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[[image - black & white photograph of Catherine Payne]]
[[caption]] CATHERINE A. PAYNE [[/caption]]

[[image - black & white photograph of Clarence Lightner]]
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CLARENCE E. LIGHTNER
President, National Funeral Directors & Morticians Association
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NATIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND MORTICIANS ASSOCIATION

1st Vice President ..........Catherine A. Payne, N.Y.
2nd Vice President ......Leon Harrison, Los Angeles, Cal.
Executive Secretary .......Robert H. Miller, Chicago, Ill.
Assistant Secretary ......Lacy Kennedy, Marianna, Ark.
Chaplain .........James Pilgrim, Henderson, North Carolina
Sergeant at Arms ........Terrell C. Chapman, Mt. Vernon, N.Y.
Ass't Sergeant at Arms ......Robert J. Stevens, W. Palm Beach, Florida
Treasurer ..........M. K. Fritz, Detroit, Michigan
Financial Chairman ..........William H. Jefferson, Vicksburg, Miss.
Chairman of Board ..........Bobbie Francois, New Orleans, La.
Secy of Board .......Willie J. Brouton, of Florida
Chairman of Exec. Comm. ......Carnie P. Bragg, Sr., Paterson, N.J.
Lay Member of Exec. Comm. ......J.C. Scarborough, Ill, Durham, N. Car.
Lay Member of Exec. Comm. ......Fulton E. Culkin, St. Louis, Missouri

casket manufacturers, Clergymen, Civic, State and Federal Representatives. Members are serving on various State Boards of Examiners, and we are represented by one President of a State Examiners. 

While we read history, we are making history. While we are pleased to have people recall our past, we are concerned with people knowing what we are doing today while we are making history. 

The objects and purposes of this National Association are: To maintain a membership of licensed morticians, Funeral Directors and Embalmers in the United States, its territories and dependencies; to cultivate and promote the art and science of funeral directing and embalming; to elevate and sustain the professional character and education of funeral directors and embalmers; to promote and further ethical practices; to encourage mutual improvement, social intercourse and good will: to enlighten public opinion in relation to funeral service and to the necessity and desirability of enacting and enforcing proper, just and uniform laws pertaining to funeral directing and embalming in the several states and territories; to hold conventions to assist its members in their problems, local, district and state, to encourage buying from merchants and representatives of commodities that will advance business; to enact rules and regulations for its members which will improve the profession of funeral directing and embalming, aid its members and promote the association; to establish and supervise local, district and state associations; to acquire property for purposes for which this corporation was organized, by purchase, deed, gift, devise, bequest or otherwise, and to hold and administer the same; to publish reports, treaties, and collectively, to represent and safeguard the common interests of its members and to foster among them high professional ideals of public service.

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