TimeX^hronicle’ features trip
back in time
by Mary Ellen McKown, Contributor
During Spring Fling, the junior class
will sponsor a booth featuring The Time
Chronicle.
This computer printout will display
different facts about a certain day in his
tory. This is a great idea for someone’s
birthday or anniversary.
The Chronicle includes: headlines of
the month, a consumer price index (did
you know that a new Ford cost $780.00
on November 11, 1911 and that the aver
age for a new home was only $3,395.00?),
commodities, sports news, the Arts, and
plitics.
The Chronicle comes on a sheet of
paper for $1. For $2 it can be made to
look like a birthday or anniversary card.
Get your dates ready, and come join
the fun on April 20 at the island!
Correction
The Meredith Herald apologizes for incorrectly listing Kimberly May
and Mollie Ashe, class marshalls, as honor council representatives in the
“Third slate elections results posted” article in the April 7 issue. The
correct honor council representatives from the sophomore class are
Connie Bates and Sharon Edwards.
Sense of loss eased by funeral
director
Continued from page 3
charge papers if your father was
in the service, his social security
number and the inner and outer
garments you wish him to be bur
ied in. Are you all right? Good.
Do you wish to have the body
embalmed? Okay. I’ll see you at
10:00 a.m. today. Good-by.”
When the family arrives, Barbour
greets them and escorts them to the
arrangements room. It is a comfortable
place decorated in warm earth-tone
colors: orange, beige and green. “We try
to create a homey atmosphere —
nothing stark or dreary,” Barbour said.
An itemized list of the services and-
merchandise available to the family lies
on the table in front of the sofa where
the family usually sits. All funeral direc
tors are now required by law to gcKOver
all prices with the family. A purchase
agreement must be signed at the end of
the first meeting. This procedure can be
very difficult for the family, but must be
endured, according to Barbour.
While the family discussed funeral
arrangements with Barbour, the
deceased is being embalmed in another
room and prepared for visitation. The
embalming process involves flushing the
blood which disinfects and preserves the
body. Barbour has a funeral service
license which enables him not only to
arrange funerals but to embalm as well.
Most funeral directors have this license.
When Barbour is not working with a
family, he is usually in the embalming
room. The embalming process takes
between one-and-a-half to two hours.
Once the funeral arrangements are
covered, Barbour asks the family to
make a casket selection. This is often
the hardest part for the family, accord
ing to Barl)our.
“It is often when it hits them for the
first time that they are really going to
have to bury their loved one. I have had
people walk in the casket selection room
and faint. 1 always tell them to let me
know if they feel uneasy and they can
come back later,” Barbour said.
Upon entering the selection room,
Barbour changes hats. He becomes a
salesman, but he says he never pushes
anything on anyone. “1 never encourage
anyone to purchase a casket they can
not afford,” Barbour said.
He walks through the room slowly
describing the 24 caskets in the room
and answering a|l questions. One can
choose from a hardwood casket with
velvet or rough cloth interior or a metal
casket of the same interior. Barbour
prefers the hardwoods because of their
“warmth and beauty.” The casket prices
range from $245 to $5100. During the
selection process, Barbour accommo
dates the family in every way, going as
far as to remove his coat and lay it in
the casket to let the family see how that
color coordinates with the interior.
After explaining the casket materials
and prices, Barbour excuses himself
from the room to give the family time
to choose the casket they want.
Then the family is asked to choose a
burial vault in which the casket will be
placed before it is buried. The burial
vault protects the casket and supports
the weight of the earth on top of it. Bur
ial vaults range in price from $595 to
$9350.
The first meeting with the family,
which involves the funeral arrange
ments, casket selection and burial vault
selection, usually takes between one and
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three hours. Barbour remains in close
contact with the family throughout the
entire funeral process from the first
meeting to the visitation of friends and
family to the actual funeral and burial.
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counseling services available through
Brown-Wynne.
The funeral process is not only a
burden emotionally, but also financially.
Barbour is aware of this, but regards the
funeral as a “necessary service.”
“Funerals are for the living not for
the dead. It meets the psychological,
theological, and sociological needs of
the survivors,” said Barbour who is cur
rently working on a thesis which deals
with how funerals meet these needs. The
thesis will be applied toward higher cer
tification in his field.
Funeral directors operate under the
belief that “when you share love, it will
increase, and when you share grief, it
diminishes,” Barbour said, quoting
Howard Raether, a retired board
member of the National Funeral Direc
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