tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post4649959904171143733..comments2024-02-05T18:14:35.019-06:00Comments on Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog: Funeral CustomsBrenda Joyce Jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-58463940560622380112009-08-21T06:12:47.690-05:002009-08-21T06:12:47.690-05:00Great information!!!Funeral customs have tradition...Great information!!!Funeral customs have traditionally varied by religion.I think All funerals have different procedures depending on the deceased persons religion and desires.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.deathcare.com/funeralhomes/index.html" rel="nofollow"> Funeral Homes</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-13403050134408443312009-02-16T14:07:00.000-06:002009-02-16T14:07:00.000-06:00I well remember being a flower girl and seeing mot...I well remember being a flower girl and seeing mother and aunts do the same, back in the 1950s, in Crittenden and Livingston Counties. Also having the viewing at the home where neighbors came and cleaned the house and moved furniture in preparation of the body being returned from the funeral home where it had been prepared for viewing. I remember the smell of cooking in the kitchen as the viewing was taking place in the living room. I have taken many photo's of deceased family members before friends arrived when only the family was present. I grew up with this tradition and never considered this to be unusual. These were normal things we did back in the<BR/>40s and 50s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-55675791064792830172009-01-20T07:02:00.000-06:002009-01-20T07:02:00.000-06:00Unfortunately, some photos were taken of the decea...Unfortunately, some photos were taken of the deceased as it was the only photo of that person (even some of the more elderly had few photos). This was done a lot for infants, especially, new borns. This last is still done to this day... it provides an image to remember the little one.<BR/><BR/>I have never heard of flower girls before, of course, I am so young! <BR/><BR/>My love of genealogy was forever increased from the stories told by family members at funerals. I can only remember some of them, but I remember how the stories would bring that deceased person back to life for a young boy to relish about a grandfather or a cousin of Mom's or Dad's. I wished I had a recorder.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-19761337104913268292009-01-01T18:24:00.000-06:002009-01-01T18:24:00.000-06:00Oh, yes. As a rule, however, now the pictures are ...Oh, yes. As a rule, however, now the pictures are taken privately while the family is not in the room. They are certainly nothing I would want to include in family photo albums or to pass around at a family reunion, but I do have a couple of photos of deceased relatives.Brenda Joyce Jeromehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-40138618141101411772009-01-01T18:04:00.000-06:002009-01-01T18:04:00.000-06:00I am from New York, but my roots and heart are in ...I am from New York, but my roots and heart are in Princeton (the Claxton community to be exact). I remember as a child viewing pictures of my deceased relatives in thier caskets. I have shared this with friends, and they have never heard of such practices. My grandmother made it clear she was not to be photographed when she passed, so we respected that wish and refrained from snapping photos when she died in 2001. I'm curious, do people still practice this odd tradition? What is the point? I just looked at pictures of my deceased great grandparents on my Christmas trip home, and honestly wished I hadn't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-81410641436995694192008-12-11T19:12:00.000-06:002008-12-11T19:12:00.000-06:00Interesting. I didn't realize there were flower gi...Interesting. I didn't realize there were flower girls that late. You may be right about the custom waning when funerals began to be held in funeral homes. My flower girl duties always took place in a country church.Brenda Joyce Jeromehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07878338519744358017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998509848120209824.post-7461247964393747412008-12-11T18:49:00.000-06:002008-12-11T18:49:00.000-06:00In the winter of 1962, a seventh grade classmate a...In the winter of 1962, a seventh grade classmate at Tolu was killed when a tractor flipped. Our class attended the funeral at Glendale Baptist Church. At the conclusion of the service, our teacher indicated that we girls should "go be flower girls", and, with no prior discussion or instruction, marched up to the casket and carried the sprays out to the hearse. That was certainly our first such experience, and in my case, my last time to "be a flower girl". It was far from my last funeral. The custom seems to have waned with the development of funerals in "funeral homes", at least in Southern Illinois and West Kentucky. Years later, fifty miles from "home", that classmate's niece and nephew turned up as students in my classroom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com