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Page A38 JULY 2020 FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS S ec t i on A LEWIS FARRELL JUDAY of La Porte, IN died May 20, 2020 at the age of 95. A fu- neral director for 50 years, he was the owner and oper- ator of Haverstock Funer- al Home, retiring in 1992. Juday served as head deputy coroner for eight years. GEORGE FRED KOURMADAS of Williamsburg, VA died May 24, 2020 at the age of 90. He owned and operated two funeral homes in the De- troit, MI area, retiring after serving 65 years as a licensed funeral director. He graduat- ed from the Gupton-Jones Col- lege of Funeral Service. HORACE WELCH JR of Way- cross, GA died April 14, 2020 at the age of 71. A licensed fu- neral director, he was the own- er and operator of the Welch & Brinkley Mortuary. RICHARD EMIL DANIELS of Burlington, WI died May 29, 2020 at the age of 92. A Wis- consin funeral director and embalmer, he worked with John Schuette at the Schuette Funeral Home in 1948 be- fore becoming a partner in the Schuette, Werth and Dan- iels Funeral Home in 1954. In 1975, Daniels and his wife, Doris purchased the business and in 1991 a new funeral home was built at its current location on Browns Lake Drive. In 1996, the McCarthy Koenig Funeral Home was purchased and consolidated into the Schuette-Daniels location in 1997. In 1994 the Polnasek Funeral Home in Union Grove was purchased and became Polnasek-Daniels Funeral Home. In 2008, Daniels retired from the funeral homes and Browns Lake Crematory . A 1952 graduate of the Wisconsin Institute of Mortuary Science, he served four terms on the board of di- rectors of the Wisconsin Funeral Directors Association and served as secretary/treasurer for one term each. BRENT M. HARTLEY of Toledo, OH died May 20, 2020 at the age of 55. He began his career as an associate funer- al director and embalmer at the Hartley Funeral Home Inc, which was founded by his parents, Richard and Joann Hartley in 1966. Brent became co-owner of the funeral home after the passing of his father in 1998. He continued to operate it alongside his mother until they retired in 2015. A 1988 graduate of the Cincinnati Col- lege of Mortuary Science, he was a member of the Ohio Funeral Directors Association and the Disaster Mortuary Response Team (DMORT). PAUL E. BOHN of Ambridge, PA died April 17, 2020 at the age of 78. In 1973 he pur- chased the William Towci- mak Funeral Home. He was the sole proprietor of the Paul E. Bohn Funeral Home for 32 years. Bohn turned over his business to his long time associate Bob Matich, whom he mentored for 34 years. A graduate of the Pittsburgh In- stitute of Mortuary Science, he was past treasurer of the Beaver County Funeral Directors Association . JOHN W. CHAPMAN III of Hurricane, WV died May 14, 2020 at the age of 72. A sec- ond generation funeral direc- tor, he began helping his father, John W. Chapman Jr., at the Chapman Funeral Home in Winfield before they purchased a second location in Teays Val- ley. For many years, John and his wife, Debra Leslie Chap- man owned and operated the Bartlett-Chapman Funeral Home in St. Albans. Fol- lowing the death of his father in 1985, John and Deb- ra expanded their funeral home presence with new and modern facilities. In 2015, Affordable Cremations of WV was launched to provide cremation services to all ar- eas of West Virginia in the most economical fashion. A 1969 graduate of the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Sci- ence, he served the West Virginia Board of Funeral Ser- vice Examiners, was a member of the National Funeral Directors Association, West Virginia Funeral Directors As- sociation and the Preferred Funeral Directors International, where he has served as past president. ANDREA Y. ROCHE of Summer- field, FL died May 15, 2020 at the age of 66. A 2013 retired fu- neral director, she worked along- side her husband, Bob Roche at their Tamaqua, PA funeral home. After moving to Florida, she worked at Forest Lawn Fu- neral Home in Ocala, FL; Wild- er Funeral Home in Homosas- sa Springs and Turner Funeral Homes in Spring Hill. Andrea received her degree in mortu- ary science from the Northampton Area Community College. ALBERT RHODEN of Can- ton, OH died May 9, 2020 at the age of 71. He was own- er and president of Rhoden Memorial Homes in Akron and Canton. A 1981 graduate of Cincinnati College of Mortu- ary Science , he became a part- ner in the Turner-Rhoden Funeral Home in 1982, and sole owner in 2000. He was a member of the National and Ohio Funeral Directors As- sociations , Buckeye State Funeral Directors , Phi Sigma Eta Fraternity and The Funeral Directors and Embalmer Asso- ciations of Summit and Stark Counties . John “Jack” Kenneth Eickhof passed away on February 20, 2020 in St. Paul, MN at the age of 96. Jack was a general contractor and a partner in Otto J. Eick- hof and Sons Construction Com- pany for most of his career. He lost a daughter’s named Gretch- en in a private airplane accident while she was attending Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. This tragedy provided an impetus for Jack to design a columbarium in her honor. He believed his daughters cremated remains should be protected and stored in a safe dignified memorial. At the time in the early eighties there were few columbaria and none in his hometown of Crookston, MN. Jack convinced his church to build one. During the design of the columbarium Jack came to re- alize the shortcomings of existing exposed fasteners for the marble niche fronts. He had a better idea – a unique concealed hardware system. Jacks’ son Paul suggested marketing the hardware system to the interment indus- try. For the next seven years, Jack and Paul worked closely with cemetery customers to refine the hardware. While marketing this unique hardware system to the industry, Paul discovered that customers were also look- ing for a better way to build columbarium niches. Instead of costly, labor intensive, poured concrete construction techniques, Jack developed a simple, modular columbar- ium niche system using lightweight, 3/8” thick cement fiber building board. After years of improvement, the re- sult is a complete system that is structurally sound and secure with virtually limitless design potential. Today, the Eickhof Columbarium niche system is at the heart of beautiful, custom designed memorials throughout cem- eteries and churches in North America, South America, Australia, and Puerto Rico. DAVIDALLEN BECK of Colum- bus, OH died May 29, 2020 at the age of 81. He began his ca- reer in the funeral industry at The Clark Grave Vault Com- pany, having served as produc- tion foreman, sales manager and president in 1988. Beck served thirty years on the board of the International Memori- alization Supply Association, was president and a member of the Casket and Funeral Supply Association of America, which presented him with the 2009 Lifetime Recogni- tion Award. Beck also won the Entrepreneur of the Year in the state of Ohio for manufacturing in 1994. EDWARD “EDDIE” D. BROWN II of Hopkinsville, KY died June 7, 2020 at the age of 54. A funeral director and embalmer, he had worked under Edward W. Babbage at Babbage Fu- neral Home for 20 years. The funeral home went through several owners after Babbage died in 1997 and was renamed Redd and Brown Funeral Home in 2017, which Brown co-owned. He was also a partner at Franklin Funeral Directors. A graduate of the Mid-America College of Funeral Service, he was a member of the Kentucky Association of Morticians. Death Notices a a JOEL ROBERT VANDEMORE of Geneseo, formerly of Atkinson, IL died May 31, 2020 at the age of 52. A second generation funeral director, he owned and operated Vandemore Funeral Homes & Crematory along- side his wife, Janel. He was a graduate of the Worsham Col- lege of Mortuary Science. BERTRAND E. BRYANT of Ber- lin, NH died June 3, 2020 at the age of 89. A funeral direc- tor and embalmer for 60 years, he owned and operated Bry- ant Funeral Home in Cole- brook for several years prior to moving to Berlin in 1966 when he purchased the Parker & Holmes Funeral Home. He later opened a chapel in Gorham, operating both loca- tions as Bryant Funeral Homes until his retirement. A graduate of the New England Institute of Anatomy, San- itary Science and Embalming, he was a member of the New Hampshire Board of Registration of Funeral Direc- tors and Embalmers, Maine Funeral Directors Association, National Funeral Directors Association and was past presi- dent of the New Hampshire Funeral Directors Association. C O N T I N U E D F R OM P R E V I O U S PA G E Featuring News Funeral Home & Cemetery online If you have an obituary you would like to see listed here, please send information to: PO Box 5159, Youngstown, OH 44514 • Fax 1-800-321-9040 • info@nomispublications.com