Daleville, VA— David C. Williams is being recognized by
Continental Who’s Who as a Distinguished Business Professional for his
contributions to the Funeral Service Practice.
Mr. Williams is a certificated Funeral Service Director
through the National Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards and the
Academy of Funeral Service practice. He became a certified grief counselor for
infant and stillbirth deaths, and a licensed funeral director and embalmer in
the state of Ohio. He is also a licensed funeral service provider in the state
of Virginia.
Mr. Williams is managing partner of Rader Funeral Home in
Daleville Virginia. The company specializes in providing funeral home, burial,
and cremation services throughout Botetourt County, including pre-planning and
immediate services. According to Mr. Williams, he and his team of compassionate
experts focus on helping clients and their loved ones create lasting memories
in a comforting and inviting space.
According to Mr. Williams, Rader Funeral Home was
established more than 120 years ago, and is recognized as the oldest business
of its kind in the entire county. The company opened a second location in
Stewartville, Virginia, which was in operation until 1950, followed by another
location in Buchanan, Virginia until 2001. The Radar Funeral Home now exists in
just one location in Daleville since 1996.
Mr. Williams is considered an expert in grief counseling,
with a focus on pregnancy loss, stillbirth and newborn deaths. He has also been
an active mortuary officer for the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team
of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Region V, for
approximately two decades.
Mr. Williams notes that his success to his empathetic nature
towards his employees and his many client families. He notes that he worked for
a local cemetery while he was in high school, where he performed various types
of labor, including cutting the grass and digging and filling graves by hand.
He earned a degree from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science in 1986.
Mr. Williams would like to dedicate this honor to his
parents, David and Charlene Williams Jr.
