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October 6 - World Smile Day
Today, is World Smile Day. What memory of your loved one makes you smile?
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Friday, October 6, 2023
October 4 - World Animal Day
On this World Animal Day, we honor the lives of all animals. They bring special gifts to our world. Like Monroe and her handler, Karen Keller, who provide comfort and support at funerals and memori...
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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
October 2 2023
Welcome to this month’s theme of “I Am Gone but Very Near.” We all have our own beliefs about what happens after we die. Some of us believe in Heaven, others in reincarnation, still others in no af...
Monday, October 2, 2023
2023 - September - Centered - Arriving Where I Started
I love the T.S. Eliot quote, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets:
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for t...
Saturday, September 30, 2023
2023 - September - Gazette - Existing Elsewhere
A few years ago I sat with a handful of adults’s in a grief gathering and listened as one mother shared her story. She told us about the moments before and after her young child’s unexpected and su...
Thursday, September 28, 2023
September 25 2023
To close out this month’s posts about “Surrendering Your Soul,” here’s a poem by Antonio Machado that answers the question, is my soul asleep?
Is my soul asleep?
Have those beehives that labor
at ...
Monday, September 25, 2023
September - Suicide Prevention Month
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Mental health advocates, prevention organizations, survivors, allies and community members are uniting to promote suicide prevention awaren...
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Monday, September 18, 2023
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2024 - March - CDT - Helping Hands - A Walk with Grief
A Walk with Grief
I’ve become keenly aware of the dual process model of grief lately. This model involves oscillation between loss-oriented and restoration-oriented responses to grief. Sometimes a...
2024 - March - Gazette - Dad, Death, Daffodils, Ducks, Cardinals, and Comfort
Dad, Death, Daffodils, Ducks, Cardinals, and Comfort ...
My 93-year-old dad died on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. When I left you in my February column, he was working hard to get his strength back aft...
In Honor of Funeral Directors Recognition Day ...
All of the Funeral Directors at Koch Funeral Home, take pride in serving our community!
Wednesdays, April 24, 2024 - A Walk with Grief
Koch Funeral Home has Partnered with Centre Region Parks & Recreation.
A Walk with Grief is not an exercise program but instead a time of coming together with others who are grieving a loss an...
Preplanning Services
Our personalized funeral planning guide is a resource for you when preplanning and/or planning a funeral or memorial service. With help from experts in our area, this guide is a compilation of impo...
March is ... Town & Gown - Heart of the Community Publication
We our proud to honor the men and women in our community and on our staff. Be sure to see them featured in Town & Gown - Heart of the Community!
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