A while back a blogger friend at Far Side of Fifty blog made a post about a Funeral Book and I was surprised to learn that some commenters didn't know what that was. I assumed that was a normal thing that the family got when they planned a funeral. But I guess it's not. So not only am I sharing a funeral book but also my funeral box. But first the Funeral Book.
A Funeral Book for those that don't know is a book that the funeral home gives you with the name and information of the family member you are having the funeral for. The book is left out so that guests can sign their name also.
This is my mom's Funeral Book. This page is the Pallbearers- the people who carrier her casket at her funeral.
A list of her family on this page.
People at the funeral who signed the book.
There are poems that we the family picked out throughout the book.
Her information like her birthdate and where she was born is also in the book. It's a nice memento to keep.
I mentioned I have a funeral box. I just call it that because it's filled with mementos of family members who have passed on. I kept their birth certificates, death certificates, funeral book if I have it, floral cards and wallets-just how they left them at the time of their deaths.
These are my mom's floral cards. They are the cards that were attached to any flowers that were sent from family and friends to the funeral.
These are my grandfathers floral cards.
I also have the wallets of my mom, grandfather and my late husband. My step father didn't have a wallet but I have the ID cards he had in his pocket. My daughter told me I should make up a wallet of my own to put in the box of some old ID's and such in case something happens to the wallet I have on me at the time of my death. It might sound creepy to others but I have started putting together a wallet to add to this box. My daughter likes the idea of that type of momento too.
Do you keep these types of mementos?
