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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Esther Sunstrom | ||
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| On October 1, 2009, Esther Sunstrom passed away peacefully in her sleep at the Evangelical Free Church Home where she and her husband, Frank, had resided for the past five years.
Esther Lucille Goodman was born in Colfax, Iowa on October 31, 1914 to Oscar and Ellen (Larson) Goodman. Raised in Madrid, Esther graduated from Madrid High School then attended the University of Iowa and the University of Colorado in Boulder. She taught in rural and consolidated schools in Boone County until serving as Deputy County Superintendent of Schools for the ninety-nine country schools in Boone County. On December 9, 1943, she married Dr. Frank F. Sunstrom, a Boone native. Following their marriage, they lived three years in the Oceanside, California area during Frank’s tour of duty as a Naval dentist. Following World War II, they returned to Boone where Dr. Sunstrom practiced dentistry for the next 42 years. They raised two children, Lynn and Jon. Esther served on the Women’s Auxiliary to the Iowa State Dental Association for six years, serving in all offices and finally as state president. She also served as International Chairman of Dental Health and on the Council for the Madrid Home. A member of the Augustana Lutheran Church, Esther was active in guild work and Sewing Club. A life long learner, Esther was a sixty-one year member of Chapter DD, P.E.O., a member of Lowell Study Club and Nathan Boone Questers, and served as a guide at the Mamie Eisenhower Birthplace. An avid reader, she also loved to knit, play bridge, golf, follow the Iowa Hawkeyes, and travel with her husband. She most enjoyed spending time with her family, especially at their cabin in Minnesota. Preceding Esther into eternal life are her parents, Oscar and Ellen Goodman; her brother, Otto (Mary) Goodman; sister Anna (Tali) Jones and twin sister Edith (John) Turner. She is survived by her husband Frank Sunstrom; daughter and son-in-law, Lynn and John Johnson of Boone; son and daughter-in-law Dr. Jon and Deborah Sunstrom of Boone; grandchildren Jeff Johnson of Seattle, Washington, Joe Johnson of Boone, Anna Sunstrom and Wil Sunstrom both of Boone; great-granddaughter, Dory; nephew J.D. Turner of Savannah, Georgia and niece Audrey Mills of Grinnell. Services will be held on Wednesday afternoon, October 7th at 1:00 p.m. at the Evangelical Free Church Home Chapel in Boone with Pastor Dick Dahle officiating. Interment will be in the Linwood Park Cemetery in Boone. Friends may call at the Stark-Welin Chapel on Tuesday evening from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., with the family present from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. to greet friends and again on Wednesday morning from 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. when the casket will be taken to the Evangelical Free Church Home Chapel where visitations will continue from 10:30 a.m. until the time of service. Those wishing to express their sympathies through a memorial may direct their gift to the Augustana Lutheran Church; American Cancer Society; or P.E.O. Foundation, P.E.O. Executive Office, 1700 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50312-2899. | ||
