"The night before my grandmother's funeral, my father said, "Let's go down and visit Mama Hoyle." We went to the funeral home,
sat beside her casket, and spent a couple of hours telling Mama Hoyle stories. I shall never forget that night. We broke through barriers families build to keep from sharing grief with each other. We started a tradition that night that continues to this day. Anytime my family gets together, we tell those same stories. I not only know what stories will be told, I know the order in which they will be told. Because of this story telling, Mama Hoyle is still alive among us. No one is dead until they are forgotten. She is not dead."
- Doug Manning
Excerpted from Building Memories: Planning a Meaningful Funeral
With permission from Insight Books, Inc. © 2002 |
www.insightbooks.com
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I'm glad you found your way to our website. It is constantly under construction so please just manuever around areas that look like I am still working on them.
The primary reason to have a funeral home website is to provide our obituaries and an online register book. I find it particularly helpful to families when they have family or friends in distant areas that absolutely cannot make it to services.
The directions page is helpful, and it cuts down on me giving directions over the phone like, "turn in Bostic at the dilapidated buildings on the corner." My mother has a tendency to tell folks to, "turn at Good 'Ol Boys", and sometimes fails to tell them that she is referring to a store. I can only imagine what image is evoked of what Good 'Ol Boys (who would cause you to turn away from them...) indeed look like. So you can use the directions page unless you are prone to want to hear these colorful landmarks on the telephone.
I have tried to make the site as plain spoken and candid as possible. I have tried to stay away from smarmy and fluffy explanations of what we do - but as I said it's all under construction and some fluff and smarm could remain, but I'm working on it.
So, go forth and click away...and thanks for stopping by. Please feel free to call us at (828) 248-1234 or e-mail us at wd1998@bellsouth.net should you have any questions.
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True life is often funnier than jokes, and there are always great stories to share. We've gathered a few of ours to share with you - sit back and enjoy our Bostic Ramblings section on our Local Information page.
"How much does a funeral cost?" Honest answers to all questions may be found on our new Questions and Answers page. We encourage you to send us your questions (even the tough ones), and we'll provide our honest answers.
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