Lacyn Barton, Montezuma-Cortez High School graduate and president of Woody Funeral Home and Cremation Service and Nelsen Funeral Home & Crematory in the greater Richmond, Virginia, area, has been appointed by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to the state Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers.
Barton has been president of Woody and Nelsen Funeral Homes since 2019, and is Woody Funeral Home’s first female president since the funeral home was established in 1905.