Murphy Funeral Home of Falls Church

12/05/2025

12/04/2025

A funeral or cremation memorial that celebrates the details that make you unique in the world takes a little thought and planning. Get your free copy of Imagine: A Memorial Inspiration Guide and start thinking about how you’d like to be remembered.

A memorial service that celebrates the details that make you unique takes careful planning. Get your free copy of Imagine: A Memorial Inspiration Guide today.

12/01/2025

11/28/2025

Let someone who is grieving know you care. Sympathy gifts and condolence flowers may seem like a small thing, but to a friend or relative who is mourning, they can mean a lot. Show your support with a heartfelt gesture—and don’t forget the card.

Sympathy gifts and condolence flowers can mean a lot to a friend or relative who is grieving. Get ideas on the Dignity Memorial website.

11/25/2025

Cemetery Flowers makes it easy for families with loved ones memorialized at select Dignity Memorial® cemeteries to remember birthdays, anniversaries, holidays and more.

Cemetery Flowers floral placement service makes it easy for families to remember loved ones on birthdays, anniversaries, holidays or anytime.

11/24/2025

Social connections may help protect health and lengthen life. Scientists are finding that our link to others can have powerful effects on our health. Whether with family, friends, neighbors, romantic partners or others, social connections can influence our biology and well-being.

Learn how your relationships with others can influence your biology and well-being.

11/21/2025

: While both are places where people are buried, a graveyard is affiliated with a church and a cemetery is not. Graveyards are often smaller, located on church grounds and may be limited to people of that faith or members of the church. Cemeteries are often larger and open to anyone who wishes to be buried there.

11/20/2025

If you’ve ever attended a military funeral, perhaps you noticed that the honor guards pay meticulous attention to folding the U.S. flag that once draped the casket. Guards make crisp, precise folds a total of 13 times to complete the ceremony. Much like every other aspect of our nation’s greatest symbol, each of the 13 folds holds a special significance.

If you’ve ever attended a military funeral, perhaps you noticed that the honor guards pay meticulous attention to folding the U.S. flag that once draped the casket. Guards make crisp, precise folds a total of 13 times to complete the ceremony. Much like every other aspect of our nation’s greates...

11/14/2025

Saturday, December 13, 2025

We are just 30 days away from Wreaths Across America Day 2025!

Join us on Saturday, Dec. 13 to place wreaths at the base of a service members’ and their families’ headstone or columbarium niche to honor their legacy and remember their sacrifice.

For more information visit www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/WAA.

11/14/2025

Lots of opportunities for food donations this weekend.

Donation and service events for local families in need are taking place at Roman Catholic parishes across Arlington this weekend. The projects, part of over 100 events happening in the Diocese of Arlington...