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Meet Our Team

Sean Rood Dan Adams Taylor Ivie
FUNERAL DIRECTOR FUNERAL DIRECTOR FUNERAL DIRECTOR

Sean is from Coos Bay, Oregon. There Dan started his funeral service career Taylor was born and raised in Mack-
he raised beef cattle on the family in 2014 at a funeral home in Texas. He ay, Idaho and graduated from Mackay
farm. His first exposure to the funeral graduated with his degree in Mortuary High School before pursuing a degree
profession was in high school, where Science from the Dallas Institute of in Business from Idaho State Univer-
his early morning religious seminary Funeral Service and served the fami- sity. While in school she began her
class met inside a funeral home. After lies of North Texas for six years before career in funeral service working at a
graduating high school Sean was hired moving to Idaho to be closer to his funeral home in 2016.
on as funeral assistant. children and grandchildren.
Taylor earned her degree in Mortuary
Sean served a Spanish-speaking mis- Dan enjoyed a nineteen-year career in Science from Des Moines Area Com-
sion for The Church of Jesus Christ of wireless telecom before coming to fu- munity College in 2020. Taylor feels
Latter-day Saints in Maryland. After re- neral service. Dan’s grandfather owned honored to serve families and their
turning from his mission, Sean attend- a funeral home in Arizona where he loved ones in their time of need and
ed BYU-Idaho where he met his wife would spend the summers of his youth looks forward to the opportunity to
Jocelyn. After graduating, they moved “helping”. Seeing how his grandfather serve her community.
to Provo where Sean worked for a local cared for his community and served
funeral home while attending mortuary each family with compassion planted In her free time, Taylor enjoys travel-
school. Sean graduated with a degree the seeds that would eventually lead ing, playing the piano, reading, and
in Mortuary Science and Funeral Ser- Dan to funeral service. spending time with her family.
vice from Des Moines Area Community
College in October 2016. Dan and his wife Dee are blessed with
two children and three grandchildren all
Sean and Jocelyn are proud parents of of whom live in Pocatello. Family gath-
their son. In his spare time, Sean enjoys erings and spoiling grandkids are Dan’s
spending time with his family hiking, favorite pastimes, but he also enjoys
camping, reading, playing board games woodworking, fishing, hunting and just
and watching movies and TV shows. Sean being “in the woods”. Dan looks forward
is excited to be working for Wilks Funeral to serving the families of southeast Ida-
Home and is grateful for the opportuni- ho for many years to come.
ties he has to serve the community.

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