Holiday Help Event – 2020 Virtual Message
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As our 15th Annual Holiday Help Event plans developed, we recognized the need to move to a virtual format for 2020. While we will miss seeing …
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Where’s Theresa?
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Where’s Theresa? We hear the question daily at Hansen-Spear, for many reasons. It kind of reminds me of the children’s picture book game, ‘Where’s Waldo?.’ There are …
Read More »Frozen: Holiday Grief
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Each Christmas season, like the first, has a complexity that represents the many dimensions that are part of life’s wholeness: good and bad, joy and sorrow, failure …
Read More »Fathers
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We all have them and this Sunday we celebrate them. It’s the stories that go with them that make them the legends they are. I think a dad’s …
Read More »Be Gentle With Yourself
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The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve can be challenging for those who mourn. Whether it is your very first holiday season without your loved one, …
Read More »Giving Thanks for the One Who Died
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Our first Thanksgiving without Dad was undeniably a hard one. He died in September. Thanksgiving arrived while we were all still raw and numb with grief. It …
Read More »Thoughts about my father, the veteran…
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Thoughts about my father, the veteran, on this 4th of July I always knew that my father was a veteran. He never told ‘war stories’ or such when …
Read More »Easing Loss on Mother’s Day
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For weeks Mother’s Day messages have been everywhere. Advertisements for brunch and luncheon specials, Hallmark card scenarios, fine jewelry and all kinds of retail opportunities from clothing …
Read More »Welcoming the New Year
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‘And now we welcome the New Year, full of things that have never been’ – Rainer Maria Rilke Well, there goes 2014. Another calendar page turned, another …
Read More »Hope for the Holidays
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After the death of a loved one, the holiday season can be particularly challenging. It is a time of year when there are many messages and expectations …
Read More »We cannot thank you enough for your most generous love and support with the passing of our dad. May God continue to bless you and give you His peace to carry on to others with your care, love and hope of strength to continue to serve.
G.H.
This funeral home is head and shoulders above the other funeral homes in this area. They do an excellent service and are highly respected in this community.
S.S.
In-as-much as I married into a fourth generation funeral home family, I had expectations, right or wrong about what to expect. Consequently I want you to know what all of my expectations were met, and then some.
W.R.P.
You were always there for us, lending support, offering suggestions, and yet being unobtrusive. With appreciation to the Spear family – and their ‘crew”.
C.M.
