FUNERAL DIRECTORS HONORED

The Connecticut Society of Association Executives presented its Community Service Award to the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association for spearheading an innovative partnership with the Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs and the Missing in America Project that established the nation’s first protocol to identify unclaimed cremated remains of U.S. veterans in funeral homes and then provide them with military burials. Pictured at the Nov. 9 event are, from left, Lisa Steimer, president of CSAE and senior staff associate for professional development for the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education; Lorna Bolduc, executive director of CSAE; Shauna K. Molloy, president of the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association and vice president of Molloy Funeral Home in West Hartford; John Cascio, executive director of the funeral directors association; and Paul F. Barry, director of burial & memorial services for the state Department of Veterans Affairs.