Who We Are
Missouri Meadows
Established in 2025, Missouri Meadows is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization based out of Saint Charles, Missouri. We are vowed to provide education and resources to individuals and communities about environmentally sustainable death care options and more.
Meet the Team
Eve Heavner, President
Eve Heavner is a licensed funeral director and embalmer in the state of Missouri and a Certified Funeral Service Practitioner (CFSP). She has graduated from St. Louis Community College with an Associate in Applied Sciences for Funeral Service Education and Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a Bachelor of Science for Mortuary Science. Eve is actively pursuing her Master of Science for Thanatology at Marian University Fond du Lac.
Eve’s passion for environmentally sustainable death care started after receiving her Certificate of Proficiency from the Green Burial Council’s course under the instruction of Sam Perry. This interest continued to grow with the instruction of Dr. Rebecca Reynolds at Marian University. Aside from green disposition, Eve is spirited about learning and educating others on grief processes and death care. Throughout her education, she has acquired knowledge of trauma informed care, youth and adolescent bereavement, thanatophobia, suicide loss, and much more.
Besides her work at Missouri Meadows, Eve works as a funeral director at Baue Funeral Homes Cave Springs. In her free time, she enjoys making memories with family and friends, playing Nintendo games, and snuggling with her Tuxedo cat, Skittles.
Zoe Mulherin, Vice-President
Zoe Mulherin was touched by grief at a young age through the death of her brother. That loss has continually shaped her perception of life and empowered her need to help others through death by whatever means. With a combined 5 years in death care and 2.5 years of social work experience, Zoe remains dedicated to serving the community through loss and grief.
Being green is not just a hip movement of the now; Zoe recognizes it as being a change for good towards the future. Zoe received a Bachelors of Arts for Political Science and Law from Lindenwood University. She pursued research around suicides for LGBTQ+ young peoples and how conservatism and capitalism affects death rates. From this experience, Zoe feels attuned to help people discover the beauty of green disposition and help people feel affirmed in their death or loss as much as possible.
Zoe currently helps manage the office of a grief counseling business, The Center for Help and Healing. She is a proud disabled queer woman, who looks forward to serving the community through death.
Kara Yates, Treasurer
Kara Yates began her death care career with a part time job as she attended school for secondary education. Kara found great fulfillment in helping others say goodbye to their loved one and supporting them as they grieved. Eventually, Kara decided to switch her career choice to funeral services; that serendipitous part time job blossomed into a 7 year and counting career.
Kara graduated from the University of Missouri, St. Louis specializing in education and history. Kara loves to learn and educate and is always seeking new information and ideas. She is ecstatic to share with Missourians their options in natural funeral services.
Kara loves to spend her free moments with friends and family especially her husband, Isaac, and their dog, Franklin. Kara can usually be found in the kitchen cooking and baking while Seinfeld, Antiques Roadshow, or Great British Baking Show is playing in the background.
Erin Stevens is always eager to share her passion for inclusive, affirming, and environmentally conscious death care with anyone willing to listen. Growing up in a large family, she became familiar with death and funerals at a young age. About a decade ago, she began questioning how end of life practices could be made more organic for families and gentler on the Earth. Her time working in a funeral home gave her a full view of traditional practices from beginning to end, ultimately strengthening her commitment to exploring nontraditional, sustainable approaches to death care.
With a background in Early Childhood Education, she has a passion for taking care of others. Her previous work as a preschool teacher, funeral service assistant, and now nanny taught her the importance of empathy. She firmly believes that humans have a responsibility to care of one another and the planet from the beginning of life to long after death.
You can often find Erin enjoying her free time with her husband, Jayce, and their two dogs, Dexter and Leo. She loves settling in for a good documentary, painting, and spending meaningful time with her wonderfully supportive family.