December 2021

Page A42 DECEMBER 2021 FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS Se c t i on A Death Notices Send obituary information to Funeral Home & Cemetery News, PO Box 5159, Youngstown, OH 44514 • fax 800-321-9040 • email info@NomisPublications.com SHIRLEY ANN MOORE ALTHOFF of Centerville, OH died October 24, 2021 at the age of 85. A licensed funeral director, she was vice president and co-owner of Schlientz and Moore Funeral Homes. Althoff was the first female president of the Greater Montgomery County Funeral Directors Association and was a mem- ber of the National Funeral Directors Association and the Ohio Funeral Directors Association. JOHN BAMBER of Mason, OH died October 14, 2021 at the age of 81. A retired funeral director at Tufts Schildmeyer Family Funeral Homes, he was the former owner and operator of Bamber Funeral Home in East Walnut Hills. Bamber was a member of the Ohio Funeral Directors Association. BRIAN REESE GILLESPIE of Bellefontaine, OH died October 31, 2021 at the age of 65. He was a long- time sales representative for Batesville Casket Com- pany, covering as a sales trainee in the states of North Dakota, eastern Montana and western Minnesota. In 1980, Gillespie accepted a sales territory in central Pennsylvania. Following an additional seven years of service with Batesville, he completed his career as an advanced planning coordinator with Eichholtz Dar- ing & Sanford Funeral Homes in Bellefontaine. VAUGHN E. PAINE of Or- well, OH died October 15, 2021 at the age of 77. He was the former owner of Paine Funeral Homes in Orwell and Rock Creek. ROBERT L. “BOB” PARKS of Enfield, CT died Novem- ber 1, 2021 at the age of 90. He owned and operated Parks Superior Sales Inc in Somers from 1952 until 2010. KAYE PATTERSON of Fort Worth, TX died September 29, 2021 at the age of 67. A licensed funeral director, she and her husband, David founded Global Mortuary Affairs in Mesquite in 2006. She owned and operated it until her retirement. SHERRYL.(CAPELLO)RONAN of Carlisle, PA died October 23, 2021 at the age of 54. She assisted her husband, Lynn A. Ronan in operating the Ronan Funeral Home. J. ROBERT “ROB” VARNER of Sligo, PA died October 27, 2021 at the age of 58. A funeral director, he was the owner and operator of Varner Funeral Home in Sligo and Rimersburg for the last thirty- three years. Varner graduated from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science in 1986. funeral director for forty-six years, he worked at Zieren Funeral Home before own- ing and operating Carroll Fu- neral Home . Carroll was also a licensed insurance agent for Forethought and Global At- lantic insurance companies. He was a member of the Illi- nois Funeral Directors Associa- tion and the National Funeral Directors Association. THOMAS DAVID CARROLL of Paris, IL died Oc- tober 12, 2021 at the age of 68. A third-generation A Dialogue Between Parent and Child. He was one of the founders the Good Grief pro- gram. Grollman had written 27 books on all aspects of loss and grief, such as Alzheimer’s disease, divorce, and death. One of his proudest moments was when he spoke at the World Gathering of Bereave- ment in Vancouver in 2006. RABBI EARL A. GROLLMAN of Belmont, MA died October 15, 2021 at the age of 96. A pioneer in the field of death and dying, he wrote one of the first books for children about death, Talking about Death: operator of Lesicko Funer- al Home, which he purchased alongside his wife, Clara in 1961. They were also pioneers in EMT service receiving their training while operating Le- sicko Ambulance Service from 1961 to 1976. A 1953 graduate of the College of Mortuary Sci- ence in St. Louis, he served as past deputy coroner for Madi- son County, was a member of GEORGE LESICKO of New Douglas, IL died Octo- ber 18, 2021 at the age of 91. A licensed funeral direc- tor and embalmer for fifty years, he was the owner and the National Funeral Directors Association, Illinois Funer- al Directors Association, and was past president of the Madison County Funeral Directors Association . tablished by his father, Clifford Smith in 1955. For the next for- ty-five years, Smith and his wife Kay, worked to build the funer- al home to be one of the larg- est and most respected funer- al homes in the state. Together, John and Kay were elected Ar- kansas Funeral Director of the Year. In 2010, he retired and sold the funeral home to his son and daughter-in-law, Jeff and Leslie Smith. A graduate of the Dallas JOHN STEPHEN SMITH of North Little Rock, AR died October 28, 2021 at the age of 78. He was president of the North Little Rock Funeral Home, which was es- Institute of Mortuary Science, he was president of the Ar- kansas Funeral Directors Association , was inducted into the Arkansas Funeral Directors Hall of Fame in 2018, and was a member of the Preferred Funeral Director’s International. H. Tuthill Funeral Home in Riverhead and the DeFreist Funeral Home in Southold. Reed was a long-time sales associate in the casket indus- try, having worked for the National Casket Company, Batesville Casket Company, Northeast Casket Compa- ny, South Brooklyn Casket Company and J & R Victo- riaville Casket Company. A graduate of the Simmons Insti- JAMES A. REED of Riverhead, formerly of Manor- ville, NY died October 27, 2021 at the age of 79. A New York State funeral director, he worked for the S. B. Horton Funeral Home in Greenport, Reginald tute of Funeral Service, he was a member of the Na- tional Funeral Directors Association, New York State Funeral Directors Association and the Nassau-Suffolk Funeral Directors Association, where he chaired the continuing education committee. ford Funeral Home in Hali- fax before establishing Mill- er Funeral Home in Gretna in 1964. A 1962 graduate of the Echols College of Mortuary Science, he was a member of the National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association, president and board chairman of the Virginia Morticians As- sociation and was president of the Western District Funeral JACK MILLER of Gretna, VA died October 27, 2021 at the age of 89. He completed his funeral di- rector and embalmers apprenticeship at Community Funeral Home in Lynchburg, VA under the super- vision of the late M. W. Thornhill, Jr. Miller later served as a funeral director and embalmer at Craw- Directors Morticians Association. Miller’s service to the community led to numerous accolades that includ- ed 1976 Western District Funeral Directors and Mor- ticians “Man of the Year,” 1999 Virginia Morticians Association “Mortician of the Year,” and in 2000, he was appointed to a four-term to the Virginia Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers, where he later served as board president. email info@nomispublications.com mail PO Box 5159 Youngstown, OH 44514 fax 1-800-321-9040 If you have an obituary you would like to see listed here send information to: f e a t u r i n g