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Who We Are

At Daneri Mortuary, we are invested in helping families confronted by death and providing comfortable facilities, helpful resources, and knowledge
Our funeral director and supportive staff are committed to ensuring your family is confident in decisions made during this time, whether basic or complex.

We are proud of our relationships with families throughout Jackson, CA, and surrounding areas over the years. As a pre-planning authority, Daneri Mortuary is dedicated to easing families and obliging all wishes and requests during a difficult time.

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Since 1902

Our Story

21-year-old James Daneri took over the county’s only mortuary in 1902, and the services were standard. When needs arose, a horse-drawn hearse had to be rented from a local stable. By 1918, the purchase of a horseless carriage hearse was allowed to serve the community better.

Today, Daneri Mortuary continues to change with the times and does its best to meet our community’s expanding needs. What remains the same is our commitment to providing professional and caring service to families.

Expanding Service Since 1902

Since 1902, the Daneri family has aimed to deliver excellent service and build community trust. Today, our full-service mortuary results from community trust built on decades of experience in providing caring support and quality service. We offer many different services, including Sunset View Cemetery, a crematorium, columbarium, and mausoleum.

We’re Here For You

Our sensitive and attentive staff is proud to serve the community with professionalism and excellence. Families find comfort and support when choosing to work with Daneri Mortuary because we are also their neighbors. With a century-long service record, we are a pre-planning authority dedicated to freeing families of painful decisions and tedious paperwork and ensuring a seamless process.
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Michael Johnson

Owner & General Manager

michael@danerimortuary.com
Michael Johnson graduated from Argonaut High School in Jackson, CA, and Cypress College with a Mortuary Science Certificate. He trained for two years in an apprenticeship program at Daneri Mortuary and Spongberg Mortuary. Michael took on additional studying and training while on the job to prepare him for testing on multiple industry licenses, including Funeral Director, Embalmer, Advance-planning Insurance Expertise, Cemetery Manager, Crematory Manager, and Cemetery Broker.
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What inspired Michael to join the funeral service was his father, who made a career in it. His father dedicated his life to the profession and caring for those who experienced loss through death. Michael finds it most rewarding getting to know people’s life stories through the perspective of their friends and family. He enjoys being challenged and inspired to live a remarkable life from the stories he hears. Michael also finds great satisfaction in providing a valued function to the grieving family by offering his expertise in a field that is so misunderstood in general.

Michael wants people to remember Daneri Mortuary as a compassionate and caring company of people. To view them as a company of people who deliver quality and competency to its clients and community. We are a group of people who strive to ensure their customers’ best experience no matter their choices or economic limitations as if they are part of our own family.

Goals that he would like to achieve deal primarily with the company’s experience with the families in our community. Our attention to their expertise drives improvements to our facilities, staff education and licensing, accessibility to information through technology and personal

Regina Schowengerdt

Funeral Director & Office Manager 

Regina has been with Daneri Mortuary since January of 2006. She is a Funeral Counselor, Pre-need Arrangement Counselor, and Cemetery Salesperson. By nature, she enjoys serving others, and Daneri Mortuary provides the perfect setting for her to help families at a tough time in their lives. Families can be confident their loved ones receive the best care possible not only by Regina, but also by the entire Daneri staff. Regina was raised in Calaveras County and has made Amador County her home since 1990. She graduated from Stanislaus State University with her Bachelor’s in Psychology in 1984.
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She has a son who currently lives in Ione, CA, with his daughters, Zavia, age 5, and Zailey, age 3. Her son, Michael Henry Schowengerdt, Jr., is now 17 and is very involved with his youth group. Her daughter, Danica, lives in Orangevale, and on January 31, 2016, gave birth to a handsome boy named Les Hagan William Myers. Les was born with a genetic disease, Trisomy 18. They were told he would only live “days” but he was a fighter, and he blessed their lives for one month and eight days. On March 8, 2016, Les received his wings.

Regina is a committee member for the Ione Veterans Memorial Park, which hosts two events each year; “The Walk for our Troops,” held in April, and the “Veterans Shoot” at CHHP, which is held in November. She is also on the suicide prevention committee for Amador County and is an 8th-grade girls counselor at PiPi Christian Youth Camp every July.

Regina feels she has been very blessed in life with a beautiful family, career, great friends, and is very thankful for Amador County’s community.

Christopher Gordon

Funeral Director & Embalmer

Christopher graduated with honors with his AS in Funeral Service Education from American River College in 2005 after receiving an AA in Speech Communication from Las Positas College in 2003.

He got his Funeral Directors license in 2005 and his Embalmers license in 2008 after doing his apprenticeship in Richmond. Christopher has since been employed within the industry at private and corporate locations. Christopher enjoys playing bass in a local jazz band, piano, chess, cooking, and learning to code in his spare time.

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No one or one thing, in particular, inspired Christopher into this profession. He was at a crossroads in life and yielded to this career to satiate a need to serve. The part of his career he finds most enjoyable is cemetery development, especially in prearrangements.

Christopher thinks of himself as meticulous, conscientious, and family-oriented. Some of his goals include getting more involved with pre-arranging and preparing to be a great father. He hopes to preserve the traditions of Daneri Mortuary for years to come.

In his free time, he enjoys music.

Artina Parkyn

Administrative Assistant

Artina is the administrative assistant in the office. Her assistant duties revolve around managing and distributing information within the office. This job generally includes answering phones, maintaining files, and filing death certificates. She may also oversee sending and receiving correspondence, as well as greeting the families.
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Artina grew up in Amador County and has been involved in the family business, Daneri’s, since a teenager, running various errands and cleaning. Once graduating high school, she spent a year at West Coast Baptist College in Lancaster, CA, for Bible and administrative courses. When returning to her hometown of Jackson, she spent some time developing her customer service skills in different businesses, such as a retail boutique and an interior design studio, until she made her way back to Daneri’s, where her passion for serving families at a difficult time remains.

She and her husband, Sean, have been married for eight years and have two children, Anthony (6) and Kyleigh (3). Sean was recently hired onto a Sacramento Fire Department as a fire medic. On their days home as a family, they love taking adventures and making many memories together. There is never a dull moment. You can mostly find them working on their yard, either gardening or mowing the lawn for a game with the kids.

Chris Douglas

Mortuary/Cemetery Service Assistant

Chris is essential to the everyday activities of Daneri Mortuary. He supports the staff in many ways, including transportation, maintenance, and assisting in funerals and services. Chris and his wife Suzanne live in Jackson and love going out for road trips on their Harley. His education includes HS Grad and life experience as a mechanic and firefighter for many years. The direct training in funeral service has been through on the job and in the field training.
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Chris enjoys riding motorcycles and seeing new places.

Funeral service was a natural progression following his service as a firefighter. It was an easy transition to a less physically demanding pace that has allowed him to continue to be of service during a difficult time in others’ lives. Providing families with a dependable, knowledgeable, and caring experience are the things that are important to Chris and bring him great satisfaction in service. Giving back to the community in this unique way has enabled him to develop and use skills where families depend on him to provide support and comfort through service.

Jorge Martinez

Service Assistant

Jorge is the grounds supervisor of Sunset View Cemetery. In addition to maintaining the cemetery, he opens and closes graves, sets headstones, and operates the crematory. When he’s not at the cemetery, Jorge enjoys working out, playing soccer, or going fishing.

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To learn more about our caring and professional staff, please contact us at 209-223-0793 today.

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Daneri Mortuary
415 Broadway
Jackson, CA 95642
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Contact
209-223-0793
info@danerimortuary.com

Fax: 209-223-5408

Hours

Monday - Friday:
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday:
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM