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03/08/2026

Today on International Women’s Day, we honour the women who walk a path few choose, yet so many depend on.
In deathcare, women show up with quiet strength, steady hands, and compassionate hearts—guiding families through their darkest moments with dignity and grace. They carry stories, hold space for grief, and ensure that every life is remembered with care.
Thank you for the courage, empathy, and professionalism you bring to this sacred work every day.

01/31/2025

Help me please honor my Sweetheart's legacy. Please give what you can. It is greatly appreciated. Our insurance was denied (2 yr. minimum).
I lost the Love of my life, Steven Turner.
Most of you knew him. He was a wonderful, kind person.

I am saddened and heartbroken to inform you that the love of my life, my b… Nancy Burban needs your support for Help Honor Steven Turner's Legacy & Homegoing.

12/09/2023

𝙿𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎, 𝚍𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚎…
She’s in the kitchen washing dishes with her back to you. You approach her with two cups in hand. Fingerprints smeared on the glass. A good few gulps of milk left sloshing around. You place them beside the sink and look to her apologetically.
She doesn’t notice you.
Steam rises from the faucet, and scorching water runs over her hands as she absently scrubs at an already clean pot. Her eyes are not on the sink, but trained out the window.
You follow her gaze to a red bird flitting about in a bush at the back corner of the yard. You look back at her to see her expression has clouded over. Her eyes, heavy with sorrow, slowly blink.
Once that first tear escapes, her face crumbles.
Suddenly the dishes are the least of your concerns.
It’s back again.
You’ve been tiptoeing around it because it gets messy every time it resurfaces.
You’ve used up so much strength to support her because the world goes all pear-shaped whenever she falls apart.
And you’ve found yourself wondering… When will she get over it? When will she stop crying?
When will the memories stop tormenting her?
When will she finally move on?
I know you want to tell her that it will be ok, that we all lose someone we love.
I know you want her to know you feel her pain and that time will heal.
I know you want to say something. Anything.
But above all, please, don’t tell her how to grieve.
When she cries, don’t try to quell her tears. She’s not drowning in them. She’s swimming through thoughts of the love they shared.
When she talks of them, don’t try to change the subject because you think it’s too painful. It’s more painful to bury the memories.
And as the days pass, don’t ask her to move on. She’s not stuck. They are a part of her and she’s a part of them. Death could not undo that. Time will not undo that.
The tears will soon stop flowing and may not return again until tomorrow, or in a month, or in 20 years. But someday, they will come again because the love they shared will stay with her for Always.
There’s nothing you can say, nothing you can tell her, that will change that.
So please, don’t tell her how to grieve.
Just hold her hand. Listen to her stories. And walk beside her though the sorrow.
You may not be the one she’s missing, but you’re the one she has left.
Your quiet presence may be all she needs to make it through. ♥️

07/16/2019

It breaks our hearts to provide this Tribute blanket to the parents of youngster Blake Zane Matthews who lost his battle with brain cancer.

July is National Bereaved Parents month. It breaks our hearts to provide this Tribute blanket to the parents of youngster Blake Zane Matthews who lost his battle with brain cancer. Blake's favorite color was red, he loved dinosaurs and legos. In his short life, he was much loved and is dearly missed. God bless you Blake. Donated by Funeral Home Gifts.

07/06/2019

July is National Bereaved Parents month. For those who have lost a child, I see you. I am you.

”Today I wrote a note to a bereaved mother. I wanted to say don’t believe all those sympathy cards. The ones that say “time heals” and “God only takes the best” and “may your sorrows be lessened.” You’ll only be disappointed. I wanted to say this is the most heart-wrenching, chest crushing, breath stealing tragedy on earth. I wanted to tell her there will be days she wants to die, and friends who will not understand some of the things she does or says.
I wanted to tell her she will still feel her child’s presence at times, sometimes so strongly that it is as if they are dancing just at the edge of whatever activity is going on. And other times she might not feel their presence at all.
I wanted to tell her that her life will not go back, that she will never be the same, because a piece of her left with her child. And that even though the pain does not go away, somehow her soul will eventually make enough room so she can hold it all– the grief, the pain, the joy and the love.
I wanted to tell her… but I didn’t. Instead, I wrote this: I’m sending love, for words are pointless right now. And that is the truth.”
Wonderfully written by Susi Costello
Shared by Hope's Seed.................................

04/04/2019

Join us in saying a sad goodbye to a young man who was taken in his prime. Amen'Ra Allah Liles was a kind and gentle soul who loved life.

Join us in saying a sad goodbye to a young man who was taken in his prime. Amen'Ra Allah Liles was a kind and gentle soul who loved life. We hope this Tribute blanket will be cherished by his loving family. Donated by Funeral Home Gifts in his memory.

01/15/2019

Legendary Broadway star Carol Channing has died, her publicist, Harlan Boll, told CNN on Tuesday.

11/16/2018

It breaks our collective hearts to say goodbye as we honor the short but loving life and legacy, while we mourn the loss of Jeremiah Williams, a 16-year-old from Greenville MS.

It breaks our collective hearts to say goodbye as we honor the short but loving life and legacy, while we mourn the loss of Jeremiah Williams, a 16-year-old from Greenville MS who died a week after sustaining injuries during a football game.

Visitation will be held from 2-4 p.m. Friday at Byas Funeral Home in Greenville with burial at 2 p.m. Saturday at Oaklawn Cemetery.

Williams died on Nov. 9 after spending a week at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. He fractured two vertebrae in his neck while attempting to make a tackle in a Nov. 2 football game against Madison Central.

"Our hearts are broken for the loss of God’s chosen one. I know there’s not a parent in this city, in this State, in this country, in the World that ever thinks or imagines that he or she will bury a child," Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons wrote on Facebook.

"Jeremiah is now safely in His arms. His warm and kind spirit must now guide us to collectively move forward as one city, one community, one State as Jeremiah was chosen and selected before he was born to bring us all together."

The city of Greenville has proclaimed Nov. 15 as Jeremiah Williams Day.

09/16/2018

This statue is called "Emptiness" and was created by a grieving parent. It describes how a parent feels after losing a child.

08/17/2018

She served the Lord in every aspect of her life. She was a Pastor at her church and that's the way she wanted to be remembered.

She served the Lord in every aspect of her life. She was a Pastor at her church and that's the way she wanted to be remembered. Services by Mario E. Kilpatrick for Trinity Memorial Funeral Services. This Tribute blanket is being given to the family in lieu of her absence. May it become an heirloom and honor her service to the Lord.