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Jeff Kress
Licensed Funeral Director

Jeff has lived in West Central Minnesota since 1972. He graduated from Wheaton High School in 1973.Jeff has been engaged in funeral service since 1983 when he began working for the Ranney Funeral Home.

In the Fall of 1986 he graduated from Worsham College of Mortuary Science in Des Plaines, Illinois where he received the Magna Sum Laude Award for educational excellence. Jeff obtained his Mortuary Science license from the State of Minnesota shortly thereafter. He has worked at Ranney Funeral Home in Wheaton, Pedersen Funeral Home in Morris and Olson Funeral Home in Fergus Falls before joining the Faith and Hope Funeral Home.

Jeff has served the Minnesota Funeral Directors Association as a District President and on the MFDA Board of Directors as a District Director as well as on numerous committees.

Jeff and his wife, Lori, have been married since 1977 and have two children, Lesley and her husband Chad Braaten of Fargo, North Dakota and Grant who is attending MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas.

It would be a great honor to serve you in your time of need.

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