In This Section...
After the funeral, we stay with you. We realize that death is one of life's most traumatic experiences; it is a painful wound that heals differently for everyone. We want you to know our entire staff is here for you. We provide reading materials and in this section is a list of local, regional and national not-for profit support groups. Also, it is our policy to follow up with our families within a month after the funeral. And at all times, we listen...and we care.

If you wish to receive any of the following brochures, please click the brochure and you will be taken to an order form. There is no cost for receiving single brochures, however for more than 15 copies, please contact us directly.

Why Choose A Family Owned Firm

Discusses the many advantages to choosing a family-owned firm as opposed to the large conglomerate owned firms.

A Detailed Guide To Organizing Your Affairs

This booklet is designed for you to record your wishes, and is an integral part of estate planning. It provides helpful checklists and discusses pre-arrangement.

Choosing a Funeral Ceremony

A funeral ceremony is a way to commemorate your loved ones life. It discusses the important and value of a funeral and the types of ceremonies that may occur.

What Can We Do To Help?

Explains what the clergy, the funeral director, friends and family can do to help survivors' cope with the death of a loved one.

A Caring Response to an AIDS Related Death

Provides straightforward answers to commonly asked questions, plus information on support services available to survivors and those with AIDS.

Anatomical Gifts

This generous gesture is described after death occurs. The brochure also discusses life saving organ donation.

Talking with Children about Death

In this booklet, Mr. Rogers eases fears about how to speak to young children about death. He provides meaningful answers to commonly asked questions and feelings.

Will I Ever Stop Hurting - A Parent's Grief

Losing a child can devastate a family. This is a compassionate and helpful brochure for someone who has lost a child.

A Guide To Detailed Funeral Planning

Answers commonly asked questions when deciding to pre-arrange your funeral. It discusses advance decisions, costs, funding possibilities and other questions regarding pre-arrangement.

Embalming

Answers commonly asked questions when deciding to pre-arrange your funeral. It discusses advance decisions, costs, funding possibilities and other questions regarding pre-arrangement.

Grief: A Time to Heal

Grief is a natural response to losing someone who was important to you. This brochure provides informatoin on reacations to death and provides ways to cope with the death of a loved one.

SecurChoice

You and your loved ones can have peace of mind by taking the time now to make your wishes known. SecurChoice is a pre-arranged funeral program. This brochure defines the components of this program.

Cremation Options

Describes options that are available when choosing cremation. It answers commonly asked questions about cremation and includes a helpful checklist.

Wiedeman Funeral Home and Fackler-Wiedeman Funeral Home

This is our general information brochure, which describes the types of services and merchandise that we offer.

Living When Your Spouse Has Died

Offers a compassionate insight for widows and widowers on coping with their loss.

Cremation and Its Options

This brochure defines cremation and explores the many options that are available to people when choosing cremation. It is a way to honor life.

Funeral Service and Hospice: Mutual Concern, Cooperation and Care

Defines Hospice, Hospice care and costs related to Hospice care. It also describes the relationship between Hospice and the funeral ceremony and the relationship with the funeral director.

How Much Does a Funeral Cost?

Reviews all that needs to be included in a funeral and why they cost what they do. There is a funeral worksheet included.

photo coming soon Personalization Options

This brochure describes the many options that are available to you to make funeral services unique and personal.

photo coming soon Grief and the Holidays

The holidays may be a difficult time for those who have recently lost a loved one. It can be a time filled with many different emotions ranging from sadness to anger and frustration and perhaps even some happiness. This brochure offers you just one thing or several things that can make the holidays a little easier for you.

Mosaic of Memories

Compliments of the American Cancer Society and the National Funeral Directors Association, this brochure describes the online resource that enables individuals and families to create personal memorials to honor their loved ones lost to cancer.  Click here for more information about his program.

Honoring Your Loved One's Memory

Compliments of the American Cancer Society and the National Funeral Directors Association, this brochure describes several suggestions for ways that families can select a charity to memorialize their loved one.

Coping with Loss

Compliments of the American Cancer Society and the National Funeral Directors Association, this brochure describes ways to cope with your loss. It also offers suggestions and useful information for different types of losses.

Helping Children Cope with Death

Communicating about loss is hard for children and adults. And so, we perpetuate the conspiracy of silence because we don't know what to say or maybe even realize that we can say something.  This brochure offers helpful advice for adults to comfortably discuss death with children and provides signs that children may exhibit during grief.

Beginning the Healing Process..How a Traditional Funeral Can Help

Funerals are not just a ceremony to honor those who have died. Funerals are also an important ritual that helps survivors start working through their loss by sharing with those around them. This brochure discusses the benefits of a traditional funeral.

Healing After the Loss of A Loved One

Compliments of the American Cancer Society and the National Funeral Directors Association, this brochure describes ways to cope with your loss. Healing begins after facing your grief, and realizing that you are not alone. The loss of a loved one is perhaps the most difficult and emotionally intense event we experience.

Planning Your Funeral In Advance

Compliments of the American Cancer Society and the National Funeral Directors Association, this brochure describes the advantage of advance funeral planning. Planning is a part of life. You plan for your first home, your child's education and your retirement. Having and keeping an organised plan is helpful toward being prepared and living comfortable in the future.

Planning a Meaningful Funeral Service

Compliments of the American Cancer Society and the National Funeral Directors Association, this brochure describes ways to plan a meaningful funeral service. No two lives are exactly the same, and no two funeral services should be either. This brochure also includes a helpful worksheet to help collect thoughts and special memories.

Books

In addition to our brochures, we also offer a complete line of books in our library that are available on a two-week loan. Please email us for further information and availability. Below is a listing of the books that we presently have available. (last updated: 03/04)

  • Children Are Not Paper Dolls
  • Concerning Death: A Practical Guide for the Living
  • Cremation
  • Death, the Final Stage of Growth
  • Explaining Death to Children
  • For The Living
  • Helping Children Cope with Grief
  • How to Survive the Loss of a Love
  • How It Feels When a Parent Dies
  • I Heard the Owl Call My Name
  • I Want to Help, But I Don't Know How
  • Letting Go with Love
  • Living Through Personal Crisis
  • Living When a Loved One has Died
  • Living with Dying
  • On Death and Dying
  • Suicide - Prevention, Intervention, Postvention
  • Talk to God...I'll Get the Message
  • Talking About Death
  • Telling A Child About Death
  • The LAST Teenage Suicide
  • The Way We Die
  • The Christian Funeral
  • The Denial of Death
  • Thumpy's Story: A Story of Love and Grief Shared
  • Time Remembered - A Journal For Survivors
  • To Live Until We Say Goodbye
  • When a Family Loses a Loved One
  • When Pregnancy Fails

Web Links

Laminated Obituary Order

Please click here to download a copy of the order form for additional copies of your loved one's obituary. Laminated copies cost $2.50 each. You can fax (717) 939-199 or mail the completed form.