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Editor’s Note: Gary Finch and the OSHA
Compliance column is on vacation this month.
The column will return in the October issue. See
archived columns from all of our contributors,
as well as full issues of the Funeral Home &
Cemetery News at .
Gary Finch is a licensed funeral director and embalmer in Texas. He founded Compliance Plus in
1992. Today, they represent over 700 funeral homes and cemeteries in 37 states. Compliance Plus also
serves as an advisory consultant for the International Order of the Golden Rule. For more information
on Compliance Plus visit . Contact Gary by phone at (800) 950-1101 or by
e-mail at .
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OSHA
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Conchita and Judge Bernard Fielding
Conchita and Bernard Fielding, Fielding Home for Funerals, Charleston, SC
South Carolina Member of the Year and Hall of Fame Funeral Home
The Fielding Home for Funerals was
founded in 1912 by Julius Parks Levy
Fielding, who was the first President of
the South Carolina Colored Funeral Di-
rectors and Embalmers Association, now
known as the South Carolina Morticians
Association. Judge Bernard Fielding and
his wife Conchita represented the historic
firm, which has 3 locations in the Charles-
ton area, during the 100BWFS awards
presentation at the recent NFDMA annu-
al convention in Myrtle Beach.
The family legacy of Bar-
bara V. Nelson, LFD, Trail-
blazer and Visionary was rec-
ognized as the recipient of
the Dottie F. Hector Life Time
Achievement Awardnamed in
honor of the 100BWFS late
President and Co–Founder.
Barbara V. Nelson, CFSP
served as the first female
President of the South Car-
olina Morticians Association.
She is the granddaughter of
Jacob and Leila Moultrie,
who founded the JB Moult- Dorothy Moultrie Richardson Barbara V. Nelson
Barbara V. Nelson, Dorothy’s Home for Funerals, Charleston, SC
Life Time Achievement Award Honoree
rie Funeral Home in 1923. The Moultrie’s
were also founding members of the Colored
Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association
of South Carolina. Barbara’s mother, the late
Dorothy Moultrie Richardson, founded
Dorothy’s Home for Funerals with two lo-
cations in South Carolina in 1973. Barbara
has a long list of professional involvements,
community programs, and political and civ-
ic commitments including membership in
NFDMA, SCMA, and 100BWFS. She has
served as District Governor of the 1st Con-
gressional District, as well as participating in
many religious and fraternal organizations.
“Barbara is one of the most respected and
honored female colleagues in the state of
South Carolina and my personal “She-Roe”
of the funeral profession. She is a woman
of vision and action,” stated Orangeburg
County Coroner and 100BWFS member
Samuetta Marshall during her introduc-
tion of Barbara at the 100BWFS booth in
Myrtle Beach. Today, Dorothy’s Home for
Funerals is operated by the 3rd, 4th and 5th
generation of family professionals sharing
their legacy and vision for business.
Grippon Boags Chardale Murray
Grippon Boags, Master Mortician, Murray’s Mortuary, North Charleston, SC
2017 South Carolina Man of the Year
Recognized for his accom-
plishments, Grippon Bo-
ags is the former owner of
the historic Harleston-Bo-
ags Funeral Home which
he purchased in 1978. Cur-
rently Grippon is the Mas-
ter Mortician and senior staff
member at Murray’s Mortu-
ary in North Charleston.
Chardale Murray, LFD
and president of Murray’s
said “Congratulations to
Mr. Grippon Boaggs, a Liv-
ing Legend of Funeral Ser-
vice, Master Mortician and role model on our
staff. It is an honor to have a mentor and trail-
blazer working side by side with a new gen-
eration of funeral professionals.” Chardale is
a graduate of Gupton-Jones College of Funer-
al Service. On March 15, 2004 Chardale and
Charlie Murray opened the doors to a firm
that is above average taking care of the needs
of individuals when they face possibly one of
the most stressful times of their lives.
Legacies, Trailblazers
and Inductees
“If you have respect for all the people as they are, you can be more
effective in helping them to become better than they are. The heart
that accepts is a heart at Peace.”
The 100 Black Women of
Funeral Service Organization
Elleanor Davis Starks, CFSP
Founder
Irene L. Preston, CFSP
Chairman of the Board
deserving mortuary students. Funeral Service is a life
commitment, a very demanding yet rewarding career
path, and the 100BWFS represent the successful, hard
working women who stand shoulder to shoulder glob-
ally serving families experiencing the loss of life.
During the 80th Annual Convention of NFDMA in
Myrtle Beach, SC, the 100BWFS focused on passing the
torch to the phenomenal next generation while hon-
oring the funeral service greatness of 150 plus years.
Hard work, dedication, challenges and professionalism
are just a few of the virtues that have aided this industry
through turbulent times as African American founders
struggled to build their ventures. Many of these firms
are thriving today through 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th gen-
erations. Empowered by those who came before them,
funeral service professionals continue setting higher
standards, decade after decade.
In the next few months we will feature some of the
great South Carolina family legacies, trailblazers in ed-
ucation from the historic Atlanta College of Mortuary
Science – the institution of Master Morticians – and
the 2018 African American Funeral Service Hall of
Fame Museum inductees. We are honored to share
these stories about funeral service and its heroes. To
donate historic pictures, articles, magazines, etc. to
the AAFSHFM email .
Founded in 1993 in Kissimmee,
FL the 100BWFS membership cel-
ebrates 25 years of excellence as
they continue to showcase the
dedication, compassion, integrity
and strong work ethic of this indus-
try while providing scholarships for
works for a better post-deathing.” People
Magazine stated, “Oregon’s ‘Green Reap-
er’ is on a one-woman crusade to change
the way we bury our dead.”
Elizabeth serves on the Advisory Board
for the Green Burial Council, the envi-
ronmental certification organization set-
ting the standard for green burial in North
America. She is a founding member of
Green Burial Portland, a natural burial con-
sortium, and she starred in the documen-
tary Death Goes Green, an intimate portrait
of the pioneers of the green burial move-
ment, which placed in the International
Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, Canada. She
is also an actress in commercials, film work,
voice overs, and has appeared in three epi-
sodes of the NBC series, Grimm. She was
sought after to sell caskets to the prop de-
partment for death-related scenes, and was
consulted with as a mortuary advisor. Eliz-
abeth is currently the voice of the autopsy
exhibit in the forensic wing at the United
States National Museum of Medicine.
Elizabeth Fournier releases The Green
Reaper: Memoirs of an Eco-Mortician