FUNERAL SERVICE IN NORTH CAROLINA

Funeral Service in North Carolina

FUNERAL SERVICE IN NORTH CAROLINA

1. What states are you researching for these answers?

 

Answer. The states are North Carolina and Virginia.

 

2. How numerous members are on the Board?

Answer. There are nine members on the Board and their names and ranks are as follow,

 

ORGANIZATION CHART

2010 BOARD OFFICERS

President- J. T. Willoughby, III - (2010)

Vice-President- George Parrott - (2011)*

Secretary- Tryphina Wiseman - (2011)

BOARD MEMBERS

Larry Andrews- (2010)

Phillip assess Blake - (2010)

Jack D. Briggs - (2011)

Rudy N. Lea - (2011)

  Frank G. McCree, Sr.- (2009)

Elizabeth S. Webber- (2011)*

BOARD STAFF

Paul Harris,  Executive Director

Steve Dirksen, General Counsel

Lyn Cochrane, Executive Assistant

Elizabeth Stegall,  Administrative Services Supervisor

Tanya Pearson, Pre-need Services Administrator

Marty Mills, Administrative Assistant

Carolyn J. Connor, Inspector (West)

Susan Cox, Inspector (Central)

Brett Lisenbee, Inspector (East)

Lloyd H. Davis, Preneed/Burial Association Examiner

Jimmy Featherston, Program Assistant

Virginia W. Harris, Burial Association

 

3. How are the members distributed by occupational class? (How many must be funeral directors, embalmers, or a combination of both licenses?)

Funeral practices and rites alter greatly amidst heritage and religions. However, funeral practices usually share some widespread elements—removing the deceased to a mortuary, preparing the remains, accomplishing a observance that honors the deceased and addresses the spiritual needs of the family, and carrying out final disposition of the deceased. Funeral directors arrange and direct these tasks for grieving families, taking great dignity in their ability to supply solace to family and friends of the deceased and in supplying appropriate services.

Funeral controllers, furthermore called morticians and undertakers, organise the details and handle the logistics of funerals, taking into account the wishes of the deceased and family members. Together with the family, burial controllers set up the position, dates, and times of wakes, memorial services, and burials. They arrange for a hearse to carry the body to the funeral dwelling or mortuary.

Funeral directors prepare obituary notices and have them placed in newspapers, arrange for pallbearers and clergy, schedule the unfastening and closing of a grave with a representative of the cemetery, decorate and prepare the sites of all services, and supply transportation for the deceased, mourners, and flowers between sites. They furthermore direct groundwork and shipment of bodies for out-of-State burial.

 

4. How does one get to be a Board member?

Most funeral controllers furthermore are taught, permitted, and practicing embalmers. Embalming is a sanitary, cosmetic, and preservative method through which the body is arranged for interment. If more than 24 hours elapse between death and interment, State laws usually need that the remains be refrigerated or embalmed.

When embalming a body, funeral directors wash the body with germicidal soap and replace the body-fluid with embalming fluid to preserve the tissues. They may reshape and reconstruct bodies using materials such as clay, cotton fabric, plaster of Paris, and wax. They also may apply cosmetics to supply a natural appearance, dress the body, and place it in a casket. Funeral directors maintain records such as embalming reports and itemized lists of apparel or valuables consigned with the body. In large burial dwellings, an embalming employees of two or ...