She tried to tell us, she was trouble. Rest in Peace Amy Winehouse. 4 September 1983 – 23 July 2011
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Why A Wood Urn is a Good Memorial Choice
Selecting an urn can be overwhelming. People who have never shopped for a funeral urn are surprised at the variety of styles available. A wood urn can simplify the difficult decision of picking the perfect memorial for a loved one. If you like the look of wood, there are many wood urns that may suit your needs.
Wood urns range from simple and elegant hand carved to rustic beauty and charm. Wood urns are suitable for burial or to keep in the home and are so attractive that they don’t have to be stored in the closet.
Traditional styles as well as modern designs and memorial chests are available in the wood urn collection.
We always recommend engraving the urn for id purposes and if time allows many of the wood urns can be laser engraved to personalize and protect the container.
An added bonus to the wood urns is that many of the styles we carry are made in America from timber harvested right here in the USA.
Easy Garden Memorial- Purple Coneflower
If you are looking for an easy low maintenance planting for a grave site or memorial garden, a flower that comes to mind is the Purple Coneflower. A personal favorite for it’s wild beauty and the healing properties of Echinacea. Hearty and drought resistant, they keep reseeding and come back every year. The genus name “echino” translates in Greek to hedgehog.
Other memorial garden ideas:
Early spring flowers: Bleeding Hearts
Living memorial: Weeping Cherry Tree
The appearance of snowdrops in early spring is a stirring promise of renewal.
August birth flower: Gladiolus
Assorted memorial garden trees and bushes.
That’s all I had Left, was his Urn and his Ashes
Not what you want to see on the highway on a holiday weekend….
She forgot to latch the trunk and someone stole the engraved brass urn with her husband’s ashes.
“We were the only English people attending this Amish funeral. It was unlike any funeral we have ever attended.”
Overheard at the office: “Direct cremation and this never would have happened.”
Wishing you a joyous and safe holiday!
There is so much I want to tell you about last week
The Victorian Blood Book fascinates everyone who has ever seen it.
On his deathbed in November of 1963, just as he was passing away, Brave New World novelist Aldous Huxley; a man who for many years had been fascinated with the effects of psychedelic drugs since being introduced to mescaline in 1953 – asked his wife Laura to administer him with LSD. She agreed.
Ralph Morse, an ambitious photojournalist for Life magazine, covered a funeral in New Jersey on April 18, 1955. Now, 55 years later, Life.com is finally publishing the pictures he took that day during the cremation and funeral of Albert Einstein.
October 1939: Hitler signs the following memo, backdated to September, and the euthanasia program becomes official. Now named Action T4, the program no longer discriminates with regards to age and all persons, young and old, can now be killed should they be ‘unworthy of life’.
November, 1942: Five brothers, all serving on the same vessel during World War II, are killed in action as a result of said warship sinking at the Battle of the Solomons. Two months later, after hearing no word from the Navy regarding her sons’ well-being, Alleta Sullivan writes the following, deeply moving letter to the Bureau of Naval Personnel.
After nearly 65 years in a shoebox inside an old trunk, letters written by WWII soldiers to Hollywood actress, Donna Reed asking for a pinup have finally been made public.