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Special
Announcements
(1)
FDSA announces the May 2010 General Membership Meeting &
Dinner and continuing education seminar "How
can a cup of coffee get you a new outlook: from Creating and
Continuing Traditions to Learning about the New Cemetery Oversight
Act?" Click
here for a registration form.
(2)
FDSA announces the April 2010 continuing education seminars
"Collections - How to go about collections - legally;
Illinois Law and the process" and "Liability exposures
facing the funeral industry in the 21st century . . . Are
you covered?". Click
here for a seminar registration form.
(3) Spend
an evening with your colleagues and the Chicago White Sox on
August 12, 2010. Click
here for an order form for game tickets.
(4)
FDSA is
pleased to offer music licensing as a benefit to our members through
our partnership in the Music License Coalition. FDSA members can
become fully licensed with ASCAP, BMI and SESAC for 2010 for the
annual price of $248 per location. Click
here for a copy of the application.
(5)
Click here to
obtain an order form for the new 2010 FDSA Reference Guide and Diary.
(6)
Effective August 14, 2009, the Cook County Clerk's office will
assume the City of Chicago death certificate filing duties.
Please click to see the announcement
of this issue and a map
of Cook County filing locations.
(7)
The new EDRS Certificate of Death for
the state of Illinois is now available on the FDSA website in the
Members Only section. Members of the association can access
it by clicking
here.
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Welcome to the website for
Funeral Directors Services Association
of Greater Chicago (FDSA). The following information is
offered for your convenience. For further information, please
contact the association.
The
FDSA
was founded in 1880. In 1962 it merged with an association of auto
livery chauffeurs and took on its present name.
The four
categories of membership are:
Regular
Membership: Includes entities which are funeral homes or
those providing funeral service. Membership
Application
Associate
Membership: Includes entities providing merchandise and/or
services to Regular Members. Membership
Application
Past Membership:
Includes persons who have retired from funeral service. Please
contact the association for further information.
Honorary
Membership: Includes persons who have been honored for
their outstanding past service to the association. Please
contact the association for further information.
FDSA
is governed by a nine member Board of Directors consisting of an
Executive Committee (President, Executive Vice-President, 2
Vice-Presidents, and Secretary-Treasurer) and 4 Directors. The chief
administrative officer of the association is the Executive Director,
who is directly responsible to the Board of Directors. The Board of
Directors meets in January, March, April, June, July, September,
October and December. The Executive Committee meets in February,
May, September and November. For a listing
of the 2010 FDSA Board of Directors,
click here.
You may see the association's Constitution
and Bylaws by clicking here.
FDSA's mission
is to provide services to
its membership and to the public at large, to enhance the
professionalism of funeral service and to maintain high ideals.
The FDSA
provides a number of services for its membership. Click
here for more information on those services.
The FDSA
Newsletter is published monthly and the
FDSA Reference Guide and Diary, a compilation of
membership, cemeteries, hospitals, churches, registrars, laws and
rules is published every year. A Subscription Service to the
Newsletter is available to non-members and the Reference Guide and
Diary can be purchased by anyone. Click
here for a subscription form to the Newsletter. All
FDSA members receive a copy of the Reference Guide as a benefit of
membership. For
access to the Members Only
part of the FDSA website, click here. |
