Vonda Rosado

Owner/Funeral Director/Embalmer/Licensed Pre-Need Specialist

Vonda is a 1991 graduate of Herrin High School and a 1994 graduate of the Southern Illinois University Mortuary Science Program. She has been a licensed funeral director and embalmer for more than thirty years. Vonda is also a licensed pre-need specialist.  

Vonda served her summer internship at McClure Funeral Homes in Chester and Du Quoin. After graduation from SIU in 1994, she served her apprenticeship at Lamb-Young Funeral Home in Gibson City, where she continued to work for five years. Her love of home, parents and family brought her back to Southern Illinois. She began working at Hughes Funeral Homes in Herrin and Marion, where she has had the privilege to work for the past twenty years. Serving and caring for families at Johnson Hughes Funeral Home in Herrin IL, Mitchell Hughes Funeral Home in Marion and Blues Funeral Home in Marion  and Goreville IL. 

Vonda currently also serves as the Du Quoin Chamber of Commerce Executive Director and the Elks Lodge 884 Treasurer.