SDFDA Annual Convention

The SDFDA Convention will be held May 8-10, 2024, in Sioux Falls at the Best Western Plus Ramkota. 

Tentative Convention Schedule

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 

2:00 pm - SD State Board of Funeral Service Board Meeting. 

Following State Board Meeting- SDFDA Board Meeting 

Dinner on our own at the Sioux Falls Best Western Plus Ramkota around 6:30 pm

Thursday, May 9, 2024 

7:30 - Registration opens

8:15- 9:15 - SDFDA Membership Meeting

9:15-10:00 - DOH Vital Records Update

10:00- 11:30 - “What your families may not tell you about your funeral home… But the 

hairdresser and your clergy would.” Wallace P. Hooker, CFSP MBIE

11:30-1:45 - Exhibit Hall Open & Lunch 

2:00- 3:00 - “Right of Disposition.” SDFDA Legal Counsel Michael Sharkey 

3:00-4:00 - “The Final Touch (How Not to Mess Up a Good Embalming) - How to Overcome a Poor Embalming.” Wallace P. Hooker, CFSP MBIE

4:00-5:30 - "Case Studies in the Dismal Trade." SDFDA Legal Counsel Michal Sharkey

5:30 -6:30 - Social Hour in Exhibit Hall 

6:30 - Dinner, Awards Presentation & Top Down Band

Friday, May 10, 2024 

8:00-9:00 – “NFDA news and Global Consumer Survey results”, Past President NFDA Jack Mitchell, Baltimore, MD

9:00- 10:00- “Building Resiliency”, Past President NFDA Jack Mitchell, Baltimore, MD

10:00-11:00 - OSHA, Mark Arnold