INTRODUCTION OF NEW VIDEO TRIBUTE PROGRAM
Stark-Welin Funeral Directors is pleased to announce the addition of our new Video Tribute program. Since its' founding in 1888, Stark-Welin Funeral Directors has continued to provide the most personal and meaningful funeral services available. The addition of our new Video Tribute program is yet another result of that mission and is an exclusive offering to the families we serve.
The Video Tribute program allows us to create a memorable video collage of pictures that will celebrate the living of a life. To the collection of photos provided by the family, we will add music and use transitional interludes to fade from one picture into another. The Video Tribute re-lives cherished memories and celebrates a life that was lived. It creates a keepsake video for family and loved ones to enjoy for years to come. The Video Tribute is one of the most engaging and compelling memorial services we offer.
Your Video Tribute will open with a tasteful moving introduction celebrating the life of your loved one. Watch with fondness as early childhood, the discovery of youth, the excitement of adulthood, the responsibility of working years, family, vacations, retrospection of retirement and cherished life photos slowly appear through the customized scenes. Photos of your loved one appear creatively before your eyes as you relive those beautiful memories, all set to a wonderfully moving musical arrangement.
Your Video Tribute will help you remember; a key element in the healing process of grief. It will assist you and your family in moving from a “relationship of presence” to a “relationship of memory” in the comfort of your own home. What better way to pay tribute to your loved one than sharing on video the wonderful moments, which made their life so special. What a beautiful and lasting remembrance to pass on to other generations, especially the younger ones, when the memories are starting to fade.
The Video Tribute is a memorial that you can take home and play anytime you like, share with family who were unable to attend the service or watch on the Internet at our website www.starkwelin.com .
Stark-Welin Funeral Directors provide the Video Tribute at "no additional cost" for all families who wish to accept the service at their time of need. Families who have accepted this offer have expressed to us how meaningful it was.
We invite you to visit the obituary link on our web site and view a Video Tribute by clicking on the obituary you wish to view and then clicking on the "view video tribute" link. Celebrate in the memory of your loved one.
CAN MUSIC FROM A CD BE USED IN A VIDEO TRIBUTE
The disappointing answer to this request is “NO”. Our funeral home’s BMI, ASCAP, SESAC and SOCAN licenses allow us to play music in our funeral home over our sound system, but “do not” include the right to “synchronize” music to produce a video or publish it on the Internet. Unfortunately, “popular” music found on a CD and often times requested by the family cannot be used to produce a Video Tribute unless the appropriate music licenses have been negotiated with both the recording company and the composer.
All of the music used by Stark-Welin Funeral Directors, in the production of our Video Tribute, is fully licensed allowing us to play the Video Tribute in our funeral home, on the Internet or make copies of the Video Tribute to be given to the family and their friends.
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Lydia Deal | ||
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| Lydia Deal, 92, formerly of 113 Fremont Street in Boone passed away at the Boone County Hospital on Friday morning, October 2, 2009. She had been a resident at the Evangelical Free Church Home in Boone for the past 3 years.
She was born on December 6, 1916 in Brainard, Nebraska the daughter of Frank and Anna (Cejka) Smolik. On May 28, 1960, she married Glen A Deal at Osage, Iowa. Lydia was a graduate of Little Cedar High School near Osage, Iowa. In 1935, at the age of 18, she came to the Boone Biblical College in Boone where she taught school for 52 years. During that time, she attended the University of Northern Iowa where she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Education. Lydia enjoyed gardening and tending to her flowers, was an avid reader, and was a very generous and giving person, especially to children. She was a member of the Boone Biblical Memorial Church, where she taught Sunday school, and was politically active and supportive of the Republican Party. Her parents; husband Glen in February of 1983; 4 brothers, Ed, George, Ernest and Ray; and 3 sisters Helen, Libby and Adeline preceded her in death. Survivors include her step-son, Richard Deal of Ames; 1 brother Duane Smolik of San Jose, California; several nieces and nephews. Services will be held on Thursday morning, October 8th at 10:30 a.m. at the Boone Biblical Memorial Church in Boone with Rev. Bruce Thomas officiating. Interment will be in Highland Memory Gardens in Des Moines, Iowa. Visitations will be held on Thursday morning at the Church from 9:00 a.m. until the time of the service. Those wishing to express their sympathies through a memorial may direct their gift to the Boone Biblical Ministries. | ||
