ABOUT US: Board of Directors
Elizabeth Cocke, a native of Maryland, is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College and the recipient of a doctorate degree in housing and urban studies from the University of Canberra, in Australia. She is currently a national program director of a consumer-based program at the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); hence her interest in FCAME for its focus on consumer protection and education.
Nancy J. Herin is a former medical librarian, who began her second career as a consumer activist with the Gray Panthers of Montgomery County, Md. in its fight for healthcare reform. She joined FCAME in 1999 and has been an active member since 2000.
Heather Janules is Assistant Minister for pastoral care at the Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church in Bethesda, Md. As such, she provides pastoral care services for members of her congregation; hence her interest in FCAME for its focus on end-of-life issues.
Earl Kragnes, a Memorial Society and FCAME member for over 30 years, is a retired manager of the Interreligious Liaison Office of the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP).
Sara L. Lavilla, whose background is in math and science, has competently, faithfully, and conscientiously overseen FCAME's finances since 2000.
Lauri Cebula-Seaboch and Pearl Van Natta are FCAME’s representatives to the monthly meetings of the Md. Board of Morticians in Baltimore. Lauri is a graduate of Towson University and has worked for over a decade with the developmentally disabled. Pearl, a longtime FCAME member, earned an M.A. in mathematical statistics and worked for many years as a research associate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.
Marilynn Smith is a retired sociology professor, who, for 15 years, taught a course on “death and dying.” She has been a longtime member of the Memorial Society of Suburban Md., the forerunner of FCAME.