Once you have services for a loved one at funeral homes in Irving, TX, you may feel a sense of closure and finality over the situation. However, that doesn’t mean you have to give up on celebrating their life. You can still do a lot, even after their services are complete, to honor their memory and celebrate a life well-lived. Here are a few ideas of ways you can honor your loved one outside of their services:
Donate To Important Causes
You want your loved one’s memory to remain alive in your life and you can do that by taking some of the things they left behind and donating it to charities that were important to them. If they had a heart for the hungry, clean out their cupboards and take any canned goods, peanut butter jars, and other non-perishables to the local food bank in their honor. Your loved one has passed, but they don’t have to stop helping people.
Make A Quilt
If you are gifted in sewing, or know someone who is, you could take the old t-shirts that meant something to your loved one and make a quilt out of them instead of letting them sit in the back of the closet. Every time you use the quilt, it’s like a giant hug from your loved one. Plus, every time you see the quilt you remember something about them based on one of those old shirts they used to wear. You can tell other people some of those stories when they come by and notice the quilt, too.
Remember The Important Days
Yes, your loved one has passed on, but that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate milestones they would have enjoyed if they were still around. Gather your family together on their birthday and have a cake in their honor. You can share memories, laugh over how many candles there were on the cake last year, and tell stories about your loved one as you celebrate a life well-lived.
Learn A New Skill
Could your loved one crochet? Bake? Golf? Something else you always swore to learn from them, but never did? Now that they are gone, they can’t teach you, but you can still learn. Take up a hobby that they enjoyed in their honor and see how you do at it. You may fail miserably and that’s okay. You’re in it for the right reasons!
When you are trying to honor a loved one, even after their services at funeral homes in Irving, TX, the professionals at Hughes Family Tribute Center can still help with ideas and suggestions. We’ll help you celebrate your loved one’s life during their funeral or cremation service and then beyond that as well. Call us at (214) 350-9951 and we can brainstorm ideas together. If you’d like to meet with our funeral director in person, we welcome that as well. We’re located at 9700 Webb Chapel Rd Dallas, TX 75220 and we can take you on a tour and talk about options together.