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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 123061" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>My dad passes away suddenly just over 9 months ago. The invincible - wasn't.</p><p></p><p>He hated overly religious services. He called them "recruiting parties for Christ". We were all sure he wouldn't have wanted that. He also didn't like a big fuss to be made over him, so we planned a small graveside service with a lot of little things that meant something to us, his family, and a farmer/neighbor/classmate from country school performed the graveside service. </p><p></p><p>He loved his family, his farm, and his antique tractors, so we had the grandsons drive the tractors to the cemetary, and at the end of the service, the oldest started grandpa's tractor, a Johnny Popper, and "popped" it loud. Another granddaughter brought yellow and green balloons to release, then the 3 tractors lead a procession to a lunch at a local church. The casket flowers were built around one of his toy tractors, and everyone who wanted contributed to the arrangement by adding little trinkets that were special between them and my dad. One son brought a tiny rifle and deer, a grandson added a Hot Wheels go-cart and 4wheeler, someone added a tiny cast iron skillet. Wee difficult child, the youngest of his grandkids, had spent all day with him the week before selling him colored Easter eggs. He stuck in an Easter egg and a bag of change so grandpa could buy eggs in Heaven.</p><p></p><p>The 2 hour visitation turned into 5 hours and the small graveside service had cars lining the highway for a mile either direction from the cemetary. Had we known that, we probably wouldn't have put all the goofy stuff on his casket spray, but then again, that's the kinda guy he was, and I'm pretty sure it was a bash he'd have loved and it was the bash we all needed to say goodbye. </p><p></p><p>Guess I'm kinda hijacking your post, but my point was, with a little creativity, I think we combined what dad would have wanted with what the rest of us needed. Hopefully you and yours can do the same.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 123061, member: 1848"] My dad passes away suddenly just over 9 months ago. The invincible - wasn't. He hated overly religious services. He called them "recruiting parties for Christ". We were all sure he wouldn't have wanted that. He also didn't like a big fuss to be made over him, so we planned a small graveside service with a lot of little things that meant something to us, his family, and a farmer/neighbor/classmate from country school performed the graveside service. He loved his family, his farm, and his antique tractors, so we had the grandsons drive the tractors to the cemetary, and at the end of the service, the oldest started grandpa's tractor, a Johnny Popper, and "popped" it loud. Another granddaughter brought yellow and green balloons to release, then the 3 tractors lead a procession to a lunch at a local church. The casket flowers were built around one of his toy tractors, and everyone who wanted contributed to the arrangement by adding little trinkets that were special between them and my dad. One son brought a tiny rifle and deer, a grandson added a Hot Wheels go-cart and 4wheeler, someone added a tiny cast iron skillet. Wee difficult child, the youngest of his grandkids, had spent all day with him the week before selling him colored Easter eggs. He stuck in an Easter egg and a bag of change so grandpa could buy eggs in Heaven. The 2 hour visitation turned into 5 hours and the small graveside service had cars lining the highway for a mile either direction from the cemetary. Had we known that, we probably wouldn't have put all the goofy stuff on his casket spray, but then again, that's the kinda guy he was, and I'm pretty sure it was a bash he'd have loved and it was the bash we all needed to say goodbye. Guess I'm kinda hijacking your post, but my point was, with a little creativity, I think we combined what dad would have wanted with what the rest of us needed. Hopefully you and yours can do the same. [/QUOTE]
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