For Immediate Release: November 5, 2026

Brookfield, Wis. – Today, the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) announced that Christopher Costello, CFSP, 2025-27 at-large representative, resigned from the NFDA Board of Directors, effective October 28, 2026. Costello served on the Board since October 2025.

Costello was recently named managing partner of Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home in New Orleans, Louisiana. He made the decision to resign in order to focus on his commitments to this new role.

The Board of Directors accepted his resignation, thanked him for his service and wished him success in his next chapter.

The NFDA Board of Directors will review the vacancy and determine the appropriate next steps in accordance with the organization’s governance process.

NFDA is the world’s leading and largest funeral service association, serving 20,000 individual members who represent nearly 11,000 funeral homes in the United States and 49 countries around the world. NFDA is the trusted leader, beacon for ethics and the strongest advocate for the profession. NFDA is the association of choice because it offers funeral professionals comprehensive educational resources, tools to manage successful businesses, guidance to become pillars in their communities and the expertise to foster future generations of funeral professionals. NFDA is headquartered in Brookfield, Wis., and has an office in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.nfda.org.

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Media Contact: Jessica Koth, 262-814-1536, jkoth@nfda.org