Pub. 3 2024 Issue 3

Anderson Stevenson & Wilke Funeral HomeAsper Funeral Homes — ShelbyAustin Funeral & Cremation ServicesAxelson Funeral and Cremation ServiceBell MortuaryBenton Funeral HomeBig Sky Cremations & Twitchell Funeral ServiceBlaine County Funeral ChapelBullis MortuaryBrundage Funeral HomeClayton-Stevenson Memorial ChapelCloyd Funeral HomeColumbia MortuaryCreel Funeral HomeDahl Funeral & CremationDahl Funeral Chapel of BozemanDarlington Cremation and Burial ServiceDaly Leach Memorial ChapelDokken-Nelson Funeral […]

The Montana State Board of Funeral Service held its quarterly meeting on July 17, 2024, in Helena.

NFDA will continue its active involvement with the administration, relevant federal agencies, private organizations and state government and agencies when appropriate to ensure that the role of funeral service in any mass-fatality disaster is clearly defined and adequately reflected in their policies.

On May 22, the Office of Justice Programs’ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) announced the launch of the “Children’s Justice Project” to accelerate the identification of children and youth who have been found deceased but have not yet been identified. According to the National Institute of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, an estimated 1,000 cases of unidentified children remain unresolved across the country.

We just had our leadership conference in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Our MFDA President Steve Kirkegard, MFDA Executive Assistant Terri James, and I, as the NFDA Montana state representative for MFDA, attended. It was a time to reconnect with other association leaders and to follow up on issues we currently face in our profession and to help us as leadership members to better serve our association.

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