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Personalizing Your Loved Ones Funeral
A Funeral is a time to remember and to celebrate the life of your
loved one.
Today, a funeral can be as special as the individual who is being
remembered. You may wish to display personal photographs reflecting
the various times and events throughout their life, or have a
theme reflecting your loved ones hobbies and personality. Regardless
what you have in mind, our people are prepared to assist in arranging
the details, accordingly to your wishes.
Here are a few questions that may help you when considering how
to personalize your loved ones funeral:
What did your loved one enjoy doing?
Suggestions for including your loved ones favorite hobbies and
past times within the funeral service:
- Displaying their sporting equipment, gardening tools, books,
homemade crafts etc.
- Place a reminder of their hobby on the casket or urn (golf
club – home made quilt etc.)
- Have a display showing the various recognitions, awards and
trophies they received
- Create a picture collage board showing them active in their
hobbies
- Having Connelly-McKinley produce a D.V.D. tribute using your
family photographs – and having the video shown during
the funeral service or memorial reception.
How will people remember your loved one and for what?
Reflect on what made them who they were, what made them special
to their family and friends.
Display or incorporate:
- Jars of Mom’s famous home made jam
- Quilts and other home made crafts
- Furniture made by Dad
- Flowers from their garden or arrange for Connelly-McKinley’s
in-house flower shop to have an arrangement of your loved ones
favorite flowers present for the funeral service.
- For a farmer or western enthusiast using Connelly-McKinley’s
historic horse drawn hearse, in place of the modern motor coach.
- Play their favorite music pieces before and during the funeral
service
- Instead of having a poem on the memorial card – place
mom’s favorite recipe on the back for all those in attendance
to really have something to cherish and be reminded of her.
Other suggestions, which Connelly-McKinley Funeral Homes
can assist in arranging:
- Honor Guards from Legions and Service Clubs
- Display Military medals for a member of the Canadian Armed
forces or allied forces
- Display your loved ones favorite motorcycle or cars outside
where the funeral service is being held
- Display skis, golf clubs and other sporting equipment for
an outdoor enthusiast
- Dove releases
- Balloon release
- Fellow members of sporting and/or service clubs to act as
Casket or honorary bearers
- Have pillar candles lit within the funeral service by each
surviving generation within the family (example: son, grandson,
great-grandson son)
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