The Mystery of the Missing
Funeral Flowers
I had an interesting experience today – it was a first for
me. Colony had a special order for two funeral pieces, a casket piece and a statue
of the Madonna surrounded by flowers. Remember this, it's important. As
planned, we dropped them off at the church for the memorial service. About two hours later, I received a call from
the funeral director who was upset that the flowers hadn’t been delivered and he
asked me, “By the way, why not?”
I assured him that they had been delivered and told him where we left them, the time and other pertinent
details - but the flowers were nowhere to be found. I rushed over to the church
to see if I could help since I knew they had been delivered and couldn’t
imagine what had happened.
It’s hard to believe but it turns out that another family,
who had their service an hour before, must have liked them so much that they
took them. I’m pretty sure they knew that they weren’t theirs - the tags had
the name of the deceased on them and they were not just your average floral arrangements,
they were a casket piece and Madonna. Amazing!
So, the director and I went to the cemetery and waited in
the pouring rain to try and recapture the flowers from the family when they returned
for the burial. I guess they decided to
wait until the showers ended. In the meantime, we quickly made and delivered a replacement
vase so that the family would have some flowers for their service.
It still has me wondering – I can't imagine that something
like that would happen in a church but I guess after all these years nothing
surprises me. It’s probably one funeral I won’t forget.
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