BOARD MEMBERS

Larkin Mortuary

260 East South Temple

Salt Lake City, UT  84111

Travis Greenwood was born and raised in Lehi, UT. He obtained his Mortuary of Science degree from Mt. Hood College in Oregon and became a licensed funeral director in 1995.

Travis is in his twentieth year of being the General Manager for Larkin Mortuary. His dedication in providing genuine care and his years of experience make him a valuable resource to the families he serves. His commitment to treat everyone with dignity and professionalism is respected and emulated by his coworkers.

Travis and his wife, Jackie currently reside in Lehi, UT. He enjoys outdoor activities and spending time with his family. He has served on the Funeral Directors Licensing Board for the past four years. He is involved with and volunteering at many community events.

He is looking forward to serving with the Utah Funeral Directors Association.

Memorial Mortuaries & Cemeteries

3115 E. 7800 S.

Cottonwood Heights, UT  84121

Brian R. Bartlett is the manager of Memorial Mountain View Mortuary and Memorial Lake Hills Mortuary. He has worked with Memorial for 17 years.

He grew up in the Sandy/Draper area and attended Alta High school, graduating in 1995 and attending an LDS mission to San Bernardino, California. While on his mission in California, Brian met a Funeral Director who gave him and his companion a tour of a mortuary, Brian was fascinated and decided that this was the career path he wanted to follow.

When Brian arrived home, he attended Salt Lake Community College and received an Associate’s degree. Following that, he attended Arapahoe Community College. He received his Associate of Applied Science in Mortuary Science degree in 2005. While in Colorado, he met his beautiful Wife Julia, and are the proud parents of four wonderful children (two boys and two girls). Brian currently resides in Eagle Mountain and loves playing golf, watching sports, especially University of Utah football and the Utah Jazz, spending time with his family and being a funeral director.

Larkin Mortuary

260 East South Temple

Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Tyler Morrison, CCO, was born in Nampa, ID in 1990 and was raised in Moses Lake, WA. After serving an LDS mission in Riverside, CA, Tyler decided to follow in his father’s footsteps by beginning his studies in funeral science in 2013. He received his mortuary science degree from the Commonwealth Institute of Funeral Service and became a licensed Funeral Director in 2016. He has always been drawn to the technical aspect of funeral service. Tyler’s passion for serving families has come from embalming, cosmetics, and restorative art. His current position is with Larkin Mortuary as the Care Center Manager.

Tyler and his wife Melissa have three adorable children and are currently residing in Woods Cross, UT. Besides being a dedicated and loving father, Tyler is also a serial hobbyist and enjoys a variety of sports and recreational activities. Among the most consistent are hockey, golf, photography, bargain shopping, and running a small custom laser engraving shop in his spare time.

Russon Mortuary

295 N. Main

Bountiful, UT  84010

Tyler was born and raised in Bountiful Utah. He attended Bountiful High School where he graduated in 1995. After High School, he served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Lansing Michigan. After his mission, he met and married Anne Vandegrift. They have 4 children and live in Centerville, Utah. Tyler has worked at Russon Mortuary and Crematory Mortuary since 1997 and has been licensed since 2004.

Anderson & Sons Mortuary

49 East 100 North

American Fork, UT  84003

I am a fifth generation funeral director pleased to follow in the footsteps of my grandfather, father, and recently my brother, in serving on the UFDA leadership team.

A little about me, I grew up in American Fork and graduated from American Fork High School. At the age of 12, I began working odd jobs for the mortuary. That later led to getting a job with the American Fork City Cemetery, where I worked for four years while attending high school. This is where I learned and gained great appreciation for all of the hard work that goes into providing exceptional service to families in their time of need.

I later went on to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Warsaw Poland Mission. Upon completing my mission, I received my bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Utah and went on to get an MBA/HCM from the University of Phoenix. I worked in healthcare for 17 years, where I managed the non-medical personnel for hospitals.

I returned home to help my family with the business in 2015 and received my Mortuary Science degree from Commonwealth Institute of Funeral Services. I have been working in the profession for a combined 12 years -- 4 years as a licensed funeral director.

I am married to Megan and have four children, Tessa, Ezra, Nash, and Zola. I live in Lehi and enjoy all of the outdoor activities Utah has to offer; however, I am particularly fond of playing volleyball.

Wasatch Lawn Mortuary

3401 S Highland Drive

Salt Lake City, UT 84106

Justin Welker was born in Soda Springs, Idaho and moved to Twin Falls at a young age. Justin learned about the funeral industry through an activity with the Boy Scouts. Since then, Justin cannot remember a time where he did not want to be a funeral director. He has worked in the funeral industry for seventeen years in various positions. He has worked in Twin Falls, Idaho at Reynolds Funeral Chapel and White Mortuary; Nampa, Idaho at Alsip and Persons Funeral Chapel; and here in Salt Lake at Wasatch Lawn Mortuary and Valley View Funeral Home. 

Justin attended and graduated in 2016 from Salt Lake Community College Mortuary Science Program and made some lifelong friends.  While in the program, Justin was class President. Justin has always been someone who wants to learn and to know.  He is always wanting to be apart of anything he can learn new things. Since graduation, he has continued to serve on the Program Advisory Committee for the college and been the PAC chair for the last two years. He was selected by National Funeral Directors Association to be one of fifty individuals to be part of the 2019 Meet the Mentors Program, in Atlanta, Georgia. It was an amazing experience to learn best practices of other funeral directors from other parts of the country and to be with other funeral directors who are excited about what the future of funeral service has to hold. He was also recognized in 2019 by Utah Funeral Directors Association with the Rookie Recognition Award.   Following in the path of constant learning, Justin worked towards and was awarded his Certified Funeral Service Practioner Designation in 2019. 

Justin is certainly passionate about serving families and bringing new ideas and options to the table. He is excited to be a part of the funeral industry at such a crucial time. It really is a time of great change and excitement. Now is the time where we will have to evolve and change faster than ever, to continue and remain relevant to the families in our community.

Justin is humbled daily by the opportunity to honor and celebrate lives lived by those in his community and around the world; and is excited to help others here in Utah have that same opportunity. 

Walker Mortuary

187 S. Main St.

Spanish Fork, UT  84660

Frank Lillywhite grew up in Laketown, Utah, a small community near Bear Lake. Living in a remote and beautiful part of Utah gave him a great love of the outdoors. He is the seventh of 10 children and enjoys going back to Bear Lake with his family to visit his dad who still resides there. Frank graduated from Rich High School in 1998 and served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ to Tampa, Florida shortly thereafter. After his return from Florida he began studying accounting at UVSC in Orem where he met his wife Amy Walker. Amy is the oldest daughter of Allyn and Marsha Walker and she has warm memories of growing up in the Payson and Spanish Fork mortuaries. Amy provided Frank’s introduction into the funeral home, but it wasn’t until four years after their marriage that Frank decided to officially pursue a career in the family business. This decision required that he and his young family move out of state to study at a college that offered a mortuary science program. They moved to Santa Ana, California where he worked at Brown Colonial Mortuary while attending school in Cypress. Frank graduated with a degree in Mortuary Science in 2007, receiving the Elizabeth Green Award for Excellence in Restorative arts.  He then returned to work for Walker Funeral Home in 2008. Since that time Frank has served on various community and industry boards including the Spanish Fork/Salem Area Chamber of Commerce and previously with the Utah Funeral Directors association. Frank and Amy have five children. Family and outdoor activities such as snowmobiling and camping occupy the better part of his free time.

Even though he never would have imagined that working in a funeral home would be part of his life, Frank truly feels that it is exactly what he should be doing. Growing up in a large family, he experienced the loss of two of his brothers who died at three and 21 years of age. Frank could clearly see the impact this had on his family, and he tries to remember this as he meets with families who have experienced a death. Frank feels the Utah Funeral Directors Association plays a key role in educating funeral professionals and raising the standard of care given to families.

Allen-Hall Mortuary

34 E. Center St.

Logan, UT  84321

Jase Allen grew up in the funeral industry following in the footsteps of his father Jason,    Uncle Jeff and grandfather Jim. He started mowing lawns and washing hearses at Allen-Hall Mortuary in Logan, Utah when he was in high school. During college, he assisted with    viewings and funerals.

After graduating in Finance and Economics from Utah State University, he attended the University of Nebraska School of Law and is also an attorney specializing in wrongful death litigation.  He takes pride in helping families through the legal challenges of losing a loved one due to the negligent acts of others. He has helped many families throughout the entire state of Utah.  After law school, Jase attended the Commonwealth Institute of Funeral Service and completed a funeral  apprenticeship under his father Jason.

As a third generation licensed funeral director and embalmer, he has come to appreciate what an honor it is to serve the families of Cache Valley. He has enjoyed helping the family business grow to six locations under  multiple brands and is grateful to the amazing team who have made their business successful.  Jase and his wife Dayna have five children and live in Providence, Utah.

Nickle Mortuary

190 S. Center St.

Delta, UT  84624

Jackie Kay Nickle started out doing home health care and decided that she wanted to do more by becoming a funeral director and helping families in their time of grief. Jackie is a 2009 graduate of Arapahoe Community College and began a career at Nickle Mortuary.

Throughout the years, Jackie has enjoyed working with various families. She has built good, long-standing relationships with them as well.

Jackie is very committed to the funeral service industry and will continue to strive to do her best in all aspects of it.

Jackie loves to draw in her spare time, even going as far as illustrating a book. She loves giving gifts to people and just having fun. Jackie is looking forward to serving on the board of the Utah Funeral Directors Association and is grateful for the opportunity.

Wasatch Lawn Mortuary

3401 S Highland Drive

Salt Lake City, UT. 84106

David G. White has been in the mortuary profession since 1995, assisting families in all phases of the funeral process. He earned an associate degree in mortuary science from Cypress College in California in 1997. In 2007, he completed OSHA training and began providing safety and health training for various mortuaries in Utah, California and Arizona. In 2008, he was named a Certified Funeral Service Practitioner by the Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice and earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Utah.

A funeral director with Dignity Memorial since 2019, Mr. White is a licensed funeral director and embalmer and was a certified crematory operator through Cremation Association of North America. He has served as a manager at multiple locations and as a director of personnel improvement, each position providing new opportunities for teaching and coaching fellow coworkers.

Mr. White has served on the Corporate Safety Committee of Security National Financial Corporation, the Mortuary Science Program Advisory Committee for Salt Lake Community College, and on the Friends board of the Salt Lake Children's Justice Center. He also served as a District 1 representative, Education/Best Practices Committee member and Convention Planning Committee member for the Utah Funeral Directors Association.

Holding the highest rank in Boy Scouts of America, Mr. White was recognized by the Los Angeles Area Council as Eagle Scout of the Year in 1988. He enjoys the outdoors and especially spending time with his wife and 5 children.

Lindquist Mortuary

3408 Washington Blvd.

Ogden, UT  84404

Laurie May Abraham, CFSP, CCO, is a native to the Brigham City area. Laurie graduated from Box Elder High School and Dixie State College. She received her Mortuary Science degree from Cypress College in Southern California. She became a licensed funeral director in the State of Utah in 2007, and began working with Myers Mortuaries that same year. Laurie is a member of the Brigham City Rotary Club where she has been awarded the Paul Harris Fellow Award from them. Laurie is honored to be able to lend a helping hand to families going through one of the hardest times of their lives.

UFDA MAILING ADDRESS

Mailing:  P.O. Box 95576

South Jordan, UT 84095-0576

Office:  9075 S 1300 E, Ste 104

Sandy, UT 84094

Melanie was born in Midland, Michigan and moved to Bountiful, Utah when she was eight. She attended Brigham Young University and studied nursing. A few years later she was set up on a blind date with Brian Braathen, an accountant, who lived in Washington. They married and she moved to the Seattle area for the next 29 years.  A couple of years after they married, Brian changed professions and became a funeral director. He is currently a Market Manager in the Salt Lake Area.

Previous to becoming the UFDA office manager, Melanie  spent ten years working at a large combo firm, Evergreen-Washelli Funeral Home and Cemetery located in Seattle. She is called mom by three incredible kids and grandma to five grandsons and one granddaughter.

Melanie is thrilled to be back in Salt Lake and excited to bring her organizational skills and death care knowledge to the Utah Funeral Directors Association.