Sunbury Funeral Home

02/18/2026

Celebrate the life of Joan Arbeau and join others in sharing memories, stories, and condolences.

02/16/2026

Sharing with Memory Boards

Memory boards are a wonderful way to share important moments from the life of a departed loved one. They frequently appear as backdrops at visitations and sometimes are even present at a funeral service or reception.

It’s about remembering, and what better tool than a photo display. These become instruments to initiate conversations. “I didn’t know they had military service.” Or, “I wasn’t aware they had such a nice garden.” Sharing these memories is one way to acknowledge key events from the life of a beloved.

Memory boards can also include formal documents such as a graduation certificate, ticket stubs to music concerts or sporting events, a meaningful piece of poetry or perhaps even a handwritten note from the departed. Sometimes attendees are encouraged to write a special note to the family remembering a story about the deceased. These are then attached to a memory board.

With the advent of multimedia, in some instances, photo memory boards are being replaced by photo tributes which air on flat screen televisions. That being said, including a physical memory board is sure to provide a certain charm when remembering and paying tribute to someone special who has passed.

If you have a question about using a memory board at a service, please contact us.

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02/13/2026

Please Share: Petition (read below)
In a practice commonly referred to as obit scraping or obit piracy, third party websites are copying obit information from funeral home websites and adding modified death notices to their own platform. This practice is done without the family’s or funeral home’s approval.

Additionally, they are selling online memorial products and profiting from this practice.

A petition is underway to gauge public interest to see if this practice should be ceased. To indicate you wish current legislation changed to protect grieving families, please see the below link and sign: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6997

02/11/2026

Winter Burials

A question which we are often asked at this time of year is if burials occur year-round.

Some cemeteries provide year-round interment (burial services) to their communities. Their staff is full time, and not seasonal, and they have the proper equipment to tend to this responsibility throughout the year. Typically, these are larger private or municipal cemeteries where hundreds of interment services are performed annually.

Smaller, rural cemeteries may offer year-round interment, but typically this isn’t the case. In this instance, burials occur in the spring. The casket is kept in a secure location in the interim.

The interment of a cremation urn, despite its smaller size, is also dependent on the cemetery where it will be placed at. Again, larger cemeteries provide year-round interment services and smaller rural or church cemeteries only provide interment in non-winter months.

If you need further information about year-round interment of either a casket or an urn, please contact us. We have close working relationships with cemeteries in the area and based on our experience with them over the years, know what their capabilities are.

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02/09/2026

Celebrate the life of Gertrude Maynard and join others in sharing memories, stories, and condolences.

02/06/2026

02/02/2026

February is Heart Month in Canada

The Government of Canada officially recognizes February as Heart and Stroke month. About 2.4 million Canadian adults have heart disease, which is the second leading cause of death in Canada. Heart month wants us to be aware of the importance of good cardiovascular health.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation is a key partner in fighting heart disease. Donations help fund research projects which have led to countless breakthroughs. There are currently more than 700 researchers who receive funding from the foundation.

The foundation also is an educator about heart disease prevention strategies and a provider of information about healthy lifestyle choices. Funding also assists individuals and families following heart surgeries and treatments.

Each February, Heart and Stroke runs it’s annual fundraising campaign. Your generosity helps prevent heart disease and saves lives.

For more information, please visit:
https://www.heartandstroke.ca

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01/28/2026

Keeping it Simple

With good intentions, sometimes those who grieve and those who support them can overthink their actions. They don’t want to be an imposition. They don’t want to cause undue worry. In doing so, vital communication, which is so urgently needed in times such as these, doesn’t occur.

This following contemporary advice script which occurs on many present-day memes is so straight forward, it’s simple.

Why Complicate Life?
Missing someone?..................... Call.
Wanna meet up?.........................Invite.
Wanna be understood?............. Explain.
Have questions?..........................Ask.
Don’t like something?………….Say it.
Like something?.........................State it.
Want something?.......................Ask for it.
Love someone?..........................Show them.

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01/27/2026

Celebrate the life of Lester Nason and join others in sharing memories, stories, and condolences.

01/23/2026

Celebrate the life of Hilda Ball and join others in sharing memories, stories, and condolences.

01/23/2026

Matthew O’Reilly is a veteran emergency medical technician on Long Island, New York. In this talk, O’Reilly describes what happens next when a gravely hurt patient asks him: “Am I going to die?”

01/22/2026

Celebrate the life of Arthur Perry and join others in sharing memories, stories, and condolences.