Wednesday, February 6th was the annual AFCCA Maintenance Seminar, where cemetery staff, supervisors, and managers gather to increase knowledge, learn new skills and hear about innovations when caring for cemetery grounds. This year’s seminar was hosted by Amie Gazda, General Manager of Valley of the Sun Mortuary and Cemetery. The grounds were beautiful and quite accommodating … Read more
On Thursday, January 31, at 9 p.m. ET/PT, 8 p.m. CT, CNBC will air a one-hour documentary Death: It’s a Living, which explores funeral service, a business that CNBC says “everyone confronts yet few understand.” Without knowing exactly what this documentary will entail before it airs, we do know that respected funeral professionals from the NFDA and other funeral … Read more
Article Source: NFDA.Org Washington, d.C. – The Department of Veterans Affairs announced today the availability of the new online funeral directors resource kit. Funeral directors nationwide can use the kit when helping veterans and their families make burial arrangements in VA national cemeteries. “We recognize that veterans and their families need compassion when they approach … Read more
Your AFCCA is excited to announce the line up for this year’s 2013 Cemetery Maintenance Seminar! “Bury, but not Buried” Trench Safety Precautions presented by Trafficade Work Zone “Avoiding Knicks and Getting A Close Pave” Basic Road Maintenance Techniques presented by Cholla Pavement “Batteries not Included” A Two-part Guide to Small Equipment Maintenance presented … Read more
Missing In America project Veterans’ Recovery Program News Advisory/Press Release CEREMONY TO LAY TO REST FORGOTTEN VETERANS The public and media are invited to attend – MIAP Public invitation 2-27-13 On Wednesday, February 27, 2013, the Missing In America Project (MIAP), Veterans Recovery Program will honor 28 Unclaimed Cremated Remains of Arizona Veterans. There … Read more
Why should you join the Arizona Funeral, Cemetery & Cremation Association? Only you can answer that question for yourself. But for me, education is why I joined the AFCCA. For a long time, I knew that our great state had an association. Beyond this, however, I had no real grasp of what the association did for our state … Read more
Hello, I am Kurtis Lauffer, the President of the Arizona Funeral Cemetery and Crematory Association. On Friday December 14, I, along with millions of people in Arizona and this great Nation were touched and saddened when we heard the news of what had happened in the small town of Newtown, Connecticut. Even though all the … Read more
We would like to officially thank each and everyone who came out to the AFCCA Fall Fest 2012! We were busting at the seams on the Lucille’s Smokehouse BBQ Patio with everyone attendance, but it was nice to see so many people having fun and socializing. Lucille’s served up some delicious ribs, chicken and more; … Read more