Key Personnel

Michael Forbes

General Manager

SI Memorials & SI Funeral Services

1609 Union Avenue

Parsons, KS 67357

620.421.5021

mforbes@suhor.com

Mike began his funeral service career when he joined Individual Mausoleum Company in Parsons in 1989.  After serving in various capacities, he was named the company's National Sales Manager, responsible for the operations of 14 retail monument stores.  When Individual Mausoleum Company was acquired by Suhor Industries in 2000, Mike was promoted to Regional Sales and Marketing Manager for the state of Kansas and the additional responsibilities of Parson' Plant Manager in 2003.  In 2005, the Individual Mausoleum name was changed to SI Memorials.

In 2007, Mike was named General Manager of the Parsons plant.  His responsibilities include the day-to-day operation of that facility and burial vault marketing in the area it services; as well as sales management for the SI Veteran Memorials division, retail monument stores in Kansas, and SI Memorials wholesale sales staff. 

In addition to being the monument manufacturing hub of the company, the Parsons facility also manufactures concrete burial vaults, opens and closes graves, perform graveside set ups, and produces precast concrete products for the SI Precast Concrete division of Suhor Industries.

A Parsons' native and resident, Mike studied archeology in Israel, Jordan and Cyprus in 1984.  He received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Pittsburg State University in 1988.  Mike and his wife, Jennifer, are the parents of two daughters.

Gary Mosier

Wholesale Sales Manager

SI Memorials

7035 E. 41st Street

Tulsa, OK   74145

918.583.2641

gmosier@suhor.com

Gary began his funeral service career in 1992 as Sales Manager with Muskogee Marble & Granite in Muskogee, Oklahoma where he was responsible for two retail monument locations and approximately 60 wholesale locations.

He joined Suhor Industries in 1997 as Regional Marketing Manager where he was responsible for all monument sales in Oklahoma as well as retail sales at Tulsa Monument Company and Lawrence Monument Company.

By 2000, his responsibilities had expanded to five retail locations and close to 100 wholesale locations. Mosier currently serves as Vice-President of the Oklahoma Funeral Directors Sales Club.

Gary resides in Tulsa with his wife Jan.

Tim Ash

Marketing Representative

SI Memorials/SI Veteran Memorials

10965 Granada Lane Suite 300

Overland Park, KS 66211

913.345.2120

tash@suhor.com

Tim began his funeral service career with D.W. Newcomer's Sons in 1987 as Manager of its Floral Hills Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri and was Director of Cemetery Operations for 10 locations in Kansas and Missouri.  His experience includes planning and developing mausoleums, lawn crypts, columbaria and new cemetery gardens, as well as overseeing the management for pre-need sales.

In 2007, Tim joined Suhor Industries in 2007 as Marketing Representative for SI Memorials and SI Veteran Memorials for Northern Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska.

Tim is both a licensed funeral director and a licensed real estate agent in the state of Missouri.  He serves on the permanent committee board that oversees the planning and coordination of the annual Memorial Day Ceremony and Event at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, the nation's only World War I memorial.

Born and raised in South Central Kansas, Tim worked in his family's movie theater and drive-in growing up.  After attending Kansas State University, he worked as Area Operations Manager for Dickenson Theaters in Kansas City.  He and his family are residents of Lee's Summit, Missouri.