Friends Funeral
Service is a full service funeral establishment offering personal,
distinctive and affordable services to individuals and families of all
religious faiths. Listed below is a general outline of the many
services we offer. Please feel free to Contact Us at your convenience
for a professional, no cost or obligation consultation, regarding any
aspect of our services, merchandise or community resources.
General
- Twenty-four (24) hour staff availability.
- "Proudly
Independent" - Owned and Operated by Walter Klassen, Harold
Koslowsky and Harry Froese
- Accommodating all faiths.
- Full service funeral establishments, providing a complete array of diversified funeral, cremation,
memorialization and alternative funeral service options.
- Complete line of quality, affordable funeral merchandise including: Caskets, Burial Vaults, Grave Liners, Cremation Urns, Flowers, Keepsakes, Memorials, Acknowledgement Cards, etc.
- Professional, personalized, affordable, caring, dignified service.
- All Funeral Directors are fully educated, licensed and experienced in all aspects of funeral and cremation service, along with being compassionate, dedicated and helpful people.
- Transfer service to locations around the world.
- Complete assistance with Veterans and Death Benefits, Life Insurance processing, union or fraternal insurance processing, etc.
- Complete Funeral Prearrangement Planning (funded and non-funded options)
Funeral Misconceptions
Excerpt from "Creating Meaningful Funeral Ceremonies" by Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D.
- Funerals are too expensive. The social, psychological and emotional benefits of authentic funerals far outweigh their financial costs. Besides, a funeral needn't be lavishly expensive to be meaningful.
- Funerals make us too sad. When someone loved dies, we need to be sad. Funerals provide us with a safe place in which to embrace our pain.
- Funerals are barbaric. On the contrary, meaningful funeral ceremonies are civilized, socially binding rituals. Some people think that viewing the body is barbaric. Cultural differences aside, viewing has many benefits for survivors.
- Funerals are inconvenient. Taking a few hours out of your week to demonstrate your love for the person who died and your support for survivors is not an inconvenience but a privilege.
- Funerals require the body to be embalmed. Not necessarily. Depending on local regulations, funerals held shortly after the death may require no special means of preservation.
- Funerals and cremation are mutually exclusive. A funeral (with or without the body present) may be held prior to cremation. Embalmed bodies are often cremated.
- Funerals are only for religious people. Not true. Non-religious ceremonies (which, by the way, need not be held in a church or officiated by a clergy person) can still meet the survivor's mourning needs.
- Funerals are rote and meaningless. They needn't be. With forethought and planning, funerals can and should be personalized rituals reflecting the uniqueness of the bereaved family.
- Funerals should reflect what the dead person wanted. While pre-planning your funeral may help you reconcile yourself to your own mortality, funerals are primarily for the benefit of the living.
- Funerals are only for grown-ups. Anyone old enough to love is old enough to mourn. Children, too, have the right and the privilege to attend funerals.
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