Planning a Funeral in Waverly, Ohio

Having to arrange a funeral can be one of the most horrible things one will ever have to do in his or her life. First you have the traumatic event of losing a loved one. Then you have all the decisions to make. The only recourse to not having to do this is if we all begin making pre-funeral arrangements now while we are alive and able. But that clearly will not happen because a lot of people do not want to think about their own mortality. The people in Waverly, Ohio, are lucky in the fact that there are a lot of professional people who will help them in this time of grief.

What do you do first after you loose your loved one? You first, of course, contact a funeral home. The funeral homes in Waverly, Ohio have all been in business for many years. They are family run funeral homes that have been passed down from generation to generation. Knowing this, the people of Waverly, know they are getting sympathetic caring people who not only understand how badly you are hurting but they also know how to make the arrangements quick and easier on the family.

The following is the listing of funeral homes in Waverly Ohio:

Botkin Funeral Home: 314 East North Street, Waverly, Ohio. Phone: 740-947-2313

Boyer Funeral Home, 125 W. 2nd Street, Waverly, Ohio, Phone 740-947-2161.

After you decide which funeral home to use, you should contact them, explain what has happen. They will take care of the arrangements of the body and make an appointment for you to come in and make all the rest of the arrangements.

At this scheduled appointment, you will be making decisions on some of the following: what casket to use, what type of music, what type of funeral, what and if you want calling hours (some families choose to have both calling hours the night before the funeral and they day of the funeral), what speakers and ministers you will be using, who will be pall bears (usually there are six), which newspapers you wish the death notice and obituary to be announced, and how you wish them to dress the decease. The clothes are brought in by the family and sometimes they will give the director a picture so the makeup person will know how to fix the decease to make him or he look more natural.