How To Write A Funeral Thank You Card.

When considering a funeral thank you card, you need to select a card that is meaningful to you, and meaningful to the funeral service and to the person that has passed on. 

When sitting down to write the thank you card you need to put several things into context as you do this.

• Think about who the card is going to and what part, or what role that person played in your loved ones life.
• Did the deceased have a long illness, where this individual came by and visited, where this individual came by and brought food or helped in different ways?
• Did this individual attend the funeral service or come by during the visitation themselves? Or, and did they send flowers, or send food to the funeral?

All of those things need to be considered or given some thought prior to sitting down to write the thank you card. The reason being, is you want to be sure and try to remember those things in the note that you personally hand write to this individual.

Once you have acquired that information and sat down and made note about what this individual did for you, then take your thank you note, and write on the inside of it a personal handwritten note to this individual and thank them for what they have meant to you, what they have meant to your loved one and what they meant to the family during this time of loss.

The appropriate time for them to be sent is what would be appropriate for you. As soon after the funeral as possible, but for every individual because of the grief process, that changes with time. Some individuals can sit down and do that a few days after the funeral service, but some individuals because of the grief that their experiencing, it may be some time before they get around to doing the process and actually filling out the thank you cards. So, as soon as is appropriate for you, be sure to remember what the individual did for you, and remember them with a thank you card.

Traditional Low Cost Funeral Graveside Services In Saint Louis MO

A graveside traditional low cost funeral services in of itself is not very difficult to plan. But there are a number of elements to that graveside service that you need to consider when planning the graveside service. 

 

What type cemetery is involved in this low cost funeral graveside services. Is it a memorial gardens where it has, which has flat markers or tombstones. Which would allow you to cover those and place seatings and tents and individuals to stand. Or is it one that has the upright stones and it is a cemetery that is flat in nature or is it one that's on a hillside that would have difficulty for someone sitting in a chair, placing a tent and those type things. Those are the first things you need to consider. But once you've determined where it would be and what the site will look like, then you want to make sure there's adequate number of chairs for any elderly or the older people that may be attending the graveside service.

The service itself you have to route you a path to bring the casket in from the hearse over to the graveside itself. Then once the casket is placed and the family is there and everyone is seated then you would much like a service in a funeral home chapel you would have someone to speak which may be the families minister or the deceased favorite minister. Or someone that is a friend of the family that knows the deceased, someone that could tell some stories or some times that they have had with the person that has lived. To give a little memorial service program or some type of traditional funeral services held there at the graveside. 

 

Once the ceremony part of the service is over with then usually the family will need to decide, do I want to stay while the grave is being serviced, while the casket is placed into the graveside and while it's covered with dirt or would they prefer to leave or maybe just walk around in the cemetery and visit with their friends while those things are being done. Usually part of the service, the servicing of the grave will take anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour for the personal from the cemetery to service that grave. So all of these are the components of the graveside ceremony that you need to consider when planning a graveside service.