In Memoriam
The OFDA staff extends its deepest sympathy and condolences to those who have lost a loved one, family member, or friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with each of you.
Online OFDA memoriams are limited to those within the membership and their immediate family members. They will remain online for two years from posting date.
Please email Andrew Allman death notices and include complete information, along with a contact name and telephone number. If a death notice has been published online, please include the link.
If you are notifying us of the death of an immediate family member, please state his/her relationship to the funeral director and affiliation to the funeral home.
Death notices will be considered for publication on the OFDA website, The Digital Director e-newsletter and membership email notification.
12/19/2024
OFDA Member and Retired Funeral Director & Embalmer
12/09/2024
Mother of Louis D. Ripepi, Jr., Owner of Ripepi Funeral Home
12/02/2024
Retired Funeral Director and Owner of Colligan Funeral Home
11/20/2024
Brother of Robert Solich, Funeral Director at Busch Funeral & Crematory Services
11/18/2024
Retired Funeral Director and Wife of Robert C. Barnes, Mother and Mother-in-Law of Brian R. and Erin M. Barnes, and Sister-in-Law of Bruce L. Barnes, all of Barnes Funeral Homes
11/13/2024
Retired Funeral Director and Owner and Father of Mark Westbrock of Westbrock Funeral Home
11/11/2024
OFDA and NFDA Past President, Retired Funeral Director and Past Owner of Witzler-Shank Funeral Homes; Father of Robert L. Shank, Jr.
11/08/2024
Mother of Thomas P. Corrigan, Corrigan Craciun Funeral Home
11/07/2024
Father of Richard P. Dakters, Funeral Director/Embalmber with Behm Family Funeral Homes
11/02/2024
Mother of Charles L. Wilson, OFDA President-Elect and Owner of Schlup-Pucak & Wilson Funeral Home
10/30/2024
Funeral Director, Wilson Funeral Home, Mannasmith Chapel
10/09/2024
Retired Owner of C. Brown Funeral Home
10/07/2024
Retired Funeral Director/Owner, Mother of Ted S. Lawver, President, and Grandmother of Sarah M. Lawver-Dishong, Vice President, all of Hopkins Lawver Funeral Home
09/23/2024
Son of Josh Turnbull, Grandson of Tom Turnbull, and nephew of Caleb Turnbull, all of Oberlin-Turnbull Funeral Home
09/16/2024
Retired Co-Owner and Wife of Ronald M. Spaulding and Mother of Mark A. Spaulding, all of Wilson-Schramm-Spaulding Funeral Home
09/10/2024
Retired Owner and Father of Laura E. Ingram, both of Ingram & Snyder Funeral Home (formerly Ingram Funeral Home)
09/07/2024
Inspector for the Ohio Board of Embalmers & Funeral Directors
09/03/2024
Funeral Director and Son of Stuart M. Berkowitz, both of Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz Memorial Chapel
08/21/2024
Retired Funeral Director and Embalmer of Ewing Hughes & White Funeral Homes
08/15/2024
Mother of Keith Redmon, Owner of Redmon Funeral Home
08/02/2024
Mother of Keith W. May, Funeral Director at Gilberg-Hartwig Funeral Home
07/29/2024
Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer
07/24/2024
Father of Scott J. Allison, Funeral Director and Owner of Hanson-Neely-Allison Funeral & Cremation Services
07/15/2024
Father of Tommy "TR" Routsong, CFSP, Grandfather of Samuel and Maxwell Routsong, all of Routsong Funeral Home
07/08/2024
Mother of Andrew Waite, Co-Owner of Waite & Son Funeral Homes
07/05/2024
Owner of Sanner Funeral Home
07/01/2024
Funeral Director and Son of Owner, Jean A. Moore, and Brother of Funeral Director Jared A. Moore, all of McCoy-Moore Funeral Homes
06/28/2024
Father of Randy Schoedinger, Brother of OFDA Past President David Schoedinger, & Uncle of Michael Schoedinger, Immed. Past President & Kevin Schoedinger, all of Schoedinger Funeral & Cremation Service
05/31/2024
Mother and Mother-in-Law of OFDA Members, Jim and Lisa Recker
05/22/2024
Funeral Service Associate at Chiles-Laman Funeral Home
05/20/2024
Mother of OFDA Past President, Keith A. Walker, CFSP, Owner of Walker Funeral Homes
05/17/2024
Funeral Director and Manager of Geo. H. Rohde & Son Funeral Home
04/30/2024
Grandmother of Dana Ivins, Care Center Manager and Funeral Director at Busch Funeral Homes
04/29/2024
Father-in-Law of Charles Wilson, OFDA President-Elect and Owner of Schlup-Pucak & Wilson Funeral Home
04/12/2024
OFDA Past President, Husband of Judy Higgins-Reardon, Father of Terrance B. Reardon, all of Higgins-Reardon Funeral Home, Inc.
04/01/2024
Sister of Bob Mihovk of Mihovk-Rosenacker Funeral Home
03/06/2024
Mother of Leichia Davis, Funeral Director and Co-Owner of Roger W. Davis Funeral Home
03/05/2024
Retired Operator and Owner of Gillman Funeral Home
03/04/2024
Retired Funeral Director, Brother of Charles K. St. John, all of St. John Funeral Home
02/21/2024
Retired Funeral Director from Yurch Funeral Home
02/20/2024
Mother of Larry Schaffer, Grandmother of Rachael Schaffer, of Eggleston-Meinert-Pavely Funeral Home; Mother of Dan Schaffer, Grandmother of Hanna Schaffer, of Schaffer Funeral Home
02/14/2024
Daughter of Thomas E. and Barbara A. Caliman and Sister of J. Richard Caliman, all Owners of Caliman Funeral Service
02/13/2024
Funeral Director and Embalmer at Snyder Funeral Homes
02/09/2024
Father of Sara Wise, Funeral Director and Embalmer at Latek & Rybicki Funeral Home
01/31/2024
Father of Mark Merz, OFDA Past President and Edwin “Mick“ Merz, Funeral Director at Thomas I. Wisniewski Funeral Home
01/30/2024
Funeral Director and Owner of Nosek-McCreery Funeral Home
01/30/2024
Owner/President of John Quint Treboni Funeral Home
01/24/2024
Mother-in-law of Randy Van Hove, Embalmer at Busch Funeral Home and Crematory Services
01/22/2024
Former employee of Hilliard-Rospert Funeral Home, father and father-in-law of Dan and Belinda Rospert, Owners and Funeral Directors of Hilliard-Rospert Funeral Home
01/21/2024
Sister-in-law of Tim Roberts, Owner and Funeral Director of Roberts Funeral Home
01/18/2024
Retired Funeral Director and Past Mortuary Response Team Member
01/15/2024
Mother of Julia A. Sullivan, Funeral Director at Schoedinger Funeral Service
01/15/2024
Grandfather of Richard Michael Williams, Funeral Director and Owner of R.M. Williams Funeral Service
01/11/2024
Employee of Newcomer Funeral Homes
01/10/2024
Grandmother of Amy Bican, Funeral Director at Bican Brothers Funeral Home
01/10/2024
Sharon Lemke, Wife of George Lemke, Past Executive Director of the Casket and Funeral Supply Association
01/09/2024
Owner and Retired Funeral Director of Walter Martens and Sons Funeral Home
01/04/2024
Retired Funeral Director and Attorney of Tomon Funeral Home
01/03/2024
Retired Funeral Director and Owner, Father of Kathleen Blackstone-Tomasino and Grandfather of Danielle Altaffer, all of Blackstone Funeral Home
12/22/2023
Board of Directors, Past Presidents, State Association Executives, FSF Trustees, NFDA Past Board Members, and NFDA staff
09/18/2023
Former Owner and Father of John R. Lafferty, both of Lafferty Funeral Home Inc.
08/16/2023
President and Owner of Crematory Manufacturing & Service
08/10/2023
OFDA Past President
07/13/2023
OFDA Past President and Father of Rob Rue, both of Littleton & Rue Funeral Home
07/06/2023
Retired Funeral Director of Brown Funeral Homes
07/06/2023
Mother and Mother-in-Law of Stacie and Mark Whetstone, Owners of Morton & Whetstone Funeral Home
06/19/2023
Mother of Clay and Trent Snyder, Grandmother of Chad and C.D. Ridge Snyder, Sister-in-law of Paul Snyder, and relation to other Snyder family associates with Snyder Funeral Homes
06/19/2023
Employee of DeJohn Funeral Home
06/19/2023
Funeral Director at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services
06/14/2023
Brother of Kimberly Lindsey and Brother-in-Law of OFDA Past President Walter Lindsey (Previous Co-Owners of Lindsey Funeral Home - Now Snyder Funeral Homes-Lindsey Chapel)
06/12/2023
Retired Funeral Director/Owner of Smith & Ogle Funeral Home and Father of Kimberly Ogle, Funeral Director at Brown-Dawson-Flick Funeral Home
06/08/2023
Grandmother of Kaitlin Antinelli, Apprentice at Newcomer Cremations, Funerals, and Receptions
06/08/2023
Retired Funeral Director and Owner of Vodrazka Funeral Home
06/07/2023
Mother of Julia Wiget, Funeral Director at Roger W. Davis Funeral Home
06/06/2023
Brother-in-law of Patrick O'Connor, Retired Owner/Funeral Director with Schuster-Straker-O'Connor Funeral Home
05/24/2023
Former Funeral Director and Program Director at Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science
05/16/2023
Former Funeral Director and District 5 President; Select Producer/Prearrangement Specialist with Frederick Funeral Home
05/15/2023
Father of Bob Brehm, Funeral Director at Eagle-Marry Funeral Home
05/15/2023
Funeral Director/Embalmer/Celebrant and Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Chief of Staff at Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science
05/15/2023
Retired Funeral Director of Webb Noonan Funeral Home and Semi-Retired Funeral Director of Weigel Funeral Home
05/01/2023
Father of Nanette (Harold) Waite, Grandfather of Christopher (Ashley) Waite, Waite Funeral Home
05/01/2023
Wife of the late Donald K. Anderson, Co-owner of Anderson-Ebright Funeral Home
04/25/2023
Retired Funeral Director and Father of Jon Deitloff, OFDA Past President, Tobias Funeral Home
04/18/2023
Father of Brian and Grandfather of Gerald "J.J." and E. Miles Foos of Foos & Foos Funeral Home
04/17/2023
Former Owner of Clark-Kirkland-Barr Funeral Home
04/17/2023
Sister of Jonathan Kirkland and Daughter of the late Richard Kirkland, Past Owners of Clark-Kirkland-Barr Funeral Home
04/13/2023
Wife of Robert D. Webster and Mother of Michael and Ben Webster of the Webster Funeral Home
04/06/2023
Mother-in-Law of Terry J. Summers and Grandmother of Vanessa Summers, both of Summers Funeral Home
04/06/2023
Wife of the late G. William (Bill) and Mother to Todd and Tim Thompson of William Thompson & Son Funeral Home
04/05/2023
Husband of Amy Baucher, OFDA Professional Development & Events Coordinator
04/04/2023
of Chambers Funeral Home, Cleveland - wife of the late William, mother of Therese and aunt to Dan and Brian Chambers and Stephen Tirpak
03/29/2023
Retired owner of Robinson Funeral Home
03/29/2023
Mother-in-law of Thomas Fleming, OFDA Past President
03/29/2023
Sister of Michael, Patrick & Carleen Carlson of Carlson Funeral Homes
03/27/2023
Retired Funeral Director
03/23/2023
Mother & Grandmother to Daniel & Zeb Lucas, Lucas-Batton Funeral Home
03/06/2023
Wife of Steve Shopp, Longtime Secretary of the Embalmers Association of Cleveland
03/06/2023
Former Owner and Father of Retired Owner, Gary Cromes, both of Cromes Funeral Home
02/23/2023
Father of Nicholas Previte, Vitantonio-Previte Funeral Home, and Grandfather of Anthony Previte, Orlando-Donsante-Previte Funeral Home
02/16/2023
Mother and Mother-in-Law of Mitch and Laurie Babcock, Owners of Davis-Babcock Funeral Home, Inc.
02/10/2023
Mother of Bryan “BJ” Westbrock, Funeral Director and Owner of Westbrock Funeral Homes
02/09/2023
Mother-In-Law of Robert Mazzarella, Owner of American Coach Sales and American Limousine Service
02/06/2023
Funeral Director at Cox-McNulty Funeral Home
02/06/2023
Funeral Director, Former Co-Owner, Father-in-Law of Jim Donovan, and Grandfather of James Donovan, all of Donovan Family Funeral Homes & Cremation Services
01/31/2023
Funeral Director and Father of Tim Jagers, Co-owners of Jagers & Sons Funeral Home
01/16/2023
Mother and Mother-in-Law of Brenda and Rick Snider; Grandmother of Abby Robinson, all of Baker-Hazel and Snider Funeral Home
01/13/2023
Mother of Jon Deitloff, OFDA Past President, Tobias Funeral Home
01/13/2023
Father-in-law of William Smith, Managing Funeral Director at John Quint Treboni Funeral Home
01/11/2023
Mother-in-Law of Lori Hicks, OFDA Past President, Mueller Funeral Home
12/29/2022
Mother of Jordyn Lynne Schaich, Funeral Director at Penwell Turner Funeral Home
12/27/2022
Licensed Funeral Director and Salesman at Bass-Mollett Funeral Supply
12/22/2022
Former Owner of The DeJohn Funeral Home & Crematory (formerly Ritondaro)
