The Indiana Funeral Directors Association announced the appointment of Jim Weldy, owner of Johnson-Danielson Funeral Home in Plymouth to the Board of Directors of the association. 

Weldy will be the District 2 representative which covers St. Joseph, Marshall, Elkhart, Kosciusko, and Fulton counties in northern Indiana.

Weldy is a 1978 graduate of Worsham College of Mortuary Science in Chicago. While serving families in funeral service in Illinois and Indiana for the past 45 years, he continues to serve on a Federal Disaster Weldy has responded to many mass fatalities, such as 9/11, Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, and the earthquake in Haiti.  Weldy was also a police officer for 10 years serving Dwight, Manito, and Mason County in Illinois.  He served 13 years with the Havana Rural Fire Department in Illinois attaining the rank of Deputy Chief. 

Weldy and his wife have two children, Brian (Beth) Weldy of Urbana, Ill, and Jamie (Ryan) Beckwith of Plymouth and two grandsons, Ethan and Oliver. 

Jim Weldy and Terri purchased Johnson-Danielson Funeral Home in 2017.