Risher Mortuary & Cremation Service

03/19/2025

So honored to be President of this exceptional organization!

Selected is excited to announce the election of Barbara Risher Welch as President and Christopher Waite as Board Chair for 2026 as chosen by the Board of Directors at their recent meeting. Barbara is the President and Owner of Risher Mortuary & Cremation Service in Montebello, CA., and Christopher is the Owner of Waite Funeral Homes in Medina, OH. Barbara and Christopher represent Membership Groups 6 and 2 respectively, and they will begin their Officer terms at the 2025 Selected Annual Meeting being held September 28 – October 1st, in New Orleans, LA.

Please join us in congratulating Barbara and Christopher and thanking our entire Board of Directors for their volunteer service to the association.

11/12/2024

On this Veteran's Day, I am proud to share my Father, the founder of Risher Montebello Mortuary, Raymond Risher. He was a proud WWII Veteran of the United States Army Air Corps (Air Force). Following in Grandpa's footsteps are our two Veteran children, Major Nathan Welch and Captain Kaylie Welch, who both served in the Air Force and now in the USAF Reserves. My Father-in-law, Calvin Welch, served in the Navy, both in WWII and the Korean War. So proud of all of them and proud to be an American.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

11/01/2024

Risher Mortuary is proud to support Mission Flight, a wonderful organization flying Doctors & Nurses to Baja, Mexico to provide eye surgeries to the farm workers. The surgeries are free and are available to all who inquire. Greg and I are richly blessed by this ministry. In fact, we are additionally blessed because our son, Nathan is one of the Mission Flight pilots, helping to make it all happen. God is Good!

Risher Mortuary & Cremation Service provides compassionate and personalized funeral and cremation services in Montebello, CA.

09/29/2024

We’re enjoying our time Selected Independent Funeral Homes Annual Meeting. It’s so nice to be able to share best practices with the best and brightest independent funeral homes in the US and Canada.

05/21/2024

Attention, Facebook Family! 🔔 We're excited to announce our new Facebook profile! Due to access issues, we've migrated to a new page to ensure seamless communication. Follow us now on our new page https://www.facebook.com/rishermortuarycremationservice

Thank you,
Barbara Risher Welch

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"Comforting those in their time of sorrow as God has comforted us in our sorrow" 2 Corinthians 1:4

08/03/2023

So honored to serve with this great group of Board members and Selected staff!

Last week our current and incoming Board of Directors visited our Headquarters in Lincolnshire, IL for a series of important meetings including orientation with our incoming Board Directors, a team building session with leadership coach Marguerite Ham and a tour of the JW Marriott in advance of our Chicago Annual Meeting. We are thankful for each of our Board Directors and their commitment to Selected and its members.

Pictured left to right:
- John Kepner Raymer-Kepner Funeral Home and Cremation Services
- Eric Trimble Trimble Funeral Home & Crematory
- Sheridan Lee Bryan-Lee Funeral Homes
- Barbara Risher Welch Risher Mortuary & Cremation Service
- Christopher Waite Waite and Son Funeral Homes
- Al Asta Whitney & Murphy Funeral Home
- Byron Calhoun Calhoun Funeral Home & Cremation Service
- Tom Antram French Funerals - Cremations
- John Keohane Keohane Funeral Home
- Dave Moore Hogan Bremer Moore Colonial Chapel

10/04/2022

We're excited for the Montebello-Commerce YMCA's upcoming annual event and another year of getting to support this wonderful organization!

08/09/2022

“There are wonderful kids in our community. We have been blessed by this community and seek to pass on a blessing to them.”

DOWNEY – Risher Mortuary and Cremation Services recently announced the winners of its $9000 “Caring for Others” scholarship. According to Barbara Risher Welch and husband Greg Welch, owners of Risher Mortuary, the concept of the scholarship “is much more important” than the usual qualifica...

04/13/2022

We’re excited and honored to share that our owner, Barbara Risher Welch, has joined the Selected Independent Funeral Homes Board of Directors! Her four year appointment will focus on supporting and growing the number of independently-owned providers. The values of exceptional and compassionate care that we have strived for at Risher for 63 years are embodied by the 100-year-old Selected network making this the perfect fit!

08/26/2020

08/26/2020