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Mascho Funeral Home Inc. Mascho Funeral Home Inc. is here to assist you with the pre-planning of a funeral or help families plan a service to celebrate the life of a loved one.

11/14/2025

It is entirely understandable that concerned visitors may be at a loss as to what to say to a dying friend or family member. Experts suggest that visitors be as open and honest as possible. Attention should be focused upon sharing the experience with the dying person, in hopes of offering strength and understanding in the face of approaching death and the struggle to accept it. When terminal patients are apprised of their conditions, it fosters a sense of partnership with caretakers and promotes a crucial sense of dignity. In this honest environment, patients are better able to come to terms with their fate and discuss it openly. Visitors can then perform the invaluable service of lending a receptive ear.

"They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind."
-Hugh Robert Orr

11/07/2025

Death may be inevitable, but the confusion and anxiety that often accompany it need not be. By addressing beforehand the practical matters surrounding death, you can spare your family unnecessary hardship. For this reason alone, everyone should discuss such matters in advance, as well as consider funeral pre-arrangement. Having an honest conversation about death, and what preferences should be followed when it occurs, need not be difficult. In fact, many experience a feeling of relief after this important topic is discussed. Death is a part of life, and funeral arrangements are as important and necessary as planning for other life-altering events. Pre-arranging your funeral takes the necessary steps to ensure that your loved ones are spared needless concern.

"Fear not the sentence of death; why dost thou refuse when it is the good pleasure of the Most High?" - Wisdom of Ben Sira

We ask that everyone please keep the DeBock family in your thoughts and prayers
11/05/2025

We ask that everyone please keep the DeBock family in your thoughts and prayers

We ask that everyone please keep Patricia's friends and family in your thoughts and prayers
10/31/2025

We ask that everyone please keep Patricia's friends and family in your thoughts and prayers

We ask that everyone please keep Mary Ann's friends and family in your thoughts and prayers
10/31/2025

We ask that everyone please keep Mary Ann's friends and family in your thoughts and prayers

10/31/2025

For many, it is an instinctual reflex to face death with thoughts that the soul will live forever. This thought of immortality reflects our desire to have the assurance that our existence continues, in some form, eternally. Since the afterlife is ultimately a mystery, faith is a necessary ingredient of its existence. The soul is often defined as that which imparts life to any animate thing. It is the inner, non-corporeal, essential element of an animate entity. Of course, immortality is impossible to prove, but it imbues the living with a sense of hope that springs eternal. This hope breathes life into the universal yearning for meaning and continuity in our lives, which may be embraced by mourners, young and old.

"Death cannot kill what never dies."
-William Penn

10/24/2025

Preparing the dead for memorialization by using fire is an age-old tradition. In the cradle of civilization, the ancient Babylonians were among the first to ritualize their cremation ceremony by wrapping the bodies of deceased loved ones in combustible material and then encasing them in clay. This clay coffin was then placed on a funeral pyre that was set ablaze. Similarly, the people of ancient India also utilized a funeral pyre, which they referred to as the "Sacred Flame." A considerable amount of artistry was lavished upon the urns in which their loved ones' cremated remains were memorialized. It is notable that the word "funeral" is derived from a Sanskrit word of northern India that means "smoke."

"I look at life as a gift from God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain."
-Joyce Cary

We ask that everyone please keep Bob's friends and family in your thoughts and prayers
10/24/2025

We ask that everyone please keep Bob's friends and family in your thoughts and prayers

We ask that everyone please keep Margo's friends and family in your thoughts and prayers
10/22/2025

We ask that everyone please keep Margo's friends and family in your thoughts and prayers

We ask that everyone please keep Annie's friends and family in your thoughts and prayers
10/17/2025

We ask that everyone please keep Annie's friends and family in your thoughts and prayers

10/17/2025

This is the first of an ongoing series of insights that I will share weekly.

Various Cultures have a tradition that calls for mourners to break bread together after the funeral. In accordance with this custom, some Spaniards bake a special bread for the wake, while, in this country, the Amish bake "funeral pies" made with raisins. Among Jewish families, the first meal after a funeral is called "the meal of condolence," in which hard-boiled eggs and other round foods are served in recognition of life's continuity. Thus, it is that the universality of the death experience evokes an equally universal response. A communal meal after the funeral is symbolic of the need to replenish ourselves and carry on with the business of living. In the process, we gain a degree of comfort

"For my sake turn again to life and smile, nerving thy heart and trembling hand to do that which comfort other souls than mine."
-Mary Lee Hall

We ask that everyone please keep Peggy's friends and family in your thoughts and prayers
10/13/2025

We ask that everyone please keep Peggy's friends and family in your thoughts and prayers

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