Funeral Home. He continued working
for Merl Henderson at Noel-Henderson Funeral
Home until retiring in 1996 after 35 years of dedi-
cated service to the Pekin community. He graduated
from Worsham College of Mortuary Science in 1956.
REVEREND DONALD H. JOR-
DAN SR of Middletown, OH
died January 2, 2017 at the
age of 83. He was the found-
er and owner of Thomp-
son, Hall & Jordan Funeral
Homes of Cincinnati, OH;
Green, Hall & Jordan Me-
morial Chapel of Hamilton,
OH; and the Hall Jordan &
Petty Memorial Chapel of
Middletown, OH. He found-
ed his first funeral home in
Middletown in 1953 and grew the organization into
one of the largest African American owned funeral es-
tablishments in the nation with locations in Ohio,
Kentucky and Indiana. He also served as a pastor
for over 20 years at the Quinn Chapel AME Church
and Allen Temple AME Church, building three new
church facilities during his tenure. He was a member
of the United Funeral Directors of Greater Cincinna-
ti, Buckeye State Funeral Directors Association and the
National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association.
JOHN JACOBSON of Slayton,
MN died December 13, 2016
at the age of 78. He worked
as a licensed funeral director
at Johnson Funeral Home
in Newton, IA and later at
Schroeder Funeral Home in
Boone, IA. In 1976, he and
his wife, Elizabeth “Liz”
Latham purchased the But-
son Funeral Homes in Tracy
and Walnut Grove, MN. He
continued to operate it until 2002 when he retired
and sold the business. He graduated from the Cali-
fornia College of Mortuary Science.
DELBERT DUANE BOWERS
of Harker Heights, TX died
December 26, 2016 at the
age of 87. A licensed funer-
al director, he and his busi-
ness partner, William “Bill”
Crawford established the
Crawford-Bowers Funeral
Home in Killeen in 1972 and
Crawford-Bowers Funeral
Home in Copperas Cove in
1988. They sold the business
to Service Corporation International in 1989, al-
though he remained active as a consultant until the
time of his passing.
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