Affinity Funeral Service

12/11/2025

We are Here for You

As we enter the holiday season most everyone takes time to be with those who are near and dear to them. It seems this is the time of the year when the importance of being with loved ones is greater than the hustle and bustle of day-to-day life, and rightly so.

Regrettably, the reality of life and death means that some of us will lose loved ones this holiday season.

This message is to advise that we are here for you. When a loved one dies, regardless of when in the year, we understand that this is a difficult time for their family. We continue to operate throughout the holiday season, though with reduced hours. That being said, if anyone needs to talk with us, we are available to talk with and meet if and when necessary.

If you presently have a family member who is not well, please feel free to contact us in advance to provide basic information so that we are aware of your family’s needs.

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12/10/2025

✨ Thank You for Joining Us ✨
To all the families who attended our Evening of Remembrance, thank you for sharing such a heartfelt and meaningful night with us.

As we lit our candles together, we honored the loved ones we’ve lost and held space for grief, healing, and hope. Your courage, your presence, and your willingness to keep a light shining for those who remain forever in our hearts made the evening truly special.

May the warmth of the candles and the comforting words shared continue to bring you peace and connection in the days ahead.

Take care this holiday season,
- Affinity Funeral Service Team

12/09/2025

View Stanley "Stan" Anthony Kurylo's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

12/09/2025

View Timothy Campbell Losey's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

12/08/2025

Join us for a gentle and heartfelt gathering as we come together to honor the memories of loved ones lost. Light a candle, pause for reflection, enjoy a light refreshment, and find comfort in a shared space of support and remembrance.
💛 All are welcome.

12/08/2025

Serenity Galaxy Spheres
A Beautiful and Unique Way to Memorialize a Loved One

Finding the right way to honour the life of a loved one can be a difficult task. Some families have found comfort with a Serenity Sphere keepsake – a unique blown-glass product that memorializes a loved one in a truly stunning and dignified way.

Canadian company Eternity’s Touch produces a collection of Serenity Galaxy Spheres. Each keepsake is handcrafted with the utmost care and attention; their process involves fusing molten borosilicate glass with cremated remains to create a one-of-a-kind piece of art that will last for generations. A truly unique feature of this product is that it is infused with photoluminescence, which means UV light during the day prompts the sphere to glow in the dark at night. All spheres come with a small stand, creating a beautiful but subtle memorial. They are commonly placed on a mantelpiece, desk or bedside table.

The Serenity Galaxy collection is also available in pendants, earrings, pebbles and beads. Its swirling glass design and reflection of light produces the sensation of a loved one living amongst the stars.

Please contact us for more information about this unique memorial product.

© Affinity Funeral Service/CFHC Online

12/06/2025

Genealogy – Keeping Family History Alive

Genealogy, the study of family history and lineage, has become a popular pastime in recent years. With the interconnectedness of today’s world, it can also be a fun way to bring generations of the family together in a cohesive group activity – exploring and sharing new discoveries, while keeping past history alive.

As each generation passes, history is often lost. But this doesn’t need to be the case. With multiple online resources available, it has never been easier to share research and photos, documenting important details in a permanent way.

In the process of recording your family history, you might even learn some new and interesting details about your family lineage. Tracking your ancestry can add to the colourful picture that emerges of your family. Looking for a new hobby to bring family together? Maybe give genealogy a try!

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12/05/2025

View Leonard "Leo" Horace Townsend's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

12/04/2025

12/02/2025

Reminiscing on 1925 Events

As the Roaring Twenties hit mid-stride, 1925 was a busy year in Canada and around the world. Women were given the right to vote in Newfoundland, the United Church of Canada held its first service and the Yukon’s Mount Logan (Canada’s highest peak) was successfully scaled. But the biggest news coming out of the year was the creation of one of Canada’s most revered organizations, the Royal Canadian Legion.

In world news, the New Yorker magazine hit newsstands, F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, Sears Roebuck and Co. opened its first store in Chicago, and the Chrysler corporation was founded in Detroit. In November 1925, the Grande Ole Opry debuted on radio as a one-hour barn dance. Much farther north, the Great Race of Mercy was centre stage as a dog-sled team dashed over 1,000 kilometres across Alaska carrying a diphtheria antitoxin to combat a growing epidemic in the small town of Nome.

The year also saw a breakthrough in science and technology when Willis Carrier installed an air-cooling unit in Times Square’s Paramount Rivoli Theater amid a heat wave, forever transforming the sticky, hot, dismal summer movie season. Another invention of the day had Charles F. Brannock filing a patent for the Brannock Device, a tool still used today to measure shoe sizes.

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11/28/2025

Making that call!

A friend or family member has lost someone close. You know that they’re grieving, but you’ve decided, for some reason, that they need some space, some time. And they are alone. When they’re comfortable talking… they’ll call you.

Is this the best way to help them? Emotions associated with grief can be very unpredictable in the days, weeks and even months following the loss of a loved one. Sometimes those who grieve don’t want to be a burden on others and will not initiate.

All the while, they are having difficulty coping with grief. Reach out to them. This is one of the key times when support is so important. To have someone to talk to, someone to discuss new life challenges or someone to share feelings with is vital to moving forward following the loss of a beloved.

Make the call. Invite yourself over, or go out with them for a coffee. Break up their “aloneness.” Listen to what they have to say. Your actions will help.

© Affinity Funeral Service/CFHC Online

11/25/2025

Make an Informed Decision about their Service

Part of our role as a funeral director is to advise families of the available best practices to honour their loved ones. The training we receive and the experience we’ve acquired over the years helps us as we provide information on the many ways a family can pay tribute to a beloved. Remembrance through ceremony has been a part of humankind for millennia. The saying of good-byes is not a new idea or social construct.

When preplanning a service, the importance to provide an opportunity to say good-byes for those grieving a loved one is paramount. By gathering together with well wishers a small community unites to support and comfort one another. Those who mourn, come to realize they are not alone.

We support by helping families who face this journey, by providing counsel on a variety of topics that ease the burden they face immediately following the loss of their loved one. This is often an unfamiliar world, one filled with many questions which are accompanied by considerable anxiety. Our involvement facilitates a smooth unfolding of the events that follow losing a beloved.

We are here for you, at your time of need or if you have questions about funeral planning. Having the information to make decisions in an informed way is one of our goals when meeting with you.

© Affinity Funeral Service/CFHC Online