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Fink & Stone Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc. - Woodbury

In 1892, D.H. Byers began an Undertaker Business in Woodbury, Pennsylvania. The family business continued through many Byers generations until 1960. In 1960, S. Gerald Weaver purchased the business from Arthur C. Byers; Arthur was D.H. Byers great-great grandson. Gerald and his wife Lois opened and operated S. Gerald Weaver Funeral Home until Lois’s passing in 2016. At that time, Sheldon H. Weaver, son of S. Gerald and Lois opened Weaver Funeral Home, LLC. In April of 2021, Weaver Funeral Home, LLC was sold to Thomas J. Stone and Stone Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Inc. began operation. In August of 2025, Thomas and his business partner Keenan M. Fink opened Fink & Stone Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc. - Woodbury.

Fink & Stone Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc. - Martinsburg

In 1910, Jesse Paul Rearick settled in the Cove from Centre Hall, Pennsylvania, bringing his family, as well as his “undertaker’s” knowledge and skills to Martinsburg to establish the Rearick Funeral Home. Kenton Roy Miller then followed his father-in-law’s footsteps and assumed responsibility of “laying away the dead” of the community through World War II and the Korean War. Kenton’s son-in-law, John Calvin Bolger, then took over the business, while raising his family in the Cove. John’s son, John K. Bolger, joined his father in 1974, to carry on this family tradition of the profession of funeral directing. In November 2014, after working alongside John K. Bolger for 10 years, William J. “Bill” Helsel assumed ownership, under the new name, John K. Bolger Funeral Home Inc. - Martinsburg. In August of 2025, Thomas J. Stone and Keenan M. Fink purchased the establishment from Bill and opened Fink & Stone Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc. - Martinsburg.

Fink & Stone Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc. - Williamsburg

Back in the mid 20th century, there were two funeral homes in the small northeastern Blair County borough of Williamsburg. The Bechtel Funeral Home on the East side of town, was first owned and operated by Homer Bechtel and then, years later, by his son, Owen Bechtel until its closure in the early 1960’s.  S. Gerald Weaver served his apprenticeship under Mr. Bechtel.

More noted, the other, on the West side of town, was operated by a Mr. Whitehead in the 1920’s and on into the 1940’s.  Prior to World War II, James Kline Friedline of Somerset, Somerset County, moved to town to assist in its operation. After the war, having served as a medic, James came home to Williamsburg to purchase this “funeral parlor” in 1947. He served the community as a trusted funeral director there until his retirement at the end of 1973, when he sold the business to John C. “Jack” Bolger of Martinsburg, who formed a Morrisons Cove dual funeral home corporation until his retirement in 1988, eventuality selling it to his son, John K. Bolger, who had assisted his father since 1974. John then headed this corporation for 26 years until his retirement at the end of 2014. 

Bill Helsel, having served as John’s assistant for 10 years prior, then assumed ownership until his retirement in 2025. As of August of that year, Fink and Stone Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc. assumed new ownership of both the Martinsburg and Williamsburg locations, marking a milestone of merging funeral homes, linking the Woodbury with Martinsburg with Williamsburg communities to join the Cove as one common cause to funeral service.