J. W. Call and Son Funeral Home

We are committed to providing service to meet the needs and desires of each individual family that are caring, dignified and affordable. We are your friends and neighbors who live and work with you every day. All of our staff are local people who live in this community. We like to think that we are "Friends helping Friends".


Gary K. Justice, licensed funeral director and embalmer, is the owner of J. W. Call Funeral Home. He is the son of the late Perry A. Justice and Jean Gross Justice of Pikeville. He is married to Karen Ratliff of Elkhorn City, daughter of Dale and LaVerne Ratliff of Elkhorn. He has three children, Brock Justice, Braye Justice Rueff, and Brandt Justice. Having grown up in the funeral business, he has worked for many years as a funeral director and attended the College of Boca Raton Mortuary Science, where he received his embalming license.


Leah Hampton A Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer, Leah is a 1989 graduate of Mid-America College of Funeral Service in Jeffersonville, Ind. She is a member of Pi Sigma Eta. Leah has been with J.W. Call Funeral Home since 1989. She is licensed to sell insurance- based pre-arranged funeral plans and life and health insurance in the state of Kentucky. She is the wife of Zeb Hampton and the daughter of Earl Francisco of Belcher, Ky. and the late Malissa Damron Francisco.

She and Zeb have two children and two grandchildren. She is active with the Floyd-Pike Counties Women Bowlers Assoc. and enjoys bowling on a league that the Funeral Home has sponsored for many years.


Zeb Hampton A Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer, Zeb is a 1974 graduate of the Kentucky School of Mortuary Science in Louisville, Ky., which was later to become Mid-America College of Funeral Service. He is the husband of Leah Hampton and the son of Clarence and Vernie Hall Hampton of Jonancy. He and Leah have two children and two grandchildren. He is an active member of Kiwanis International and a member of the Thomas C. Cecil Masonic Lodge F & AM #375 of Pikeville and a member of the El Hasa Shrine and a member of the Moose Lodge #1613. He is a Pike County Deputy Coroner with approximately 300 hours of training through the Department of Criminal Justice Training at Eastern Kentucky State University.