Lewis Funeral Home

H. Reiss Tiffany of Cinnaminson died Wednesday, March 1, 2017. He was 88.He was the husband of the late Betty Corinne (Lewis) Tiffany; father of Risa Tiffany-Morey and Marla S. Tiffany; and grandfather of Tiffany Morey, Tamara Morey, Kyle Middleton and Craig Middleton.Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Saturday, March 11, at the Lewis Funeral Home, 78 E. Main St., Moorestown, where visitation will be from 1 to 2 p.m. Private interment will be in Mt. Laurel Cemetery, Mt. Laurel.Please no flowers, instead memorial contributions to the Sierra Club would be appreciated.Condolences may be left at Web site below.Lewis Funeral Home,Moorestownlewisfuneralhomemoorestown.com#ndn-video-player-3.ndn_embedded .ndn_floatContainer { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; }...

NAVARRE — Shirley Brown may have joked that she didn't like her title as "First Lady of Navarre," but it was a fitting moniker.After more than 30 years of volunteering, ribbon cuttings and community outreach in Navarre, Brown passed away Dec. 23. She was 81.Shirley and her late husband of 55 years, Warren "Charlie" Brown, were active in the Navarre community and made friends everywhere they went. When Charlie passed away in 2011, Shirley continued to be active by volunteering with the Navarre Garden Club, Holley Navarre Seniors Center, First Baptist Church of Fort Walton Beach and serving on the board for Baptist Hospital in Navarre."She was the most active woman I'd ever known," said Tommy Vatter, co-owner of Kool Breeze. "She was a very remarkable woman."Vatter was one of Shirley's "adopted sons," as she called them. She and Charlie never had children, but they had hundreds of friends who they treated like family. Over the course of their 30-year friendship, Vatter and Shirley would go out to lunch about once a month. He'd order liver and onions and she'd order pork chops. If he missed a date, Shirley would stop by his office to talk about "anything and everything.""I will miss that," he said of her visits. "She was sweet ... I have a lot of fond memories."CEO of Greater Navarre Area Chamber of Commerce Tony Alexander was another one of Shirley's adopted sons. When it came to getting information on the Navarre community, Shirley was the person to talk to."She was a tremendous resource of historical knowledge, having lived here since the 1970s," he said. "And there was not a person Shirley didn't know."Like many of her friends, Alexander made one last visit to Shirley's hospital room last week. He said he's grateful for that final memory."She joked that she knew there would come a day when we regretted being adopted ... I had taken her to the emergency room as she got ill," Alexander recalled. "But I told her, 'Mama Shirley, you didn't adopt us. We adopted you.' "Jerr...

They closed it nearly 3 years ago and sold the land when nobody wanted to take over the business. Now, a small group of people is trying to open a new one as a non-profit. For some, Nantucket’s identity as a real community is at stake.There's an effort to build a non-profit funeral home on Nantucket.Ginger Andrews is one Nantucketer who supports the effort to open the non-profit funeral home. She’s dressed in what might be the Nantucket uniform: a wool sweater and Carhartts, driving her pickup down the narrow cobblestone streets with her dog. She left the island for college, but otherwise she’s lived here all her life, sometimes shucking oysters to earn money. "Like everybody did," she said.Other than her great-great-grandfather who drowned in Boston Harbor, she can visit most of her family at the Prospect Hill Cemetery. And for 135 years, it was the Lewis family that buried them.It seems like a strange thing in a way, but not a morbid thing. It is how we heal from our grief. - Ginger AndrewsBut when Ginger Andrews’ mother died last year at 100 years old, the funeral home was gone. Her mother wasn’t religious, but then, the funeral home didn’t feel religious either. Andrews says it was just part of the town. She missed having a place to gather with her friends after her loss.  “It seems like a strange thing in a way, but not a morbid thing,” she said. “It’s how we heal from our grief.”The funeral home closed after losing $200,000 over ten years doing funerals for free for people who couldn’t pay.Nantucket is not the only place to lose its funeral home. In those ten years, nearly 10 percent of funeral homes closed across the country, partly because of the rise in cremations, which don't cost as much. The difference is, Nantucket is an island. You can’t drive to the next town.“Right now we have to send people off island for embalming and then they are shipped back for a funeral or a wake, so it’s made things pretty difficult,” said Catherine Flanagan Stover. She’s the Na...