Archive for March, 2009

I’m proud of my son!

Monday, March 30th, 2009

I’m very pleased to tell you my son (almost 24) is now working full-time at our family funeral home.  He came to this decision after much thought and prayer.  And he has taken to it like a fish to water!  And I couldn’t be more proud!  He represents the fifth generation of our family to help people in grief.  Just think about that… five generations – that doesn’t happen over night!  One thing that I think is neat is that he obviously has seen how much I like what I do – that’s pretty cool!

Daylight Savings Time

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Isn’t it funny that we think we can change time?  Some things never change – not really, and time is one of ‘em.  Something else that doesn’t change is God’s love for us – no matter how ugly we may act towards him, He still loves us just the same.  There’s nothing we can ever do to make Him love us any more or any less.  Wow, just think of that!  When we’re in grief, we may (naturally) become angry with God for a time, but even then, He still loves us just the same.  That feels good, doesn’t it!

Should you plan your own funeral?

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

That depends…  You wanna have a little control over your memorial service?  You wanna make it a bit easier on your survivors?  What about if you don’t neccessarily know what you want, but you know what you don’t want… write it down – we’ll put it on file.  What if you know some, or even most, of what you want, but not everything… then let’s write it down and put it on file – should you later decide the rest, we’ll add it to the file.  What if you change your mind over time – we’ll open the file and change the plans – simple as that.  Did you know planning is free – that’s right… at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey, it’s totally free to plan!  That said… should you want to pay for it, then you pay today’s price, which prevents inflation.  I want you to know we are heavily regulated by the Texas Banking Department, which means if you pay now, which is called ‘Pre-Need’ (among other things), then we are going to dot every single ‘i’ and cross every single ‘t’.  We are going to do it right.  And we’re gonna do it right the first time.  We have an excellent record with the state, and we plan to keep it that way!  Well, anyway… just give it some thought.  I’ve been in charge of making funeral arrangements for my wife and both of her parents – her dad died seventeen years ago today.  All three of those services were planned in advance, which proved to be a very good thing.

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Monday, March 2nd, 2009

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