Our mission is simple: Saving Lives. Restoring Health. Giving Hope. Quality It is LifeNet Health's policy to achieve total customer satisfaction in all of the products and services we provide, and to continuously improve quality, using quality materials, equipment, and processes, by skilled, well-trained professionals, in an environment of positive change that promotes employee and management involvement and responsibility. Vision LifeNet Health will be the leading provider of organ donation and tissue banking services through innovation, quality, service and availability.
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LifeNet Health is a non-profit global leader in regenerative medicine and the world's largest provider of allograft bio-implants and organs for transplantation. Our mission is simple: Saving Lives. Restoring Health. Giving Hope. Since 1982, LifeNet Health has helped to save lives, restore health and give hope to thousands of patients each year. It is the world's most trusted provider of transplant solutions, from organ procurement to new innovations to bio-implant technologies and cellular therapies - a leader in the field of regenerative medicine, while always honoring the donors and healthcare professionals that allow the healing process.
CONTACT
Christopher Albrecht (christopher_albrecht@lifenethealth.org)
Cameron Axelson (cameron_axelson@lifenethealth.org)
Best Western Great Northern Hotel-Helena, MT
Located in Helena, Best Western Premier Helena Great Northern Hotel is a 3-minute walk from Exploration Works and 5 minutes by foot from Helena Civic Center. This hotel is 0.6 mi (0.9 km) from Carroll College and 0.6 mi (1 km) from Cathedral of St. Helena. Make yourself at home in one of the 100 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves.
Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, while 42-inch LCD televisions with satellite programming provide entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes and desks, as well as phones with free local calls. Enjoy a range of recreational amenities, including an indoor pool, a spa tub, and a 24-hour fitness center.
Additional amenities at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access and a ballroom. Enjoy a meal at the restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. A complimentary full breakfast is included. Featured amenities include a business center, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services.
Planning an event in Helena? This hotel has 8000 square feet (720 square meters) of space consisting of conference space and a meeting room. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary (available 24 hours).
Welcome Thank you for your interest in the Timeless Traditions’ Tear Bottle gift line and our other gifts of the soul.
About Us – Our Mission Timeless Traditions is the leading designer, creator and producer of tear bottles in the U.S., and a wholesale marketer of inspirational products.
The mission of our company is to provide heirloom quality gifts that enhance and heal relationships and that bring people in closer relation to one another in a special spiritual way. Our heirloom quality keepsakes were created to honor and cherish those we love. We create and select the gifts we offer to celebrate life’s passages, and remind those we love that they are never alone. Our tear bottles are Made in the U.S.A. using lead-free metals and the highest quality standards. Retailer display materials provided with the original order. We are a Montana-based company honored to serve customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. We strive to provide our customers with unique high quality gift products and exceptional customer service.
Timeless Traditions, Inc. 1627 West Main Street #368 Bozeman, MT 59715
Hours: M-F 8:30 – 5:30 Mountain Time.
Phone at (406) 388-2900 Fax Orders to: 1-866-338-8003
Email: info@timelesstraditionsgifts.com
We are the leading wholesale supplier of historically-inspired tear bottles. These small exquisite glass bottles are used to symbolize deep emotion and are a unique and personal gift choice for many meaningful occasions.Tear bottles are used to express many sentiments. They can represent tears of joy at a memory, hold tears of heartache upon the loss of a loved one, or keep ashes, a lock of hair, dried flowers, earth from a special place or some other memento of your loved one. All of our tear bottles are made in the USA with lead-free metal decorations.
We also represent high-quality jewelry lines that are hard-to-find, express feelings of the heart and are well priced for today’s discriminating buyer. Check out our beautiful keepsake jewlery line designed to hold a remembrance of your loved one close at heart.
Please explore our site to learn more about the fascinating tear bottle traditions and to preview our beautiful line of bottles.
Since 2001, funeral homes, crematories and retailers have come to Timeless Traditions for unique and memorable heirloom-quality keepsakes that will help them build customer loyalty by providing customers with a distinctive gift choice that honors relationships in a powerful way.
“The tear bottle product line has been good for us, and has become a main part of our business. With cremation rates continuing to increase within the funeral industry, the tear bottles and cremation jewelry from Timeless Traditions are a way to increase our bottom line. These keepsakes are versatile in use and affordable for a broad range of our customers. Multiple purchases per family are the norm. The tear bottles are very personal and meaningful keepsake line that also has appeal to many of our customers because it’s important to them that they are Made in the U.S.A.. Steve Schnider, Schnider Funeral Home, Great Falls, MT MFDA Past President (2005)
Timeless Traditions, Inc. customer since 2004
Our Tear Bottles and various other products are Made in the U.S.A.
https://timelesstraditionsgifts.com/index.htm
MFDA would like to thank Ken and his team at Federated for their great support through the years. Not only are they the endorsed partner of MFDA but also help to sponsor the convention and the Montana dinners at the national convention, have supplied us with free lanyards, and are always available when the association is in need of a speaker to help your businesses be safe. For your insurance needs call Ken.
Ken Deason is a 23 ½ year employee with Federated. The first 17 years of his career was spent managing the Underwriting and Administration team for the Group Health Insurance products and training the Marketing force on this line of coverage. The last 6+ years have been spent in our Association Risk Management Services area working with 90 of the Affinity Partners as their Account Executive.
Federated Insurance is proud to be The Montana Funeral Directors Association’s endorsed partner for Property & Casualty Insurance and Risk Management needs. Federated specializes in the funeral profession and provides policyholders with resources and training to assist in the day-to-day operation of their business. We are a trusted advisor to this profession as evidenced by our 2 National and 31 State partnerships.
We are rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best® and recommended by more than 500 state and national associations. As a mutual insurance company, we believe our value is measured by the success of our clients®.
Ken Deason ALMI, ACS, HIA |
Account Executive Federated Insurance – Association Risk Management Services
121 East Park Square, Owatonna MN 55060 (Mail Code CII-104)
O: (507) 444-6660 | C: (507) 363-1762 | E: kddeason@fedins.com
Medallion Vault & Casket Company is a Billings, Montana-based casket,vault and cremation urn distributor, serving Montana and Wyoming funeral homes. Started in 1983, Medallion is a second generation family-run business providing personal, friendly, and professional service to it clients, and ultimately to grieving families those clients serve.
Medallion Vault & Casket Co offers a full line of American made caskets, vaults and cremation urns.
Medallion has been a faithful Associate partner of MFDA for many years.
Jeff and Jacqueline Courts
PO BOX 80324
Billings, MT 59108
406-652-6605
Matt Coon
of Medallion
District Governor on the MFDA Board of Directors.
Every family deserves an opportunity to understand why ceremony, ritual, and gathering still matter — why we will always need meaningful connection during a time of loss. Our work goes beyond selling policies. Quality preneed provides a path to healing when it’s needed most.
About Precoa
Precoa (the Preneed Company of America) is a national leader in preneed sales and marketing, committed to enriching life through meaningful connection. Precoa partners with leading funeral homes, providing the best resources in preneed with its fully-integrated ProActive Preneed® system to help families across America begin healing following the loss of a loved one. Founded in 2004 by Bret Davis and Mark Hornibrook in Portland, Precoa employs more than 330 people, plus a network of more than 600 independent preneed agents, nationwide.
Dennis Beverlin
dennisb@precoa.com
Dennis Beverlin is a long time friend and associate member of MFDA. Dennis is the first one to volunteer to help out with the conventions, district meetings, and the annual golf tournament.
This man is worth his weight in gold and we thank him for being a valued member of the association.
https://www.precoa.com/
SinsoSource International
SinoSource has proudly been serving the funeral industry since 1994. We are a funeral merchandise company that takes pride in our high standards of quality and personalized service, supplying a line of products including cremation urns, caskets and memorial items.
SinoSource has a knowledgeable and experienced team with deep ties to the funeral industry. We fully stand behind our products, and we are confident in our ability to serve funeral professionals and their families with an exceptional selection of merchandise at the best value.
Jess Hunsaker has been sales representative for SinoSource since 1999 after Jess retired from Funeral Service in January of 1998. I like most of you, who may read this, I am a licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer in Utah and Idaho. I worked as a Funeral Director in Ogden, Utah for 39 years, retiring in 1998. Soon after I retired, I started working conventions with my son Robert, who was Vice President of Marketing and Sales for SinoSource. Brigitte was still working for Union Pacific Railroad and this gave me the opportunity to spend one-on-one time with my son. It wasn’t long after that Robert asked me to call on the funeral homes in Utah and Idaho to show SinoSource products. It didn’t take long for Robert asked me if I wanted to be the Intermountain Regional Rep, which included Montana. What a great opportunity to do something different, call on Funeral Homes all over the West.
Brigitte had a 33 year career with Union Pacific Railroad. We began to travel together when she retired and what fun we had. We were able to see so much of the Western United States, while calling on funeral homes. It is unbelievable how many new friends we have made. The Montana Funeral Directors Association and Montana Directors themselves have been so good to SinoSource, Brigitte and myself. You have made us feel we are part of your Montana Funeral Family. I think we have been to every MFDA Convention for the past 20 years. You may have also seen Brigitte and I at one of many National Conventions; NFDA, CANA, ICCFA, while we were helping with the SinoSource booth.
I applaud MFDA for the time and money they spend to keep Funeral Service a real profession. There are very few state associations who do what you do.
How things have changed in the Funeral Industry the past 50 years. For those of you who heard our daughter, Christine, speak at the convention two years ago, you know how cremation has changed everything for all of us.
Thanks to all of you who have done so much for SinoSource, and Brigitte and I. Looking forward to a continued relationship with all of you.
Ken Jiang, Owner and President of SinoSource International
Jess and Brigitte Hunsaker, your SinoSource Sales Reps
School of Mortuary Science
3491 W Wights Fort Rd, #143F
West Jordan, UT 84088
The Mortuary Science Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree provides general, technical and clinical education to students entering careers in funeral service. The program prepares students to take the National Board Exam. As a graduate, you can then apply for licensure in the state in which you will work. Salt Lake Community College is the only college in Utah to offer an AAS degree in Mortuary Science. The program serves students from Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Wyoming.
To view the Mortuary Science program aims and purpose, core schedule and National Board Exam pass rate, please visit: slcc.edu/mortuaryscience The Mortuary Science degree program at Salt Lake Community College is accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education (ABFSE): 992 Mantua Pike, Suite 108, Woodbury Heights, NJ 08097 Phone: 816-233-3747 Website: abfse.org WHY SLCC? This program offers you: • Interactive classroom curriculum • Personalized attention • State-of-the-art labs and facilities • Professionally licensed faculty with extensive experience in the profession • Clinical training in licensed local funeral homes MORE INFORMATION Division of Health Professions 801-957-6200 Academic Advisor 801-957-6215 slcc.edu/mortuaryscience
David S. Hess, M.S. Ed. Associate Professor/Program Director
David S. Hess, M.S. Ed. Associate Professor/Program Director David is a graduate of Southern Illinois University earning a Master of Science degree in Education with emphasis on Vocational Education, a Bachelor of Science degree focusing on small business management, and an Associate of Applied Science degree in Mortuary Science and Funeral Service. He has been active in funeral service for over 30 years as a licensed funeral director and embalmer in Illinois, Missouri and Utah. David has been active in all facets of funeral service and community service, serving in various clubs and organizations and has completed over 400 hours of continuing education and professional development. He is recognized as a Paul Harris Fellow with Rotary International and has served as Deputy Coroner in Alexander County, Illinois. David developed the curriculum and courses for the Mortuary Science program at Salt Lake Community College and oversees the maintenance and assessment of the program. He has guided the program through Initial Accreditation with the American Board of Funeral Service Education and recently guided the program through the re-accreditation process. As an Assistant Professor, David teaches the majority of the core courses of the program focusing on the sciences. He has served as the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee, the Curriculum Analysis & Implementation Council and is currently a member of other College sub-committees at Salt Lake Community College. David has served as the Chair of the National Board Exam Liaison Committee with the American Board of Funeral Service Education and is also a past president of the University Mortuary Science Education Association. David is active in funeral service education nationally by participating in American Board of Funeral Service Education curriculum review workshops, serving on funeral service education accreditation review teams, where he most recently reviewed funeral service education programs at John Tyler Community College and Delgado Community College, and by participating in item writing workshops with The International Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards.
Jeff Zealley Assistant Professor
Mortuary Science Program
Salt Lake Community College