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Preplanning Checklist

The following checklist will help you create your personalized plan.

 

Ways to Plan Ahead:

 

General

  • Gather personal information for your obituary.
  • Choose a charity to direct donations to, if desired.
  • Choose a funeral home.
  • Make note of any instructions for your services and final disposition.

Funeral Service

  • Choose burial or cremation.
  • Select a casket or cremation container.
  • Choose locations and types of services.
  • Choose floral arrangements.
  • Select which photographs and memorabilia you’d like to display.
  • Consider any customs, traditions, or religious rites that are important to you and your family.
  • Choose the clothing you’d like to be dressed in.
  • Select music and hymns, if desired.
  • Choose a theme for decorations and stationery at your services.

Participants

  • Choose a clergy member or officiator to preside over the service.
  • Select any musicians whose talents you’d like to employ.
  • Select pallbearers.
  • Choose friends or family members to perform the eulogy, read scripture, or prepare a speech.

Final Resting Place

  • Choose a cemetery.
  • Select a burial plot or mausoleum.
  • Select a memorial or grave marker and inscription.
  • Decide who will keep your urn.
  • Decide who will scatter your ashes and where.

Information You'll Need


Personal Information

  • Basic "Vital Statistical" Information, including date and place of birth, current home address and phone number, Social Insurance Number, Occupation (prior to retirement)
  • Your father’s name and birthplace
  • Your mother’s name including maiden name, and birthplace

Other Information and Items

  • Information to be included in an obituary (family members' names, interests and achievements, designations etc.)
  • Void cheque for payment information if applicable
  • Cemetery/Crematory paperwork

Remember...


There’s no need to make all the decisions right away. For personalized assistance in creating your plan, contact one of our experts to schedule a one-on-one meeting.

Our Planning Guide

Kitching, Steepe & Ludwig Funeral Home
Phone: (905) 689-4852
146 Mill Street North, P.O. Box 184, Waterdown, ON L0R 2H0

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