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Nohava Elected as SDFDA President

May 15, 2015 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

Douglas G. Nohava, CFSP, CPC, of Minnehaha Funeral Home in Baltic, Colton, Dell Rapids, and Garretson, SD, was elected as President of the South Dakota Funeral Directors Association (SDFDA) at their annual state convention held on May 6-8 at the Best Western PLUS Ramkota Hotel in Sioux Falls, SD. This year’s convention marked the association’s 116th anniversary. Nohava was sworn into office by his father, Myron G. Nohava, a past-president of the SDFDA.

Nohava, a funeral director for 10 years, will serve on the Executive Board of the SDFDA as state president for the 2015-2016 association year. He graduated from the University of Minnesota’s Program of Mortuary Science in 2004. He has been employed with Minnehaha Funeral Home since 2005 and is licensed in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. Doug is also a Licensed Insurance Producer in South Dakota and Minnesota and currently represents United Heritage Life Insurance, a funeral insurance provider. In 2010, Doug received the Certified Funeral Service Practitioner (CFSP) designation from the Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice. To attain the CFSP designation, Doug completed 180 hours of academic, professional, and public education activities. In 2013, he became a Certified Preplanning Consultant (CPC) through the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA). Since 2012, he has also served on the NFDA Disaster Preparedness Resource Group and is also a Region 8 Team Member of the Department of Health and Human Service’s Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (D-MORT).

Doug is a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Garretson, and the Garretson Commercial Club. He is also a certified firefighter, Emergency Medical Technician, and fire service instructor with the Garretson Volunteer Fire Department and currently serves as the department’s 2^nd Assistant Chief. He and his wife, Karly Hegge, have two daughters, Kalyce and Amity.

The South Dakota Funeral Directors Association is a professional association that represents the funeral service professional and the funeral home establishments in the state. The Association provides education, legislative representation and public relations statewide.

Left to Right: Dist 3 President Michael Wight of Wight, Comes, Sogn Funeral Chapel, Watertown; Dist 4 President Jim Schriver of Schriver’s Memorial Mortuary, Aberdeen; President Doug Nohava; President-Elect Chad Osthus of Crawford-Osthus Funeral Chapel of Watertown; Vice-President Dan Krugman of Welter Funeral Home, Huron; and Immediate Past President George Bittner of Bittner Funeral Chapel, Mitchell.

For More Information Contact:
Tammy Kerr, Executive Director
SD Funeral Directors Association25654 431^st Ave.
Spencer, SD 57374-5800
Phone: (605) 246-9466
Email: tkerr@triotel.net

Nohava Elected as SDFDA President-Elect

June 2, 2014 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

Pictured are the new officers of the South Dakota Funeral Directors Association. L-R Chad Osthus CFSP, Watertown, SD ~ Vice-President; Ken Kirk, Rapid City, SD ~ Immediate Past President; George Bittner, Mitchell, SD ~ President; Robby Bates CFSP CCO, DeKalb, TX ~ NFDA President; Doug Nohava CFSP CPC, Garretson, SD ~ President-Elect; and Jim Jaeger CFSP, Wagner, SD ~ NFDA Policy Board Representative

Douglas G. Nohava, CFSP, CPC, of Minnehaha Funeral Home in Baltic, Colton, Dell Rapids, and Garretson, SD, was elected as President-Elect of the South Dakota Funeral Directors Association (SDFDA) at their annual state convention held on May 7-9 at The Lodge at Deadwood. This year’s convention marked the state association’s 115th anniversary.

Nohava, a funeral director for nine years, will serve on the Executive Board of the SDFDA for the 2014-2015 association year. He graduated from the University of Minnesota’s Program of Mortuary Science in 2004. He has been employed with Minnehaha Funeral Home since 2005 and is licensed in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. Doug is also a Licensed Insurance Producer in South Dakota and Minnesota and currently represents United Heritage Life Insurance, a funeral insurance provider. In 2010, Doug received the Certified Funeral Service Practitioner (CFSP) designation from the Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice. To attain the CFSP designation, Doug completed 180 hours of academic, professional, and public education activities. In 2013, he became a Certified Preplanning Consultant (CPC) through the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA). Since 2012, he has also served on the NFDA Disaster Preparedness Resource Group and is also a Region 8 Team Member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (D-MORT).

The South Dakota Funeral Directors Association is a professional association that represents the funeral home establishments and the funeral directors in the state. The Association provides education, legislative representation and public relations statewide.

Funeral Director Douglas Nohava Meets with Congressional Representatives

April 2, 2014 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

Funeral Director Douglas Nohava Meets with Congressional Representatives to Urge Support of Legislation Impacting Funeral Consumers

Photo Courtesy of Minneahaha Funeral Home
L-R: Nancy Kirk, Rep. Kristi Noem, Ken Kirk of Kirk Funeral Home-Rapid City, Doug Nohava

Garretson, SD ̶ Douglas G. Nohava, CFSP, CPC, of Minnehaha Funeral Homes in Baltic, Colton, Dell Rapids, and Garretson, recently spent time in Washington, D.C., attending the 2014 National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) Advocacy Summit. The Summit, which was held March 4-6, enabled NFDA members to meet face-to-face with members of Congress and discuss issues of critical importance to funeral service. By participating in this event, Nohava is taking a proactive approach in advancing legislation that helps protect funeral consumers and benefits the communities he serves.

During the 2014 NFDA Advocacy Summit, Nohava met with meet with Sen. John Thune, Sen. Tim Johnson, and Rep. Kristi Noem to discuss the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Funeral Rule, a federal consumer protection law. The Funeral Rule has been interpreted as only applying to funeral homes; NFDA members argued that the law should be updated to include all sellers of funeral services and merchandise, including cemeteries, crematories, internet sellers and retail stores.

When the Funeral Rule was first promulgated in 1984, the funeral home was the primary source of funeral goods and services for the funeral consumer. Today, funeral consumers have a much greater variety of funeral service and merchandise sellers to choose from, including cemeteries, crematories, internet sellers and retail stores. Consumers who purchase funeral goods and services from somewhere other than a funeral home are not afforded the protections of the Funeral Rule, putting them in a vulnerable position.

To address this situation, NFDA members, like Nohava, feel that Congress should pass legislation that would require the FTC to update the Funeral Rule to reflect the current for-profit marketplace options for consumers and afford them the same protections they have under the Funeral Rule when dealing with funeral homes.

“Our funeral home staff has an unwavering commitment to the families we serve and our profession,” said Nohava. “I was proud to have the opportunity to meet with our elected senators and representatives in Washington, D.C., to help them understand the importance of updating federal consumer protection regulations.”

About Minnehaha Funeral Home

Minnehaha Funeral Home was founded in 1928 and is a cooperative owned by hundreds of shareholders in our communities. Over the years the funeral home has expanded to four locations in Minnehaha County. Nohava has been a funeral director with Minnehaha Funeral Home since 2005, and is a licensed funeral director/embalmer in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. He is also a member of the US Department of Health and Human Service’s Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (D-MORT) which responds to mass fatality disasters across the country.

Nohava is also a certified firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician with the Garretson Fire Department, and Garretson Community Ambulance. He is a past Fire Chief and current Assistant Fire Chief of Garretson, and has been a South Dakota Certified Fire Instructor since 2007. Doug is married to Karly Hegge. They have two daughters, Kalyce and Amity.

About the National Funeral Directors Association

NFDA is the world’s leading and largest funeral service association, serving 19,700 individual members who represent more than 10,000 funeral homes in the United States and 39 countries around the world. NFDA is the trusted leader, beacon for ethics and the strongest advocate for the profession. NFDA is the association of choice because it offers funeral professionals comprehensive educational resources, tools to manage successful businesses, guidance to become pillars in their communities and the expertise to foster future generations of funeral professionals. NFDA is headquartered in Brookfield, Wis., and has an office in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.nfda.org.

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Nohava Elected as SDFDA Vice President

May 31, 2013 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

2013-14 SDFDA Officers L-R: Jim Jaeger CFSP, Wagner, SD ~ Policy Board Representative; Andrea Snoozy-Bahr, Groton, SD ~ Dist 4 President; Chad Osthus CFSP, Watertown, SD ~ Secretary/Treasurer; Pat Patton CFSP, Sauk Centre, MN ~ NFDA At-large Representative; Doug Nohava CFSP, Garretson, SD ~ Vice President; Mandy Luikens CFSP, Gettysburg, SD ~ Past President; Eric Weerts, Clark, SD ~ Dist 3 President; Ken Kirk, Rapid City, SD ~ President; Andy McCann, Canton, SD ~ Dist 1 President; and George Bittner, Mitchell, SD ~ Dist 2 President

Douglas Nohava, CFSP, of Minnehaha Funeral Home in Baltic, Colton, Dell Rapids, and Garretson, SD, was elected as Vice President of the South Dakota Funeral Directors Association (SDFDA) at their annual state convention held on May 8-10 at the Ramkota Hotel & Watertown Event Center in Watertown, SD. This year’s convention marked the state association’s 114th anniversary.

Nohava, a funeral director for eight years, will serve on the Executive Board of the SDFDA for the 2013-2014 association year. He graduated from the University of Minnesota’s Program of Mortuary Science in 2004. He has been employed with Minnehaha Funeral Home since 2005 and is licensed in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. Doug is also a Licensed Insurance Producer in South Dakota and Minnesota. He is currently representing United Heritage Life Insurance, a funeral insurance provider. In 2010, Doug received the Certified Funeral Service Practitioner (CFSP) designation from the Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice. To attain the CFSP designation, Doug completed 180 hours of academic, professional, and public education activities.

Doug is a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Garretson, and the Garretson Commercial Club. He is also a certified firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician with the Garretson Volunteer Fire Department and the Garretson Community Ambulance. He and his wife, Karly, have two daughters, Kalyce and Amity.

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Douglas Nohava to Serve on National Funeral Directors Association Disaster Preparedness Work Group

February 5, 2013 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

Brookfield, Wis.—Douglas Nohava, CFSP, of Minnehaha Funeral Home in Baltic, Colton, Dell Rapids, and Garretson, S.D., has committed to serve as a member of the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) Disaster Preparedness Group for 20122013. NFDA committee members have a significant impact on the association, its members, and the funeral service profession at-large.

“Doug was appointed to serve on the Disaster Preparedness Work Group because of his demonstrated commitment to advancing the goals of NFDA,” said NFDA Chief Executive Officer Christine Pepper, CAE. “The committee’s work in the coming year will help NFDA fulfill its mission of supporting funeral directors as they provide families with meaningful end-of-life services at the highest levels of excellence and integrity.”

Members of the NFDA Disaster Preparedness Work Group are charged with developing a disaster preparedness and response action plan that will guide and assist the association in mobilizing funeral service volunteers, suppliers, and other crucial resources in the event of a catastrophic incident. This task force may be called upon to provide expert input on federal actions, proposals, and policies dealing with mass-fatality management, disaster preparedness, and related issues affecting funeral service.

Nohava has been a funeral director with Minnehaha Funeral Home since 2005, and is a licensed funeral director/embalmer in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. He is also a certified firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician with the Garretson Fire Department, and Garretson Community Ambulance. He is a past Fire Chief of Garretson, and has been a South Dakota Certified Fire Instructor since 2007. In 2012, he became a member of the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (D-MORT). Doug is married to Karly Hegge. They have two daughters, Kalyce and Amity.

NFDA is the world’s leading and largest funeral service association, serving 19,700 individual members who represent more than 10,000 funeral homes in the United States and 39 countries around the world. NFDA is the trusted leader, beacon for ethics, and the strongest advocate for the profession. NFDA is the association of choice because it offers funeral professionals comprehensive education resources, tools to manage successful businesses, guidance to become pillars in their communities, and the expertise to foster future generations of funeral professionals. NFDA is headquartered in Brookfield, Wis., and has an office in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.nfda.org.
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Nohava Elected as SDFDA Secretary/Treasurer

May 31, 2012 by Matt Larson, Big Sioux Media

Douglas Nohava, of Minnehaha Funeral Home in Baltic, Colton, Dell Rapids, and Garretson, SD, was elected as Secretary/Treasurer of the South Dakota Funeral Directors Association (SDFDA) at their annual state convention held on May 9-11 at the Ramkota Hotel & Watertown Event Center in Watertown, SD. This year’s convention marked the state association’s 113th anniversary.

Nohava, a funeral director for seven years, will serve on the Executive Board of the SDFDA for the 2012-2013 association year. He graduated from the University of Minnesota’s Program of Mortuary Science in 2004. He has been employed with Minnehaha Funeral Home since 2005 and is licensed in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. Doug is also a Licensed Insurance Producer in South Dakota and Minnesota. He is currently representing United Heritage Life Insurance, a funeral insurance provider. In 2010, Doug received the Certified Funeral Service Practitioner (CFSP) designation from the Academy Of Professional Funeral Service Practice. To attain the CFSP designation, Doug completed 180 hours of academic, professional, and public education activities.

Doug is a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Garretson, and the Garretson Commercial Club. He is also a certified firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-B) with the Garretson Volunteer Fire Department and the Garretson Community Ambulance.