Willis Davis

• Coordinated body preparation and preservation.
• Reshaped or reconstructed disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton and wax.
• Prepared remains for services, viewings and cremations.

FDIC/Manager/Funeral Director/EIC/Embalmer

Goggans Funeral Home (Terrell, TX)

Peters Funeral Home (Greenville, TX

Quinlan Funeral Home (Quinlan, TX)

Responsibilities included, but we're not limited to…

• Regular safety and compliance inspections of facilities.
• Coordinate embalming, dressing, casketing, sanitizing human remains in care.
• Maintaining inventory, maintenance record and replacement of all merchandise, vehicles, chemicals, instruments and supplies for all 3 locations.
• Hired, developed and trained staff in all positions for all 3 locations.
• Maintained state, health and safety compliance; as well as inspections.
• Maintained personnel records; performed reviews and took disciplinary action of required. Oversaw work schedules, timesheets, payroll, expense accounts; invoices maintenance and suppliers contracts.

Lakeside Memorial Park, Quinlan.

• Selling, recording, collecting payment and record keeping of burial spaces.
• Maintaining records of burials for Lakeside Memorial Park. 2012-2016

Goggans Funeral Home, Terrell, TX

• Negotiated, maintained and executed the indigent contract for Kaufman County and Terrell State Hospital. 2012-2016

• Coordinated body preparation and preservation.
• Dressed bodies and placed in caskets.
• Conducted interviews to arrange for preparation of obituary notices, assisted with selection of caskets or urns and determined location and time of burials or cremations.

• Assisted with autopsies, reports and transport.
• Coordinated body preparation and preservation.
• Conformed to laws of health and sanitation and complied with legal requirements concerning embalming.
• Reshaped or reconstructed disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton and wax.
• Made removals and first calls at private residences and various facilities around metropolitan area.

• Arranged funeral/memorial services for grieving families to meet budget and memorialized instructions.
• Liaised between hospitals, physicians, county coroner, and members of clergy to coordinate final arrangements.
• Performed embalming procedures and updated case study reports.
• Communicated with insurance companies to secure death benefits for payment of services.
• Picked up deceased at private homes, hospitals and county morgues.

• Made first calls and removals at both residents and facilities in the metropolitan area.
• Prepared remains through embalming process.
• Assisted with autopsies, reports and transport.
• Reshaped or reconstructed disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton and wax.
• Coordinated body preparation and preservation.

• Supervise and manage 16 surveillance field agents over 6 state region.
• Investigate and process international life claims and repatriation of deceased Americans.
• Scheduled investigations.
• Handled quality control, expenses accounts and daily updates from all agents.
• Final review of reported actions in the field and customer liaison.

• Personal contact with physicians, hospitals and other medical facilities and providers; legal and law enforcement providers to gather information and make personal contact and determination of benefits.
• Reading and interpreting contracts.
• Arbitrating disputes contractors. Documenting and reporting decisions and actions.