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- Make appointment with the funeral home. Call us at 330-534-1952.
The funeral home will help coordinate arrangements
with the cemetery. Some information to complete the state vital
statistic requirements.
- Birth Date
- Birthplace
- Father's Name
- Mother's Maiden Name
- Social Security Number
- Veteran's Discharge Papers or Claim Number
- Education
- Marital Status
- Contact your clergy. Decide on the time and place of the funeral
or memorial service. This can be done at the funeral home.
- The funeral home will assist you in determining the number of
copies of the death certificate you will be needing and can order
them for you.
- Make a list of immediate family, close friends and employer
or business colleagues. Notify each by phone.
- Decide on an appropriate memorial to which gifts may be made
(church, hospice, library, charity or school).
- Gather obituary information, including age, place of birth,
cause of death, occupation, college degrees, memberships held,
military service, outstanding work , list of survivors in immediate
family and give time and place of services. The funeral home will
normally write the article and submit this to the appropriate
newspapers (most newspapers will accept a picture and they will
be returned intact).
- Arrange for members of family or close friends to take turns
answering the door or phone, keeping a careful record of calls.
- If Social Security checks are direct deposit, notify the bank
of the death.
- Coordinate the supplying of food for the next several days.
- Consider special need of the household, such as cleaning, etc.,
which might be done by friends.
- Arrange for child care, if necessary.
- Arrange hospitality for visiting relatives and friends.
- Select pallbearers and notify the funeral home. (Avoid anyone
with heart or back difficulties, or make them honorary pallbearers).
- Plan for the disposition of flowers after the funeral (church,
hospital or nursing home)
- Prepare a list of out of town family and friends to be notified
by letter and/or printed notice, and decide which to send to each.
- Prepare a list of persons to receive acknowledgments of flowers,
calls, etc. Send appropriate acknowledgments (written note, printed
acknowledgments, or some of each). Include "thank you's"
to those who have given their time as well.
- Notify insurance companies.
- Locate the will and notify the lawyer and executor.
- Check carefully all life and casualty insurance and death benefits,
including Social Security, credit union, trade union, fraternal,
and military arrangements. Check on income for survivors from
these sources.
- Check promptly on all debts and installment payments, including
credit cards. Some may carry insurance clauses that will cancel
them. If there is to be a delay in meeting payments, consult with
the creditors and ask for more time before the payments are due.
- If the deceased was living alone, notify utility companies and
landlord and tell post office where to forward mail.
- The Funeral Director will prepare Social Security Form SSA 721.
Check with the Social Security office to see that the number is
retired.
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