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| Armentrout Funeral Home |
| 200 E. Wapakoneta St., PO Box 21 Waynesfield, Ohio 45896 419-568-1600 |
| Michael "Mike" Armentrout started working in funeral service when he was 14 years old at Schindewolf-Stevens-Stout Funeral Home in Kenton, Ohio. After graduation from high school, he entered the United States Air Force serving as a Law Enforcement Specialist, from 1976 to 1978. He attended Findlay College, The Ohio State University, Lima Campus and graduated from the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science in Spring 1982. He served his internship in Florida with Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home of Inverness, and then met and married the former Pamela A. Tisdale. Mike and Pam then moved to Columbus, Ohio where he worked at Schoedinger Funeral Service while Pam attained her second BS Degree from Ohio Sate. During this time they started their family with the birth of their daughter, Amanda, and then a year later a son, Matthew. The couple moved to Piqua, Ohio shortly before the arrival of Amanda as Mike had taken a position with the Jamieson and Yanucci Funeral Home. In 1988 the Armentrouts moved back to Columbus where Mike opened Armentrout Funeral Directors Service, an embalming service to funeral homes in and around the central Ohio area. Mike left the funeral business for a short time only consulting and providing support for several funeral homes as he joined the Columbus Division of Police. After several years on the force, Mike was offered a position as Manager of the Hanson-Neeley Funeral Homes of Ada and Alger, Ohio. (This is the funeral home where Mike worked while attending OSU, Lima.) When he accepted the offer, the Armentrout family moved to Alger where Pam started teaching school with the Upper Scioto Valley Schools. In 1999, Mike opened the Armentrout Embalming Service working with 19 funeral homes in northwest and central Ohio. He continued the "trade business" after opening the Armentrout Funeral Home in Waynesfield, Ohio until it became just too much for one man to do. He phased himself out of the embalming service and has dedicated himself totally to the funeral home. Since that time, Mike and his family moved into the "old McAuley Funeral Home building" where they now operate the Armentrout Funeral Home. |