Our Staff

Charles L. Duke Jr.

Owner and Mortician

Charlie is the owner and operator and  is a licensed funeral director and embalmer who has been with the funeral home since 1995. He is a Midview High School graduate, studied languages in Brittany, France, a graduate from Lorain County Community College and received his Bachelors Degree in Mortuary Science with high honors from the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science. Charlie is a member of the Ohio Embalmers Association and he specializes in embalming and restorative art. He has been the president of the Lorain County Funeral Directors Association since 2006 and served 10 years as a pathologist assistant with the Lorain County Coroner's Office.  He also holds an insurance license with the state of Ohio. Charlie enjoys restoring antique tractors, Civil War history, baling hay , traveling to the mountains of West Virginia and is a member of the LaGrange Engine Club ,the Webster County Historical Society and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. He  enjoys c gardening, , bluegrass gospel singing, church, raising chickens , and Nigerian Dwarf goats .