by Meghan Henning | May 29, 2020 | Blog Posts
The cemetery office remains open to serve the public. We are currently meeting clients outside of the office to maintain physical distancing and conducting as much paperwork and payments electronically as possible. We are available for pre-need and at-need sales of...
by Meghan Henning | Nov 14, 2019 | Blog Posts
Blog Posts The Lakefield Cemetery will be hosting our 1st Annual Memorial Tree Lighting on December 11th, 2019 at 7:00pm in our new Gazebo on the cemetery grounds. For the Tree Lighting Ceremony we will have a Celebrant on hand to give a non-denominational reflection...
by Meghan Henning | Jun 4, 2019 | Blog Posts, Cemetery in Lakefield, Final Resting Place Lakefield, Information
Annually on the third Sunday in June at the Lakefield Cemetery we celebrate Decoration Day. Decoration Day is a time honoured tradition where families visit the cemetery to pay respects to their loved ones by tidying up gravesites, cleaning cemetery memorials and...
by Meghan Henning | Oct 16, 2018 | Blog Posts, Grief, Information, Memorial Service in Lakefield
We have all heard the term “Fog of Grief”, that hazy, out of focus feeling, felt when we have experienced loss in our life. After the loss of a loved one we are confronted with the task of making many time sensitive decisions that are accompanied by what seems like a...
by Meghan Henning | Aug 20, 2018 | Blog Posts
Cemeteries are more than just places for the dead. Today cemeteries are some of the last remaining protected green spaces open to the public. This means that cemeteries are now being visited not only by living descendants of the deceased but by those wishing to...
by Meghan Henning | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog Posts, Cemetery in Lakefield, Cremation in Lakefield, Final Resting Place Lakefield, Grief, Information, Memorial Service in Lakefield
From our experience we have found that cremation trends and changing attitudes toward the value of traditional services have often left families struggling to plan meaningful graveside services. With traditional burial there is often a finite amount of time between...
