He served his apprenticeship at the Joe Spitler Funeral Home in Montoursville, PA and worked as a Funeral Director for the H. P. Brandt Funeral Home in Pittsburgh and the John Henderson Co. Funeral Home in Johnstown, PA before purchasing the P.O. Contrucci Funeral Home in Ellwood City, Pa. in 1979. In 1990 he purchased the Robert F. Leipheimer Funeral Home in Farrell, Pa.