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FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS

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PATRICK FARRELL

of Rochester

Hills, MI died May 13, 2017 at the

age of 79. He served a 41-year ca-

reer with the

Mt. Elliott Cemetery

Association,

where he excelled to

the position of CEO and gener-

al manager until his retirement in

2004.

STANLEY H. FRYCZYNSKI JR

of Bayonne, NJ died June 4,

2017 at the age of 90. He was

a licensed funeral director,

owner and operator of the

Fryczynski & Son Funer-

al Home

for over 40 years,

which was established by his

father in 1917. He graduated

from the

American Academy

McAllister Institute of Funer-

al Service

FRANCES E. MESSMER

McCOMBS

of Connersville,

IN died May 13, 2017 at the

age of 89. She worked along-

side her husband,

Paul W.

McCombs

for several years

as a secretary, who along with

Gene

and

Jeannie Krepp

owned and operated

Mac

Machine & Metal Works

STEPHEN N. STEINBERG

of Manhasset, NY died

April 26, 2017 at the age of 74. He worked alongside

his brother,

Franklin O. L. Steinberg

as the owner

and operator of

Sunset Chapels, Inc

for 52 years. He

graduated from the

American Academy McAllister In-

stitute of Funeral Service

in 1957.

EDWARD J. WAITT

of Brock-

ton, MA died May 29, 2017

at the age of 98. He was Mas-

sachusetts’ oldest active li-

censed funeral director for al-

most 70 years, during which

time, he established

Waitt

Funeral Home

with his wife,

Kay

in 1928. He graduated

from the

New England Insti-

tute of Applied Arts and Sci-

ences

in 1947.

KATHREN LOIS RITCHEY

WILLIAMS

of Redmond,

OR died May 16, 2017 at

the age of 77. She worked

alongside her husband,

Wal-

ly Williams

as a licensed fu-

neral director. Together, they

purchased the

Driskill Me-

morial Chapel

in John Day,

OR after the death of

Carl

Driskill.

In 1980, she moved

to Bend, OR, where she start-

ed working for

Paul Reyn-

olds

Niswonger Reynold Funeral Home

and in

1986 she moved to Bend, OR to manage

Redmond

Memorial Chapel

. She was a member of the

Oregon

Funeral Directors Association.

JOHN DANIEL CARON

North Andover, MA died

June 1, 2017 at the age of

77. He was a licensed funer-

al director and embalmer in

North Andover and Haver-

hill, having worked alongside

his father at the

R. George

Caron Funeral Home

and

later the

N. Power O’Connor

Funeral Home.

He then be-

came the owner and operator

of the

Caron Funeral Home

in North Andover. He received a diploma in Sanitary

Science, Embalming and Funeral Directing from the

New England Institute of Anatomy

in 1960.

DORIS E. BAKER

of Zanes-

ville, OH died May 15, 2017

at the age of 98. She joined

the staff of the

Bateman Me-

morial Home

where her fa-

ther, the late

William De-

Long,

was manager and

part owner. A graduate of

the

Cleveland College of Em-

balming,

she passed the Ohio

State Board of Embalmers

and Funeral Directors ex-

ams, receiving both licenses

in 1939, making her the only women in the area to

hold both licenses. In 1990, Baker was recognized by

the Ohio Board of Embalmers and Funeral Director

for her fifty years as a licensed person.

B.D. “BUD” HUNTER

Springfield, IL died May 14,

2017 at the age of 87. He

worked for the

S. P. Wright

Advertising Co.

that pro-

vided advertising and con-

sulting services to the funer-

al industry. He purchased

the company and expanded

the scope of the business on

an international scale. In the

late 1960’s, Hunter found-

Amedco, Inc,

which lat-

er became the second largest manufacturer of buri-

al caskets in the world. In 1986, Amedco merged

with

Service Corporation International.

As part

of the merger, Hunter, through one of his compa-

nies,

Huntco, Inc,

purchased the steel processing and

healthcare equipment operations of Amedco. Hunter

served as vice chairman on the board of directors of

SCI (NYSE) and graduated from Truman State Uni-

versity in 1950.

ROBERT G. SHORT

of Arch-

bold, OH died May 15, 2017

at the age of 90. In 1949, he

joined his father, the late

Jo-

seph L. Short,

in the fam-

ily business,

Short Funeral

Home,

as a licensed funeral di-

rector and embalmer. He re-

mained active in the funeral

home for more than 65 years,

making him one of the lon-

gest serving funeral directors in

Ohio. A graduate of the

Cincinnati College of Mortuary

Science,

he was a member of the

National Funeral Direc-

tors Association

and the

Ohio Funeral Directors Association.

JOHN “JACK” K. WATKINS

of Sylvania, OH died May

19, 2017 at the age of 87. He

worked at the

Reeb Funeral

Home

as an embalmer, fu-

neral director and ambulance

driver where he had been em-

ployed since he was twelve

years old doing yard work

and other errands. He retired

as partner in 2012 and con-

tinued to help at the funeral

home. He graduated from the

Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science

in 1959 and was

a member of the

Ohio Funeral Directors Association.

NORMAN DUGGAN HOL-

MAN SR

of Headland, AL

died April 30, 2017 at the

age of 73. He served as Henry

County Coroner for twenty-

four years and was president

of the

Headland & Abbev-

ille Mortuaries, Inc

before

retiring in 2016 as a licensed

funeral director and embalm-

er in Alabama and Florida. A

1965 graduate of the

Cincin-

nati College of Mortuary Sci-

ence

, he was a member of the

Academy of Graduate

Embalmers of Georgia

where he received the Presi-

dent’s Award in 2001, the Service Award in 2015 and

in 2011, he received a fifty year membership pin from

the

Alabama Funeral Directors Association

BILL DeBERRY SR

of Den-

ton, TX died May 13, 2017

at the age of 84. He served the

funeral industry for over 64

years as a licensed funeral di-

rector. He began working for

the

J. Levy Funeral Home

in Galveston before moving

to Denton to work for

J. B.

Floyd

at the

Schmitz-Floyd-

Hamlett Funeral Home

and

later

for

Bob Schmitz

Jack Schmitz and Son Fu-

neral Home.

At the time Schmitz retired, he went

back to work for Floyd until 1988 when he choose to

open

DeBerry Funeral Home

in 1990. He graduated

from the

Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science.

DENNIS W. BOOM

of Dal-

las, TX died May 20, 2017

at the age of 77. He was a

long-time owner of what

is now known as the

Hol-

comb-Henry-Boom-Purcell

Funeral Homes and Cre-

mation Services.

He pur-

chased the funeral home in

St. Paul, MN in 1981 from

Earl

and

Roswitha Hol-

comb

and in 1993, he and

his wife,

Elaine,

expanded

the business to include a second location in Shorev-

iew, MN. The booms lived above the Midway funeral

home and later, above the Shoreview funeral home.

He stayed active with the funeral homes after selling

the business to

Richard Purcell.

In 1962, he gradu-

ated from the

University of Minnesota

with a degree in

mortuary science.

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