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SEPTEMBER 2015
FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS
S ec t i on A
(L to R) Front Row: John Faidell, Clarence Lyons, Rebecca Ridley, Adrianne Faggas, Barbara
Kazmierczak, Courtney Fitzgibbons, Federick Dello Russo and Chris Berg. Back Row: Kevin Sullivan,
Thomas MacKinnon, Peter Zaksheski and Anthony Nowak
NEWS
Association
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WEYMOUTH,MA—
The
Massachusetts
Funer-
al Directors Association
(MFDA)
has announced
that
Frederick N. Dello
Russo, Jr.
of Medford will
serve as president of the or-
ganization for the 2015-
16 term. The officers and
board of directors were re-
cently installed at the orga-
nization’s annual meeting
held at the Hawthorne Ho-
tel in Salem, MA.
A licensed funeral director
since 1987, Russo operates
the
Dello Russo Family Fu-
neral Homes
in Medford,
Woburn and Wilmington
with his family.
Serving with Russo on the
2015-2016 MFDA Execu-
tive Committee are: First
Vice President
Courtney A.
Fitzgibbons, Boston Har-
borside Home of JS Wa-
terman & Son-Waring-
Langone,
Boston; Second
Vice President
Christopher
W. Berg,
Chapman,
Cole
& Gleason Funeral Home
and Cremation Services,
Wareham; Secretary/Trea-
surer
Clarence R. Lyons, C.
R. Lyons & Sons Funeral
Directors,
Danvers; Imme-
diate Past President
Peter A.
Zaksheski,
Anthony Me-
morial/Frank A. Welsh Fu-
neral Home,
Chelsea; Past
President
Rebecca Ridley,
Davis Funeral Home,
Bos-
ton.
The 2015/16 Board of Di-
rectors include:
Frederick
E. Cafasso,
Cafasso Fu-
neral Home,
Everett;
Adri-
anne Faggas,
Faggas Fu-
neral Home
, Watertown;
John F. Faidell, Dahlborg-
MacNevin Funeral Home,
Brockton;
Robert M. Fol-
som,
Folsom Funeral Ser-
vice,
Dedham;
Barbara A.
Kazmierczak, Dirsa-Morin
Funeral Home Inc,
Worces-
ter;
Charles D. Keefe, Keefe
Funeral Home,
Cam-
bridge;
Thomas J. MacKin-
non,
MacKinnon Funeral
Home, Whitman; H. Tracy
Mitchell, Roberts-Mitch-
ell Funeral Service,
Med-
field;
Anthony J. Nowak,
Nowak Funeral and Cre-
mation Services,
Indian Or-
chard ;
Kevin J. Sullivan,
Edward V. Sullivan Funer-
al Home,
Burlington;
Wil-
liam C. Moore
,
Prophett,
Chapman, Cole & Gleason
Funeral Home and Crema-
tion Services,
Bridgewater
serves a
NFDA’s
Policy Board
Member, and
Margaret M.
Nolan
serves as Executive
Director.
The Massachusetts Funeral
Directors Association is the
funeral directors professional
community and is the recog-
nized voice and resource for
information on issues affect-
ing the funeral service profes-
sion as well as the bereaved
MFDA Announces New Officers and Board of Directors
