Community Links

It is amazing how people come together at the time of a death. Many local businesses and organizations make themselves available to families during their time of need.

We will continue to grow the list and make you aware of these businesses and organizations that open their arms to those in a time when a death occurs within the community.

Accommodations

Please visit our local accommodations that we have provided for your convenience. You may wish to contact them directly to find out their rates and availability.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Restaurants

If you're looking for a relaxing setting for a meal or something on the run, Midwest City restaurants offer just that. Some of the restaurants offer a cozy dinning room setting or you can eat outside on their patios, weather permitting. The menu's have something for everyone including a complete selection of steaks, chicken and pasta as well as a children's menu. If you would like to call ahead to book a reservation, we have conveniently provided you with addresses and phone numbers.

Flower Shops

In Midwest City we have florists who have skilled arrangers that are highly qualified to suit your floral arrangement needs. The flower selections that these florist have created have received great reviews from the local population and their sympathy arrangements are tasteful and give you something to remember.

Cemeteries

At a cemetery, lives are commemorated, deaths are recorded, families are reunited, memories are made tangible and love is undisguised. Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.

Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life - not death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.A cemetery is a history of people; a perpetual record of yesterday and a sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because every life is worth remembering - always.As a convenience we have included a listing of many of the local cemeteries in our area. A growing number of cemeteries are beginning to publish their own web sites to allow visitors to learn more about their services, fees and applicable bylaws.

Midwest City

Spencer

Del City

Harrah

Jones

Oklahoma City

Norman

Elgin

Ft. Gibson

Newalla

Newspaper Guidelines

There are many ways to say farewell from formal funeral services to private home-setting celebrations. They all form a part of the way we say goodbye. Obituaries or death notices, however, are a public way we share our final farewell celebration. It is part of the way we say goodbye - the public posting of final words. Some obituaries indicate much thought and much reflection on the life that was lived.

A death notice is a minimal amount or notice. An obituary is usually a more detailed account of a person's life and is often prepared for the newspaper from a form that the family fills out. Obituaries are a written form of collective remembrances. They remind us of others as well as ourselves - parents or grandparents of friends, the young suddenly departing, the loss of `valiant struggles' against diseases not yet conquered.

When community members leave, whether we know them personally or not, we mark their time with us by publicly commemorating their passing. The final words are one way we say goodbye and the way we will remember. These final words are often the way survivors pay tribute, perhaps make amends, and express hope for immortality.