SAVE THE DATE MFDA 2026 Convention and Trade Show

Member Registration

Vendor and Sponsorship Registration

June 14-16 Historic Butte, Montana

2026 MFDA Convention and Trade Show

SCHEDULE

SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2026

9:00 am-11 am MFDA Board Meeting,

11 am MFDA Annual Golf Tournament. Vendors are welcome to attend and meet the funeral directors

11:00 am Tour of Butte

RSVP Terri to reserve your spot for the tour or the golf tournament | info@montanafda.org

Convention Registration 4 pm-6 pm

Vendor set up 4 pm- 5:30 pm

6-9 Welcome Reception Home of MFDA President Bri Mulvaney

Past President Reception

Awards for Golf and Tour

MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2026

Registration 8 am-9 am

8:30-9:00 am Vendor Breakfast

9 am -9:45 am John T Hill

10 am-12 pm Membership Meeting/Election 2 CE

12-1 pm- Vendor lunch

1-2 pm- Kqyn Kuka

2-3 pm -Fr. Russell Radoicich

3:15-4:15 pm- John T. Hill

5-6 pm- Vendor reception

5:45 pm -Vendor giveaways, prizes

6:30 PM- Dinner and awards

New officers announced

TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2026

7:30-8:00 am-Breakfast

8:00-8:30 am MFDA Board Meeting

8:30 am-9:15 am Service of Remembrance

9:30- 10:15 am-Panel Discussion

10:30- 11:15 am- John T Hill

11:15-11:30 Wrap up

11:30 am Vendor meeting

12:00 PM Teardown

*Schedule subject to change

Guest Speakers

Kqyn Kuka is a descendant of the Blackfeet nation and is the Tribal Liaison and Diversity Coordinator for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Kqyn develops, implements, and administers agency diversity initiatives and programs. She has established and maintains strong relationships with tribal partners through a respectful government-to-government approach to diplomacy. A veteran state game warden with 13 years’ experience in enforcement, Kqyn studied fisheries and wildlife at the Salish and Kootenai College in Pablo Montana. Currently in her fifth year as FWP’s tribal liaison, Kqyn works tirelessly to advocate for partnerships within Indian country across all FWP programs. Her slogan and working philosophy is: “From Stranger to Neighbor.”

John T. Hill is an Undertaker, licensed in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Washington D.C., and Virginia. He has earned many other titles in the funeral profession: Restorative Arts Specialist, Certified Funeral Service Practitioner (CFSP), Member of the British Institute of Embalming (MBIE), Funeral Service Education Instructor, Chaplain, Celebrant, and Certified Crematory Operator (CCO). He works at James Funeral Home and Northlake Memorial Gardens in Huntersville, North Carolina. He owns Hill Mortuary Service, a trade embalming and restorative arts service and trade embalms for Rouse Mortuary Service in Greenville, NC on his days off. He is also a Mortuary Science Instructor at Fayetteville Technical Community College in Fayetteville, NC and Gupton-Jones College of Funeral Service in Atlanta, GA. He became a Restorative Arts Specialist by furthering his education in embalming and restorative arts under Vernie R. Fountain. He has also received continued education in Anatomical Preservation and Dissection Theory. He has a passion not only to serve families during their most difficult time, but to instruct and inspire current and future funeral professionals to better themselves and succeed.

Father Russell Radoicich

Protopresbyter-stavrophore Father Russell Radoicich, parish priest of Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church, Butte

2026 AWARDS

55 Years 1971

Dennis Croxford

45 Years 1981

Steve Schnider

Joe Stevenson

35 Years 1991

William Kropp

Thomas Grymes

Carron A. Grymes

John Dahl

F. Ray Ruffatto

30 Years 1996

Christopher E. Remely

10 Years 2016

Kristen Robertson

Jacklyn Keto- Mason

Steven Kirkegard

5 Years 2021

Marcia Princivalli

Courtney Molloy

Amy Wallace

Ross Holoverson