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2025 VCA Annual Meeting

  • 06/12/2025
  • 06/14/2025
  • The Virginian Hotel, Lynchburg, VA

Registration

(depends on selected options)

Base fee:
  • Fee includes President’s Reception, Continental Breakfast on Friday & Saturday, Lunch on Friday & Saturday, Breaks, and Awards Banquet (excluding guest tickets; available separately). Does NOT include Compliance Training; please register separately for that event if needed.
  • Fee includes President’s Reception, Continental Breakfast on Friday & Saturday, Lunch on Friday & Saturday, Breaks, and Awards Banquet (guests ticketed separately for any meals). Does NOT include Compliance Training.
  • Fee includes President’s Reception, Continental Breakfast on Friday & Saturday, Lunch on Friday & Saturday, Breaks, and Awards Banquet (not including guest registrations for meals - ticketed separately). Does NOT include Compliance Training.
    Additional members from the same company receive a discounted rate of $250 to attend.
Register

VIRGINIA CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING

“Cemeteries Reimagined: Cultivating a Welcoming Atmosphere to Shatter Stigmas and Inspire Celebrations”

The Virginian Hotel, Lynchburg, VA

June 12-14, 2025

*Hotel Group Rate of only $149 plus taxes and fees per night.

DON'T WAIT! ROOM BLOCK CLOSES MAY 14th at 4:00pm or until sold out.
 RESERVE HERE. 

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION OPEN THROUGH MAY 15

Annual Meeting Schedule

Thursday

June 12, 2025

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm  

Registration and Vendor Set up

6:00 pm -8:00 pm  

President’s Reception

Friday

June 13, 2025

8:00 am – 8:30 am  

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00am – 2:00 pm

Exhibits in Exhibit Hall

8:30 am – 8:45 am  

Welcome

Tony Peterson, VCA President

8:45 am – 9:15 am

VCA Annual Membership Meeting

9:15 am – 10:15 am

Amber Caron, Director of Communications, Wreaths Across America

10:15 am – 10:45am

Break with Suppliers

10:45 am – 11:30 am

John Bolton, “My Cemetery: Simple Burial Ground or Multi-faceted Community Asset?”  

11:30 am – 12:15 pm

Shaun Spencer-Hester, Executive Director and Curator, The Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum

12:15 pm-1:00 pm

Lunch Buffet

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Jamie Pettinato, Technical Sales, STIHL

1:45 pm- 2:00 pm

John Bolton, ICCFA Report

2:00 pm – 2:15 pm

Wally Frankland, Veteran’s Update

3:00pm- TBD

Hold for Presbyterian Cemetery Field Trip

Saturday

June 14, 2025

8:00 am – 8:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 am-2:00 pm

Exhibits in Exhibit Hall

8:30 am -8:35 pm    

Welcome

Daun Frankland, 2nd Vice President, VCA

8:35 am-12:35pm    

Mike Doherty, Cemetery Training for the Compliance Agent

9:00 am – 9:45 am  

 

Jay Brooks, "From Solemn to Celebratory: The Cemetery as a Space for the Living"

9:45 am -10:15 am

Break with Exhibitors

10:15 am - 11:00 am

Dr. Rev Joe Cobb, Mayor of Roanoke

“Honoring Their Breaths: When the Bones of our Ancestors Breathe Forth Reparation and Justice”

11:00 am – 11:10 am

Quick Break

11:10 am -11:20 am

Legislative Report; Jimmy Stuart

11:20 am – 11:30 am

VFDA Report;
VFDA President-Elect, Gregg Faulkner

11:30 am -11:40 am

SCCFA Report; SCCFA President Jodie Dupree

11:40 am-12:00 pm

DPOR Update; Anika Coleman, Board Member

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunch Buffet

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm  

Alan Creedy, “How to Win Back Lost Customers”

2:00 pm         

Family Time “Enjoy the Day”

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Reception

6:00 pm – 8:30 pm  

President Awards Reception and Banquet

Keynote Address: Mary Pope Maybank Hutson President, Sweet Briar College

 Officer/Board Installations: Jodie Dupree, SCCFA

REGISTER TODAY FOR EARLY BIRD DISCOUNTED RATE!

Please join us in thanking our Conference supporters! 

Reception Sponsors:

   

Trinity Memorial Gardens

Platinum Sponsor:



Gold Sponsors:

       

    

Silver Sponsor:

       

    Coldspring


Bronze-Coffee/Snack Break Sponsors:


     


Compliance Training Sponsor:


Columbia Gardens Cemetery


Friends of VCA: 



Sponsors/Exhibitors Information & Registration

Terms and Conditions

By registering for this Virginia Cemetery Association event or program you consent to being photographed, filmed and/or otherwise recorded at the event or program. By doing so, you grant to the Association rights to the release, publication or reproduction of any recorded media taken at the event or program of your appearance, voice or name for use by the Association and its management team.             

UPCOMING EVENTS

Become a member

Membership with the VCA provides your company with many valuable benefits. We host educational and networking events each year with a large discount provided for our members. Supplier Members have the opportunity for advertising and sponsorships to promote their business.
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