Mike

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.