Nurse honor guard hoping to grow in South Dakota

Published by admin on Fri, 04/04/2025 - 1:17pm

Nurse Honor Guard The Nurse Honor Guard aims to recognize the careers of nurses through funeral services. Here (from left), Laura Frankenhoff RN and Ruth Hernandez DNP, APRN, CNP wear the traditional wardrobe for a Nurse Honor Guard ceremony. ~ Courtesy Photo

by Brenner Cariveau, Reporter & Farmer 

Nurse Honor Guard is a national organization which aims to honor the life of a nurse in funeral services. Traveling home, health and hospice nurse Laura Frankenhoff said the ceremonies help highlight the career of the nurses and is a way to ensure they are recognized for the work they have done as a nurse. 

Nurse Honor Guard has been performing ceremonies to honor the lives of nurses nationwide since their inception in the 1980s, Frankenhoff said.

Regarding the honor guard, the base is made up of volunteers, according to Frankenhoff. "It's a volunteer chapter. You can make a chapter anywhere." For more on this story and many more please purchase a copy of the Sisseton Courier on news stands now or purchase a copy of the E-edtion on this website.

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