Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Meaningful funerals do not just happen. They are well-thought-out rituals that, at least for a ...

Six years ago, Kelly Avery and Kristin Harper, sisters from Birmingham, Ala., gathered their families by the sky-blue ocean waters of Destin, Fla., to memorialize their mother, Barbara Harper. They ...

SALEM – Stark Memorial Funeral Home will observe National Create the Perfect Funeral Day with a program at 5 p.m. Oct. 30 at the funeral home, 1014 E. State St., in a “heartfelt effort to provide ...

Grief is a journey – and you never know for sure where it'll take you. When Janet Willis' mom passed away from small cell lung cancer in her 70s, Willis said she felt like she lost more than a mother; ...