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Friday, December 5, 2014

Calgary Funeral Homes Host Tree Planting Event

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSwfxUpAX4A

Calgary funeral homes McInnis & Holloway host a tree planting event to commemorate and remember lost loved ones. The event was documented by Calgary Herald videographer Lorraine Hjalte in this touching testimonial piece by family members.

A LIVING TRIBUTE: The Memorial Forest ®

The Memorial Forest® program offers a special way of memorializing a person who has died and provides families with a meaningful way to deal with a loss. McInnis & Holloway makes every attempt to find appropriate and lasting ways for loved ones to be remembered. In this case, a tree planted will remain a living memorial for families and friends to return to year after year.

Seven Calgary funeral homes run by McInnis & Holloway have had a five year contract with the City of Calgary to plant trees in our Nose Creek Valley Memorial Forest. This contract ended June of 2005 when the City of Calgary decided not to renew the contract for this area. From the start of this Memorial Forest in the year 2000 we have planted 4,200 trees in Nose Creek Valley which includes the trees planted for our final Ceremony for Nose Creek Valley in 2005.

McInnis & Holloway are fortunate to offer families a Memorial Forest® location in the Burnsmead area located in Fish Creek Provincial Park, (Bow Bottom Trail S.E. South of 146 Avenue S.E. North of Sikome Lake). Each year, families are invited to attend a dedication ceremony for our Memorial Forests.

For dates and times of the dedication ceremony, visit their webite at http://www.mhfh.com/tree-program/

If families wish, any family that was served by McInnis & Holloway have a tree planted in memory of one who has died, at no additional cost to the family. Others can purchase, at a minimal cost, one or more trees to add to the Memorial Forest®, through McInnis & Holloway.

Each purchase includes one tree, its planting and maintenance at the Forest site, and the engraving of the deceased’s name on a permanent granite marker. McInnis & Holloway absorbs all other costs in connection to the Forest.

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