Our Team

Jim Printy

Licensed Funeral Director/Owner

Jim is a graduate of Worsham College of Mortuary Science and has been a licensed funeral director for over 30 years. A native of Hancock County, Jim is honored to serve the community where he was born and raised. When he is not working, Jim enjoys spending time with his family.

Evan Printy

Licensed Funeral Director/Owner

Evan is a graduate of Carl Sandburg College with a degree in Mortuary Science. While in school, Evan was a member of the honor society Phi Theta Kappa, the vice president of the mortuary science fraternity Sigma Phi Sigma, and graduated with highest honors. He is a member of the Hamilton Kiwanis Club, the Keokuk Rotary Club and the Keokuk Lions Club. He is also a member of New Testament Christian Church in Keokuk, where he leads worship. Evan began working for Printy Funeral Home at a young age, and now serves the community as a licensed funeral director at all locations and manager of Printy Funeral Homes in Keokuk and Warsaw.  Evan lives in Keokuk with his daughters, Ellie and Nora, and enjoys playing pickleball and attending community events in his free time.

Zane Schmudlach

Licensed Funeral Director

Zane attended DMACC, where he earned his degree in Mortuary Science, and is a licensed funeral director intern. Zane was born and raised in Carthage, where he resides with his wife Erin, his daughter, Natalie, and his son, Barron. Zane enjoys spending his free time hunting, golfing, or playing tennis. 

Mark Schmudlach

Licensed Funeral Director

Mark is a lifelong resident of Carthage. He spent four years in the US Army then worked for the Illinois Department of Corrections for twenty-eight years, retiring in 2016. Mark attended DMACC, where he earned his degree in Mortuary Science. In his free time, he enjoys hunting, fishing, and guiding for elk and bear in Idaho.

Amanda Bentzinger

Graphic Designer/Office Manager

Amanda has over 20 years of graphic design experience and works to create beautiful, personalized folders and life tributes for the families we serve - personalization is her specialty. She lives in Carthage, where she was born and raised. In her spare time, Amanda enjoys spending time with her husband, Scott, their children, grandchildren and families.

Fred Doyle

Funeral Associate

Dan Dion

Funeral Associate

Robert Kraus

Funeral Director

Bob is a licensed funeral director for DeJong-Greaves Celebration of Life Centers. Bob helps on many funerals and assists with many other details at the funeral home.

Bob Kraus with his wife Susie became the third generation of the family to own Greaves Mortuary. They operated the business from 1972 until 2011 when it was bought by Dirk and Terry DeJong and became part of the new DeJong-Greaves Celebration of Life Centers. Bob and Susie are enjoying retirement and spending lots of time traveling to see children and grandchildren. Bob plays golf whenever he gets a chance.

Dirk DeJong

Funeral Director, Funeral Celebrant

Dirk is the son of G. William and Dorothy DeJong, who bought the Pearson Funeral Home in 1944 and established DeJong’s Funeral Home. From the time of his birth, he lived in the funeral home building with his family. He helped with the work at the funeral home in many ways. He helped set up tents, carry and drive flowers, answer telephone calls, and whatever else he was asked to do. He graduated from Keokuk High School in 1967 and from SCC. Following his marriage to Theresa Neff in 1972, he attended Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science. Following his graduation, he served an internship at Westover Funeral Home in Des Moines, Iowa. In 1975, he and Theresa returned to Keokuk to join the family firm. He again worked along-side his father and learned to appreciate “Bill’s” knowledge and experience. Following Bill’s death in 1993, Dirk assumed the leadership roll and purchased the business from his mother and sisters.

Dirk is licensed as a Funeral Director and Embalmer in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri and attends annual continuing education classes to stay current in his knowledge and skills. He is also licensed as a Preneed Sales Agent and can contract for preneed trusts and help families deal with existing insurance policies.

He is active in the community. He has served in leadership positions and on the boards of several organizations. He is a member of Trinity United Methodist Church, Masonic Lodge and Shrine, Sons of the American Legion, Keokuk Lions Club, Rotary, Elks Lodge, and has been active in other organizations through the years. He also belongs to National, Iowa and Tri-State Funeral Directors Associations.

Family has influenced him deeply and his four daughters and their families are extremely important to him.

His interests include bicycling, golf, gardening, stained glass, and woodworking.

Theresa “Terry” DeJong

Funeral Director, Certified Funeral Celebrant

Born in Hancock County, Illinois, Terry moved with her parents, Estel and Cecel Neff, to Keokuk in 1958. She attended Keokuk Public Schools, graduating in 1969. She attended SCC and University of Iowa. Terry married Dirk DeJong in 1972 at Trinity United Methodist Church in Keokuk. She moved with him to Dallas, Texas, then to Des Moines, and back to Keokuk. Terry was a stay-at-home mother with their four daughters until 1983. She then began helping and doing part-time work at the funeral home.

Becoming more and more active and interested in the work, she attended both SCC and Carl Sandburg College and received her degree in Mortuary Science in 1997. She became licensed as a Funeral Director and Embalmer in Iowa and Illinois in 1998. She is also licensed as a Preneed Sales Agent and can contract for preneed trusts and help families deal with existing insurance policies. She attended training and became a Certified Funeral Celebrant in 2009. She enjoys helping plan and leading the celebrations of life and remembrance services held at either of their Celebration of Life Centers or at other places selected by families. She is interested in the varied music selected and used in religious and secular services to express the personality of each person remembered and their families.

She is a member of Trinity United Methodist Church, P.E.O. International Sisterhood, Keokuk Area Hospital Auxiliary, National, Iowa and Tri-State Funeral Directors Associations, and is a trained Hospice Volunteer. Family is the center of her life, working side-by-side with Dirk, keeping track of four daughters and sons-in-law, four young grandchildren, and adopted shelter dog, Tupelo.

Her interests include gardening, sewing, crocheting, and stained glass.