ROCKER-CUSACK MORTUARY LLC
LEESBURG, FLORIDA

We're dedicated to providing personalized, professional and compassionate services to help lighten your burden and support you through the difficult times that follow the loss of a loved one. We're honored to assist you in your time of need, and would like to assure you that we'll do everything in our power to make your experience a meaningful and memorable one. Here you can explore our unique history, meet our experienced staff, connect with our local community, and hear what our customers have had to say. We believe  that our commitment to families is firmly rooted in our proud history. We invite you to read our story and learn more about the experienced professionals who are here to support and guide you in your time of need. Thank you for taking the time to visit our website. We realize our chosen profession is not a common one; nor is our place of business a favorite place to visit, so we hope what you find is helpful to your needs. Once again, we thank you for paying us a visit.  This website is provided as a service to you, to help you gather information and learn more about the subjects we address. The conventional rituals of traditional funeral services are to bring acceptance, closure, and healing when a loved one is lost. Families turn to the funeral home to help them plan these important rituals because they find comfort in the services we provide, and confidence in our ability to take care of the details properly and completely in their time of bereavement.  When you choose traditional burial, there are decisions that speak to family tradition. These may include a memorial service, family gathering, services at the gravesite, and many others. We enhance your service by personalizing the funeral. We look for ways to recall old memories, create comfortable new ones, and make the tribute meaningful. Our services are designed to help your family's healing process begin.  Please feel free to explore, and certainly to contact us with any questions you may have. We are here to help.  Receive consistent support through our daily email to help you cope, heal, and grieve. Learning office skills from his mother, he soon assisted her with clerical, bookkeeping and attendant duties; and his father with automobile and Cemetery maintenance. Impressed by his intellect and "true grit", Reverend Mack provided him part-time employment throughout High School. Under the guiding hands of the late George Williams, Allen Johnson and Dr. Lancaster Starke, he was awarded the Bausch & Laumb Science Scholarship to the University of Miami, majoring in Biology/Pre-Medicine until drafted into the US Army (no college deferments during the Vietnam War).  After a brief tenure as Manager of James N. Davis Funeral Home, Jacksonville and Manager/Operator of Sunset Funeral Home (now Lewis-Ray Mortuary), Titusville; and following the demise of both of his parents, who had now been named Owners (silent partners), he returned to the place of his earlier employment as Manager/Embalmer. He was also employed for 15 years by the Volusia County School System as a Campus Advisor and retired as Vocational/Career Counselor. Despite the many opportunities and lucrative offers made, in other cities and states, he chose to remain in his beloved hometown of DeLand. Believing that he could be of greater of service to the people he knew best, his focus and watchword was/is "to provide courteous, professional, sympathetic service." Governed by a personal philosophy that "you can't live off the community, if you're not willing to live in the community", he presently serves as: Chairman of Board of Directors/Deacons of Greater Union First Baptist Church, Chairman of "Weed & Seed" for the City of DeLand and is an active School Volunteer and sponsor for Church, community, fraternal and youth athletic programs. He is a member of the Fourth Regional District, Florida Morticians Association (past Chairman), Independent Funeral Directors of Florida, National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association, National Funeral Directors Association, Life Membership NAACP, Citizen's Advisory Task Force and a Board member for College Arms Towers. He also holds membership in the Sickle Cell Disease Association of Volusia County, Charter member, Springhill Kiwanis Club (Board of Directors) DeLand & Lake Helen Chamber of Commerce, VFW Post #2380, Epsilon Nu Delta Mortuary Fraternity, Progressive Pallbearers Lodge # 119 and Senator Coleman Elks Lodge I. B. P. O. E. of W # 1175. His past memberships include: Mu Sigma Tau Honorary Mortuary Fraternity, DeLand High School Advisory Council, Commissioner, DeLand Housing Authority, Board of Directors, African- American Museum of the Arts and Florida Funeral Directors Association.  Receive consistent support through our daily email to help you cope, heal, and grieve.