June 2019

Page A46 JUNE 2019 FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS S ec t i on A ELIZABETH C. FERRARA of Cleveland, OH died May 7, 2019 at the age of 88. She spent a lifetime of comfort- ing and consoling others with her late husband, Dan at their business, the Ferrara Funeral Home in Garfield Heights. PAUL EDWARD FREDETTE of Pemaquid Harbor, ME died April 23, 2019 at the age of 67. He was a funeral director for over 30 years in Water- ville, retiring to Pemaquid. RICHARD EUGENE “DICK” PETERSON of Monona, WI died April 29, 2019 at the age of 86. A licensed funeral director since 1963, he worked at Gunderson Funeral Home for 22 years, retir- ing in 1998. He continued to serve families on a part time basis until 2016. A 1962 graduate of the Wis- consin Institute of Mortuary Science, he was a member of the Wisconsin Funeral Directors Association. RONALD EDWARD POOLE of Bahama, NC died May 3, 2019 at the age of 66. A li- censed funeral director for over 38 years, he worked at Brooks & White Funeral Home until retiring in 2014. He continued to work part time for the firm until his health no longer allowed him. RICHARD G. PROUT of Lenox, MA died May 5, 2019 at the age of 92. A licensed funeral director, he was the owner and operator of Douglass Funeral Service in Amherst for many years until his retirement in 1995. FRANCES M. ROGERS of Tonawanda, NY died May 7, 2019 at the age of 101. She became president of the Les- ter H. Wedekindt Funeral Home in Tonawanda after her husband’s death in 1960 and presided with her son, H. Lester, until she retired in 2014. SPENCER F. WILKERSON of Lancaster, PA died April 25, 2019 at the age of 96. A li- censed funeral director, he served with the Hooper Me- morial Funeral Home in Harrisburg, PA for seven years. In 1957, he found- ed the Spencer F. Wilker- son Funeral Home in Lan- caster. He continued to own and operate the business un- til selling it in 1988. A graduate of the Eckels College of Mortuary Science, he was a member of the Lancaster County Funeral Directors Association. BOBBY MAURICE SULLIVAN of Fayetteville, NC died April 13, 2019 at the age of 82. A licensed funeral director in Fayetteville for over 45 years, he served as managing part- ner for the Jernigan-Warren Funeral Home prior to pur- chasing the Highland Funer- al Service and Crematory in 2005 alongside his son, Todd Sullivan, and began operating the business as Sulli- van’s Highland Funeral Service and Crematory. MATTHEW JOHN RUSSO II of Virginia Beach, VA died March 16, 2019. He and Issac Wil- liams founded Custom Air Trays in 1992. He sold the business in 2000 and contin- ued to work with local funer- al homes and casket companies on the East Coast. His knowl- edge and connections were instrumental when his son’s mother, Lori Russo Eanes, and her brother Christopher Williams, founded C & L Containers, Inc in 2001. Matt’s son, Matthew Russo is currently owner and vice president of operations. MARY DILORETO ROSSI of Warren, OH died April 17, 2019 at the age of 79. A li- censed funeral director since 1973, she was the co-own- er and secretary of the Peter Rossi & Son Memorial Cha- pel with her husband Peter P. Rossi Jr, from 1964 until the present. She was a member of the Ohio Funeral Directors As- sociation, Tri-County Funeral Directors Association and the National Funeral Directors Association. CLAUDE A MCKIBBEN JR of Hogansville, GA died March 30, 2019 at the age of 70. A licensed funeral director and embalmer for 48 years, he owned and operated the McK- ibben Funeral Home along- side his late father, brother and nephews. A 1971 graduate of the Dallas Institute of Gupton- Jones College of Mortuary Sci- ence, he was a member of the Georgia Funeral Directors Association, National Funeral Directors Association and was past president of the Acad- emy of Graduate Embalmers of Georgia. JACQUELYN LOUISE HAIZLIP of High Point, NC died May 3, 2019 at the age of 85. She joined her sister, Lois Powell, as a licensed funeral director in the family business, Haizlip Funeral Home, which was es- tablished by their father in 1924. She continuously served High Point and the surround- ing communities until 2003, when the business sold. She earned her funeral directing certificate from Forsyth Tech- nical Community College in Winston Salem, NC. FRED CLARK of Neosho, MO died March 30, 2019 at the age of 82. A licensed funer- al director, he began work- ing alongside his parents at the family-owned busi- ness, Clark Funeral Home. Upon the death of his father in 1965, he assumed a bigger role in running the firm with his mother, and later his wife Sue, two sons and grandson. He was a 1957 graduate of the Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science. FREDERICK “FRED”DONATELLI, JR of Ross Township, PA died May 6, 2019 at the age of 87. In 1965, he founded the Fred Donatelli Cemetery Memori- als in the North Hills of Pitts- burgh, followed in later years by Pittsburgh Cremation Service and OakCrest Pet Crematory. Fred was involved for decades with the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, most recently serving as chairman of the board of directors. He was a member of the Allegheny County Funeral Directors Asso- ciation, Cremation Association of North America, Interna- tional Association of Pet Cemeteries and Crematories, and the Monument Builders of North America. ANDREW MAMARY SR of Wilkes Barre, PA died April 15, 2019 at the age of 90. A licensed funeral director since 1951, he was the owner and operator of Mamary-Durkin Funeral Service, Inc., which he operated alongside his part- ner Gerald A. Durkin, from 1972 until Durkin’s passing in 1984. Mamary was appointed to the Pennsylvania State Board of Funeral Directors in 1998 and was elected chairman in 2003. A graduate of the Eckels College of Mortuary Science in Philadelphia, he was a member of the Luzerne County Funeral Directors Association, Pennsylvania Funeral Direc- tors Association and served as county deputy coroner. RUSSELL MUFFLEY of Clo- vis, NM died April 2, 2019 at the age of 71. He served as a licensed funeral director in Las Cruces, Artesia and Clayton, NM before moving to Clovis to become manager of Sherwood Mortuary in 1975. In 1978, he and his wife, Carolyn pur- chased what is now the Muff- ley Funeral Home, and con- tinued to own and operate it for over 40 years. A 1968 graduate of the Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science, he was appointed to the State Board of Thanatopractice, serving as chairman until 1972. WARREN ADDISON RAND of Centerville, formerly of Westborough, MA died April 12, 2019 at the age of 82. A licensed funeral director for almost forty years, he be- gan his career in south shore at Folsom’s, Wickens and Troupe and later the Spar- rell’s Funeral Homes . He purchased the Harper Fu- neral Home in 1973, renam- ing it Rand and Harper Funeral Home. A graduate of the New England Institute of Anatomy, Sanitary Sci- ence and Embalming, he was a member of the Greater Worcester Funeral Directors Association. GEORGE R. “DICK” DEVORE JR of Sunbury, OH died May 5, 2019 at the age of 89. A sec- ond generation funeral direc- tor and embalmer for 62 years, he joined his parents at the De- Vore Funeral Home in Galena. In 1960 he opened a second lo- cation in Sunbury and expanded again in 1967 with the opening of the Marengo Chapel. In 1978 Dick and his wife Phyllis built a new funeral home chapel in Sunbury. In 1985, he purchased the former Pletcher Funeral Home in Delaware, which he operated along with his wife, son Garee; a third generation funeral director, and daughter Beth, until partnering with the Snyder family of funeral homes in 1993. A 1956 gradu- ate of the Cincinnati College or Mortuary Science, he was a member of the The Order of the Golden Rule, National Fu- neral Directors Association, Ohio Funeral Director Association and the Central Ohio Funeral Directors Association. Send obituary information to: PO Box 5159, Youngstown, OH 44514 • Fax 1-800-321-9040 • info@nomispublications.com Updated Daily at www.nomispublications.com Death Notices a a