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Traditional Services

Today's funeral services have evolved through the years as a result of our instinctive wish to honor our dead. At different periods in history, in different cultures, funeral customs have developed in characteristic ways. But always, the funeral serves many purposes. It symbolizes the beliefs of the society, its hopes, its ideals1 and its religious concepts.

Funeral service in the future is about getting in touch with the attitudes and values of people. It is more and more about the celebration of long life, and about the helping of people at the end of life And, this includes arrangements for people who are dealing with the end of their own lives It is about honor, dignity, love, respect, memories, and humor It is about faith, religion, ritual, music, homily, ceremony and procession. It is about beautiful and tasteful surroundings and appropriate amenities, It is about remembrance and memoralization.

It is about putting all of the services and the products that are associated with funeral service into context. It is about preserving the best of tradition. This starts with the word service. Our goal is to be there for you and your family at the time of any loss, to assist with the needs that arise when a loved one dies. Our funeral home has prided itself on the individual attention and more importantly the ability to offer a professional service in homelike surroundings.

We offer customized or individualized services, which begin with convenience, convenience of location, arrangements, scheduling, and convenience of the funeral itself. We recognize the need for formal services and informal services, elegant services, and simple services, solemn services and casual services, long services and short services, open-casket services and closed-casket services and, more and more, individualized services.

Being a full service funeral home we offer all service types. With more and more inquiries about cremation services, its section was designed to help families determine what type of service fills their needs.


Appleyard's Home for Funerals, Inc.
19 W. Messenger Street, Rice Lake, WI 54868
Phone: (715)234-6400 E-mail: info@AppleyardsOnline.com

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