Lissa Lovetere-Stone Elected Vice President of Connecticut Funeral Directors Association

Lissa Lovetere-Stone, CCO, has been elected Vice President of the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association (CFDA). Lovetere-Stone most recently was the association’s 2025 Treasurer, and has served on its Executive Committee for the past three years. She was elected as 2026 Vice President at the CFDA’s Annual Meeting and Convention in December.

Lovetere-Stone is a licensed funeral director/embalmer and the President of Munson-Lovetere Funeral Homes, Inc. with locations in both Woodbury and Southbury. The niece of the late Joseph P. Lovetere, she is the third generation of Lovetere’s to work in her family’s funeral homes. In 2017, Lovetere-Stone and her husband, Mark D. Stone, opened Stone Family Cremation Services & Pet Passages in Southbury, the only crematory in Connecticut that handles both human and pet members of the family.

Lovetere-Stone became a licensed funeral director/embalmer in 1990 after receiving her professional schooling from New England Institute of Applied Funeral Arts and Sciences, in the last class to graduate from its Kenmore Square campus in Boston, Mass. She also attended Boston University and holds a Bachelor’s degree from Mount Ida College in Newton, Mass. Her CCO designation indicates that she completed the National Funeral Directors Association’s Certified Crematory Operator program, and she has completed many other programs and certificates throughout her career.

Lovetere-Stone is a lifelong resident of the Woodbury-Southbury area, and is a graduate of Holy Cross High School in Waterbury, Conn. She is active in the local business community, serving on many boards and committees. She lives in Bethlehem, Conn., with her husband, Mark D. Stone. They have two adult children and enjoy spending time in Florida with their pugs.

The Connecticut Funeral Directors Association’s 2026 Officers and Executive Committee are:

• President, Jonathan L. Green, CFSP, CPC, CCSP, Abraham L. Green & Son Funeral Home in Fairfield;
• Vice President, Lissa Lovetere-Stone, CCO, Munson-Lovetere Funeral Homes, Inc. in Southbury and Woodbury;
• Treasurer: Michael J. Introvigne, Introvigne Funeral Home in Stafford Springs;
• Secretary: Jessica J. Mercuri, Ahern Funeral Homes in Hartford and Unionville; and
• Immediate Past President: Melissa Melin-Miles, Alderson-Ford Funeral Homes, Inc. and the Buckmiller Ford Mengacci Funeral Home in Cheshire, Naugatuck, and Waterbury.

Executive Committee Members:

• Jonathan Erickson, Beecher & Bennett, Inc. in Hamden and Meriden;
• Patrick L. Ferry, John J. Ferry & Sons, Inc. in Meriden;
• Emily A. Randolph, CFSP, CPC, CCO, East Windsor Community Funeral Home, and Nutmeg Trade Services, LLC,
• Jonathan E. Jones, CFSP, Howard K. Hill Funeral Services in New Haven, Hartford, and Bloomfield;
• Brendan McKeon, CFSP, CCO, Spear-Miller Funeral Home in Fairfield; and
• (Alternate) Denise Verner, CFSP, CCO, Duksa Family Funeral Homes in Newington and New Britain.

The 137-year-old Connecticut Funeral Directors Association is comprised of funeral directors at more than 220 funeral homes. Based in Wethersfield, Conn., the professional organization is committed to the promotion and advocacy of high ethical standards in funeral service. This includes the development and presentation of ongoing professional training opportunities for practitioners and educational programs for association members and the public. For more information about the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association or its holiday collection drive, call 860-721-0234 or 800-919-2332 or visit www.ctfda.org