About Us

Founded in the summer of 2003, Thomas & Associates provides funeral pre-planning products, services, training and marketing to the funeral profession and offers independent funeral home owners proven ways and means to remain competitively strong and economically viable into the future. 

At Thomas & Associates, our goal is to help you every step of the way on your journey to success. Careful planning in regards to your pre-planning program can put you on a positive path to achievement. All our services and programs are custom designed to meet your unique needs as well as those of the families you serve. Since our earliest days, we have developed and adhered to a strict set of conservative guiding principles and values that have helped shape our destiny and given us a unique identity in the marketplace. As a result, we are one of the nation’s fastest growing and most admired funeral pre-planning companies dedicated to bringing you total funeral service solutions.

Thomas & Associates seeks to establish and nurture a symbiotic relationship between our company, employees, partners and clients – with each part working in concert with one another to achieve goals and objectives.  Thomas & Associates owes our success to all these entities who translate the company’s values into everyday action.

In March 2008 Thomas and Associates were chosen as the endorsed preneed marketing agency by the Oklahoma Funeral Directors Association.

Thomas & Associates is fully committed to:

• Doing what is always right for our clients and the families they serve.
• Creating unmatched value.
• Enhancing and preserving the nobility of the funeral profession.
• Delivering world-class service, quality funding products and expert guidance that address the changing needs of our profession.
• Building and preserving a foundation of loyalty among our clients through developing enduring relationships built over time and based on accountability and trust.

Let Us Introduce Ourselves…

David and Margaret Thomas
Co-Founders and Principals

David Thomas
David Thomas is a 3rd generation Oklahoma funeral director. He graduated with distinction from the Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science in 1974. After working in the Thomas family funeral homes until 1985, David decided to steer his career in a slightly different direction and began his work in the funeral preplanning industry.

David worked for Homesteaders Life Company, Des Moines, Iowa for 14 years in various capacities; the last 7 of which holding the prominent position of Chief of Marketing and Sales. Feeling that he had significantly more to give to the funeral profession that his position at Homesteaders Life Company would not allow him to contribute, David and his wife, Margaret moved back to Oklahoma in 2003 and created the Thomas and Associates marketing agency. The agency is on a steady upward growth path serving family owned and operated funeral homes principally in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. David can be reached via e-mail at david@thomasandassociates.org.

Margaret Thomas
Margaret Thomas began her funeral industry career twenty-five years ago working in her husband’s family’s funeral homes as a funeral prearrangement counselor. Sensing the need for contact with families after the funeral service, she created a checklist for in-home visits to aid in identifying the needs of grieving family members.

In 1992 she accepted a position with Otten Management’s Friends of the Family aftercare division. Coast to coast travel and interaction with funeral home owners of diverse backgrounds provided the aftercare background that would play a large part in her future success. In 1994 she contracted with Homesteaders Life Company to help formulate the aftercare program, Families in Transition, which is used in many funeral homes across the country. She also worked as Manager of Customer Relations for Homesteaders until 2003 and is a recognized Certified Funeral Celebrant. Margaret and her husband, David, currently reside in magnificent Monkey Island, Oklahoma. Margaret can be reached via e-mail at margaret@thomasandassociates.org.

To learn more contact David or Margaret at (918) 541-7157. This is one telephone call you do not want to put off until tomorrow. Call now!