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“ Part of the Sussex Community since 1893 ”
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"Service
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When a death occurs:
For the Survivor:
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Make a list of
immediate family, close friends and employer or
business colleagues. Notify each by phone.
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Make an appointment
with the funeral home. The funeral home will
help coordinate arrangements with the cemetery.
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Contact your clergy.
Decide on time and place of funeral or memorial
service. This can be done at the funeral home.
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Consider any
religious rites that are needed.
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Arrange for
appropriate clothes, jewellery and hairstyle for
your loved one.
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The funeral home
will provide you with the number of copies of
the funeral director's statements of death you
will be needing to close a persons affairs.
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Wallace Funeral Home offers expert advice and assistance with your
end-of-life planning.
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Wallace Funeral Home provides tribute
options, for honouring and celebrating lives that have
been lived.
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We are pleased to offer our facilities &
community Chapel for your "celebration of life"
ceremony. more |
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Wallace Funeral Home will help you with
funeral arrangements and memorial service planning.
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Wallace Funeral Home is pleased to
provide community bereavement services to help you in
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Some information which will be needed for the
funeral director to register the death with the NB government:
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Full Name
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Address
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Date and Place of Birth
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Date and Place of Death
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Father's Name and Place of
Birth
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Mother's Maiden Name and
Place of Birth
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Medicare Number
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Occupation
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Marital Status
Some helpful reminders:
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Decide on appropriate
memorial to which gifts may be made (church, hospice, library, charity or
school).
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Gather obituary
information, including age, place of birth, cause of death, occupation,
college degrees, memberships held, military service, outstanding work, list
of survivors in immediate family, give time and place of services. The
funeral home will normally write an article and submit this to the newspapers
and their website.
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Arrange for members of
family or close friends to take turns answering the door and phone, keeping
a careful record of those who called.
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Coordinate the supplying of
food for the next several days.
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Consider any special needs of
the household, such as cleaning, etc., which might be done by friends
offering to help.
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Arrange for child care, if
necessary.
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Arrange hospitality for
visiting relatives and friends.
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Select pallbearers and
notify the funeral home. (Avoid anyone with heart or back difficulties, or
make them honorary pallbearers).
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Plan for disposition of
flowers after funeral (church, hospital or rest home)
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Prepare a list of distant
persons to be notified by letter and/or printed notice, and decide which to
send to each.
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Prepare list of persons to
receive acknowledgments of flowers, calls, etc. Send appropriate
acknowledgments (this can be a written note, printed acknowledgments, or some of
each). Include "thank you" to those who have given their time as well.
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If Social Security checks
are automatic deposit, notify the bank of the death.
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Notify insurance companies.
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Locate the will and notify
lawyer and executor.
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Check carefully all life
and casualty insurance and death benefits, including Social Security, credit
union, trade union, fraternal, and military. Check also on income for
survivors from these sources.
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Check promptly on all debts
and instalment payments, including credit cards. Some may carry insurance
clauses that will cancel them. If there is to be a delay in meeting
payments, consult with creditors and ask for more time before the payments
are due.
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If deceased was living
alone, notify utilities and landlord and tell post office where to send
mail.
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We believe a life lived is a life worth remembering.
Wallace Funeral Home & Community Chapel is Locally owned
and independently operated.
Our pledge: "To offer
the experience, dignity and respect that we all deserve at an
affordable price" |
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