Title: Agency Services Supervisor

How do you help ASNOA Affiliates? I facilitate all contracts for Affiliates and producers! 

What is your favorite part of working with ASNOA Affiliates?   Getting to know them and their “stories”. ASNOA Affiliates are great people, and I so enjoy talking with them when helping them out. Affiliates are part of our ASNOA family. It is a great family to be a part of! 

Tell us your story:  I began in the insurance industry back as a Met Life Insurance Agent in 1988.  I have worked for captive life agencies and brokerage agencies in the life and investment areas, in and out of the Chicagoland area.  Prior to insurance, I was a retail manager for many years with the old Service Merchandise Catalog Showroom, where I started as a clerk in 1980.  My very first job however, was a fountain girl at Farrell’s Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor for a year.  I “retired” from insurance and retail in 1998 to be a stay at home mom for a few years taking care of my son Brendan and daughter Baylee, now 19 and 22 years old!  I then began a 15 year career in the funeral industry, working as the Office Manager for Adolf Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Berwyn and Willowbrook, IL.  I sold pre-need funeral plans as well, being that I was still a licensed life insurance agent.  With the shift in funeral services to mostly cremation versus full funerals,  I changed careers once more, leaving the funeral homes, for a Case Manager position at a brokerage life agency, Sequoia Premier Partners, in Naperville, IL.   My last move in October of 2018, was to join ASNOA as Agency Services Coordinator, a challenging and very busy position that I love.  I totally enjoy working with the great staff of friends (family) every day. I am an elected Township Trustee in my hometown of Berwyn, IL., I am on the Berwyn 708 Mental Health Board as designated trustee, and I am the music director and children’s school choir director at St. Leonard Church in Berwyn.    

What is your favorite thing to do outside of the office?  I like to go to concerts in the parks, play violin and flute, read books, go to dinner with friends, and play with my dogs, Benny, Macho, Lola, Bear, Kaiju, and Milo. 

What is your favorite food?  My favorite food is a Czech dish called “Svickova”.  It is a boiled beef in tomato cream gravy served with bread dumplings.