Archive for Family
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Keeping Your Loved Ones Safe This Holiday Season
By Pam Haumann New Parent Services Manager Child Abuse Council The Holiday Season is upon us. For many, it is a festive time of year complete with mistletoe, poinsettias and holly bushes for decking our halls. Add in fresh evergreen trees with tinsel, bright shining lights and ornaments of al...
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A Hundred Years… A Million Changes – Part IV
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Everyone would probably agree that a lot of things have changed over the past hundred years. We’ve unpacked just a small handful of such things in the past three articles in this series. As societal ideals in general have changed o...
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A Holiday Plan
By Curt Ford Nash Nash Bean & Ford The holidays are typically a time for families to gather together to recall favorite memories and also to create new ones. As the generations grow and change however, a holiday gathering is also a great time to keep an eye on an aging relative, especially ...
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Tips to Survive the Holidays
By Mary Schricker Gemberling The following is an excerpt from Handling the Holidays by Therese Rando, PhD. One of the most painful issues to deal with is how to survive the holidays after the death of a loved one Because holidays are supposed to be family times, and because of the extraordi...
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A Hundred Years… A Million Changes, Part III
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home In the past two issues, we’ve glanced at a handful of societal changes during the past one hundred years and noted that these changes have influenced certain things such as visitations (which, prior to established funeral homes, were ofte...
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Thanksgiving Family Traditions
By Pam Haumann New Parent Services Manager Child Abuse Council Thanksgiving, is a word meaning “to give thanks.” Maybe you’re thankful for the food you’ll eat, the football games that will be played and won or lost, thankful for the start of the Christmas Holiday “shopping” season...
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A Hundred Years… A Million Changes, Part II
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Last month began a multi-part series which merely scratched the surface of the manifold societal changes during the past one hundred years. We reviewed things like advances in manufacturing, increased life spans and, of course, advances in ...
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Spirited Fun for Everyone
By Pam Haumann New Parent Services Manager Child Abuse Council Halloween for many is just another day, but for many adults and children it is a Holiday to be celebrated by dressing up in funny, scary or otherwise fun costumes and masks and going door to door asking for sweet treats. But, with ...
