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FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS
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NEWS
Association
CONTINUED
LAKE BLUFF,IL—
The
Casket & Funeral Supply
Association of America
(CFSA) held its annual Fall
Conference & Trade Show
at the JW Marriott in In-
Casket & Funeral Supply Association of America Holds Successful Fall
Conference & Trade Show, Elects Officers and Directors
Seventeen Past CFSA Presidents were in attendance at the Conference.
President Tina Houck
CFSA Board of Directors
dianapolis, Indiana, on November 10-11, 2014. Nearly
300 representatives from the funeral supply industry –
including from Canada and Guatemala – attended the
successful event celebrating the association’s 101-year
anniversary. Seventeen past CFSA presidents attended,
spanning over 30 years.
Kim Ryan
, President of
Batesville Casket Company
,
was the keynote speaker and drew a crowd as she high-
dustry, and a special breakout session of panelists shared
credit-management best practices.
Tom Fretwell
of
Free-
man Metal Products
was awarded the 2014 CFSA Life-
time Recognition Award during the two-day conference.
Also at the conference, CFSAmembers elected as their Pres-
ident:
Tina Houck
, currently president of
Schuylkill Hav-
en Casket Company
, Schuylkill Haven, PA. Ms. Houck is
CFSA’s 65th person elected to this office in the association’s
Jones
,
Aurora Casket Company
, Aurora, IN; and
Jason
Mims
,
Cherokee Casket Company
, Griffin, GA. Each
director will serve a three-year term.
They join returning Directors:
Steven Gadaleta
,
NorthStar Industries
, Batesville, IN;
Shannon Robin-
son
,
Matthews Casket Divi
101-year history. Her father, the late
DonaldW. Houck
, was
CFSA’s 38th president and served from 1987-88.
Joining Ms. Houck as 2014-15 CFSA Officers are:
Pe-
ter Galletly
(Vice President),
Tiedemann-Bevs Indus-
tries
, Richmond, IN;
Gerald (Jerry) Burchett
(Trea-
surer),
IVC Industrial
Coatings
, Brazil, IN; and
Louis Tobia, Jr
., (Imme-
diate Past President),
New
England Casket Co
., East
Boston, MA.
Newly-elected
Direc-
tors are:
Jeanette Hiem-
stra
,
Keith M. Merrick
Company
, Sibley, IA;
Bill