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NEWS Association
Another Successful Iowa FDA Convention
The Premier Midwest Funeral Service Expo was well-attended by funeral directors on May 16-17
in Altoona. The Expo was sold out again this year.
information so they may
return home with new
ideas that will allow them
to better serve the families
in their communities.
Funeral directors arrived
in nearby Pleasant Hill
on Monday, May 15, for
the 13th Annual IFDA
Golf Outing at Toad Val-
ley Golf Course. Golfers
were thrilled to experience
a warm, sunny day and en-
joyed playing 18 holes with
colleagues and friends.
IFDA and other sponsors
provided door prizes for at-
tendees and awarded cash
to the top three teams.
Tuesday morning’s open-
ing ceremonies featured
Governor Branstad’s Iowa
Funeral Directors Week
proclamation. Keynote
speaker Marguerite Ham
shared her presentation,
“Managing Multiple Gen-
erations Under One Roof,”
a program which was de-
signed to create a better
understanding of how dif-
ferent generations inter-
act. Ms. Ham continued
discussion about this sub-
ject while tying the IFDA’s
2017 Convention theme
“Reclaiming Our Cultur-
al Authority,” during her
breakout session Tuesday
afternoon.
Following the keynote
presentation, funeral di-
rectors attended IFDA’s
annual business meeting.
Attendees were invited to
a welcome luncheon and
IFDA past presidents gath-
ered for a special lunch.
The Premier Midwest Fu-
neral Service Expo opened
Tuesday afternoon with
a ceremonial ribbon cut-
ting. Sixty exhibitors pre-
sented everything new and
improved in funeral service
while funeral directors re-
searched the exhibitors and
navigated the hall with the
Guidebook app on their
smartphones.
WEST DES MOINES,IA—
Over 700 people attended
the 2017 Iowa Funeral Di-
rectors Association (IFDA)
Convention last week in Al-
toona. This was the second
consecutive year that the
convention was held in Al-
toona at Prairie Meadows
Hotel & Conference Cen-
ter. The change in location
has been warmly received by
attendees after IFDA moved
its convention and the Pre-
mier Midwest Funeral Ser-
vice Expo from Ames.
The Convention has re-
ceived overwhelmingly pos-
itive reviews from funeral
directors and exhibitors.
The 2017 Annual IFDA Convention, which took place
May 16-18, and featured a variety of expert speakers and
the Premier Midwest Funeral Service Expo attracted ex-
hibitors from across the country.
Speakers at the 137th Annual Convention presented
current information on bereavement education, business
and management practices, regulatory updates, technical
skills and training and additional topics related to the fu-
neral service profession. The IFDA Convention provides
funeral directors with a forum to receive and exchange