(Editor's note: Translations from Spanish to English by Daniel Osorio of the ICCFA. Nota del editor:
traducciones de español al inglés de Daniel Osorio del ICCFA)
Shannon Asmus, Vertin Co., Breckinridge, Minnesota
It's been a wonderful experience. The educational opportunities have been great. Meeting the people has been wonderful, and the weather's been better than that.
Michael and Gretchen Barbee, Barbee Supplies San Diego, California
Michael: We're finding products to carry. We're a new distributor, so we're meeting with a bunch of manufacturers; we really think the cemetery and funeral industry is a positive new market to get into, and we're really excited about it. We're having a great time. We're meeting a lot of great people and we're finding a lot of great products to sell and we're having a great time. We love it. Gretchen: It's very informative and it's helped us through the process of learning the cemetery business as well as about mausoleums, columbariums.
Howard Cohen, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Sleepy Hollow, New York
I've been very impressed. I think this is the most professionally run conference I've ever been to, and I'm particularly impressed by the quality of the people here.
George Eastman, Eastman Funeral Home New London, Ohio
I've really enjoyed it. Good programming, good displays. I've enjoyed San Diego.
Patrick Eaton, City of Enumclaw Enumclaw, Washington
It's been very, very informational. We really like the displays; the displays are beautiful. The facility's incredible. I'm looking forward to the tour at Singing Hills Cemetery.
Bolor Erdenechimeg, New Mind Ulaambaatar, Mongolia
I'm very happy. I got to meet lots of nice people; I got very good ideas.
Ellen Gaffney, Gaffney Funeral Home Tacoma, Washington
I was pleasantly surprised. Sometimes programs aren't as broad-based in their approach. They're more East-coast oriented; we're West coast. We have a little different bent on funeral service out here, I think. So I was very pleased with it.
Oscar Hernandez, Camposanto Jardines de la Asuncion Guatemala City, Guatemala
Muy interesante. Los temas que esta tratando, nos estan ayudando para ir a innovar y tomar ideas para implementarlas en nuestro pais.
Very interesting. The themes that are treated are helping us to innovate and to take ideas for implementing in our country.
Ralph Klicker, Upstate New York Transplant Services Buffalo, New York
I like it. I've met a lot of nice people. The programs have been really good; I've gotten a lot of good information from them, and I like the casualness of it. It's a little more casual than some other conventions I've been to, so I think it's very nice.
Duke Meredith & Anne Meredith, Maresh-Meredith & Acklam Funeral Home, Racine, Wisconsin
Duke: I think that it should be held in San Diego every year. Anne: We've loved it. Everything's been fantastic. All the wonderful programs we've attended have been phenomenal. Duke: First-class hospitality, very gracious.
Jeffrey Musgrove, Westlawn Memorial Park & Funeral Home Eugene, Oregon
I'm really enjoying it. Lots of diverse speakers talking about important topics that have a lot of relevance to me.
Frank Nash Jr,. Roselawn Cemetery & Crematory, Pueblo, Colorado
I loved it. The most information I've probably gotten. I go to state conferences, but this was my first national. I got to meet very interesting people. Probably the resources we got here I can take to our state and spread that out to them. And we've contacted speakers here to come to our state conventions. It's just a great resource and I wish I was doing it every year.
Deanna Norton, Lyerly Funeral Home Salisbury, North Carolina
It's wonderful; I've really thoroughly enjoyed it. [The Expo Hall] was wonderful; I loved looking at all the new stuff. There are a lot of things I had no clue were out there, and I would like to take them home with me. [The sessions] have been very educational. That's why I'm in this, to keep learning. Besides helping families, our job is to keep learning, to keep updated with the new things going on in our profession.
Juan Carlos Ramos Villa, Grupo La Paz Colina, Mexico
Es la primera vez que acudo a la ICCFA y me parece muy bien y tengo ganas de volver, muy buenas las conferencias.
It's the first time that I've come to ICCFA and it appears very good and I am willing to come back, very good sessions.
Augosto Vargas Salguero, Imobilaria, La Paz, Bolivia
Me gusta mucho. Creo que estos tres días fueron una buena experiencia para mí.
I like it very much. I think these three days were a good experience for me.
James Savage, Bronze Memorials Inc. Port St. Lucie, Florida
It was excellent, very informative. Many nice people, lots of selections to choose from. Everything you'd want in a convention was here-first-class operation.
Joe Sehee, Green Burial Council Santa Fe, New Mexico
(At the Closing Dinner Dance) I'm enjoying the bread pudding immensely and I'm going to go do the Macarena right now. And I'm having insights into the cemetery and funeral industry that have been really incredible.
Amy Shimp, Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, Timonium, Maryland
Great! A wealth of information, and I'm just trying to absorb it-long days. I made a lot of great contacts and heard a lot of great seminars.
Daniel Skowronek, Entrepreneur, Parker, Colorado
It was great. It was interesting meeting all the exhibitors, and I found the seminars very enlightening.
Valerie Stodden Wonders Cemetery Chicago, Illinois
I'm learning a lot of things. I came with certain ideas in mind. Some of them have beem true and I'm learning a lot of things I didn't expect to learn.
Gail Valentine Taylor, Woods-Valentine Mortuary Pasadena, California
So far, very impressed. It seems to be very informative and to have a nice, wide array of resources and opportunities. I'm learning some things, and I'm happy about that, because I don't want to spend my time unless I can learn to better and grow my business.
Bart Torres, Memory Park Memorial Park and Mortuary, Brea, California
Memory Park Memorial Park and Mortuary, Brea, California This is great. We're a combination facility-mortuary, crematory, cemetery-so this has everything in one place that normally I'd have to go to two or three other functions to see. A colleague of mine said, "Oh, you ought to go to ICCFA." So I finally made it this year and I'm glad I did-very, very glad.
Jacob Wilbert, Grace Memorial Park Placquemine, Louisiana
It's absolutely fantastic. We have a lot of distributors here; I'm enjoying looking at everything. The city's beautiful, great restaurants-we're having a really good time. Great program so far, too.
Russell & Mary Williamson, Kingwood Memorial Park Lewis Center, Ohio
It was a really good time. We got to meet a lot of people we talk to all the time and a lot of new people, a lot of vendors. There were a lot of cool things to do.
Jean Wolf, Woodlands Cemetery Company Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
It's been very enlightening. I thought the speakers were excellent, and it's very helpful to me to see the products in true life, because some of them I've not dealt with and it gives me a sense of what I need and will possibly purchase for our cemetery.
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