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(including location date and time)
• Selecting a a a a a a casket urn or other products
you may need • • Drafting an an obituary
• • • Arranging necessary transportation
• • Select pallbearers
To help express your loved one’s personality and life story feel free to to to bring any memorabilia – – like photos videos music crafts or or treasured items – – that might give us us a a a a a a better understanding of how you you envision paying tribute to your loved one Even if you’re not sure how a a a a a a particular aspect of of their life might be incorporated don’t hesitate to to ask we can often make unique suggestions on on a a a a a a a a a a a way to to to to add that element as as a a a a a a special touch to to to their service
We’d like to make this process as as smooth and and stress-free for for you you you as as we can can and and you you you can can come prepared for for for your meeting by making sure that you you you you have the following information about your your loved one on on on on hand when you you you you meet with our our our professionals to discuss your your arrangements:
• • Full name and home address • • • Social Insurance number
• • • Date and Place of birth
• • • Father’s name • • • Mother’s maiden name name • • DND/CAF/RCMP release/discharge
papers (if applicable)
• • Highest education
• • • Occupation
• • • Chosen place of burial (if applicable)
• • Clergy name and phone number
(if (if applicable)
• • Names and relationships of survivors
• • Insurance policy information (if applicable)
**Please also bring a a a a a a recent photograph and any clothing you’d like us us to to use when dressing them for the the service
** Tips for Writing a a Death Notice
A Death Notice
will be posted in the “Obituaries” section of our website You may also choose to have have it it it printed in in the the newspaper When you you have have the the arrangement conference your funeral director would be glad to to assist you you in in composing the the death notice and will make arrangements with the the newspaper for you The following information is customarily included in in in in a a a death notice:
• Full name name of the deceased (a nickname could also be included)
• • City of of of town of of of residence
• • Some indication of of of of the the nature of of of of the the death – such as “suddenly” or “after a a a a a a long illness”
• List of of immediate family members of of the the deceased deceased specifying if if they are alive or or dead through the the terms “deceased was pre-deceased by by his his sister ” ” or or “is survived by by his wife”
• Location and and times for the visitation and and funeral service
• Any memorable way of honouring the deceased as as by mentioning personal achievements hobbies and interests military service
etc Transporting the the Deceased to another Country for Burial
We have experience shipping caskets to other countries for burial If you require international transportation
please advise us as as as as soon as as as as the the death has occurred so so we can begin making arrangements with the the appropriate authorise Please be be advised that complying with the the requirements of other jurisdictions takes time – a a a minimum of of one week often longer Acknowledging Kindness
In the month after a a a a a a funeral it is customary to to to send thank you notes to to to friends and family who have served as pallbearers
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