A bare wooden reading stand in an empty room with nothing resting on it

Sample notice

Sample notice: service times only

Sample content. This is a demonstration of the notice template and it is not about a real person. No name, no dates and no service times on this page refer to anybody.

No biography at all. Times, places, and what to do about flowers. Used where a family wants the practical detail public and everything else private.

A service announcement

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No name, no dates. This is the template with nothing in it, which is the only honest way to show it.

What would be here

The viewing, if there is one, with its hours
The service: the place, the day and the time
Whether everybody is welcome at the committal or only the family
Where to send flowers, or where to give instead

This is the shape most often chosen after a direct cremation, when the memorial is weeks away and the family simply wants people to know when it is.

The other two shapes

Same template, different lengths. A family often uses more than one.

Sample notice: a full obituary — The longest of the three. A life written out, several hundred words, with the service details at the end and somewhere to leave a message.
Sample notice: a short death notice — Forty words. The name, the date, the service, and nothing else — which is what a great many families want and what a newspaper charges by the line for.
Obituaries and notices — what a notice is for, and how to write one.

If a notice has to go in this week

The times can be set first and the wording can follow. The telephone is answered at every hour of every day.

000-000-0000 All three sample notices

Woodside Memorial Funeral Home · Woodside, NY

A family funeral home on 61st Street in Woodside, opened in 1958 and now in its threerd generation, serving Woodside, Sunnyside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Maspeth and the rest of western Queens. Burial and cremation, memorial and graveside services, viewing and visitation, direct cremation, and arrangements to and from other states and other countries. A chapel that belongs to no denomination and has nothing on its walls, two reposing rooms, a reception room for afterwards, a covered porch and parking behind. We register the death, obtain the permit, order the certified copies and help you claim what the family is entitled to — and we tell you plainly which charges are ours and which belong to the cemetery, the crematory or somebody else. We do not sell the grave, we do not decide the cause of death, we do not lead the rite, we do not give legal or financial advice, and we do not call a telephone call counselling. The telephone is answered at every hour of every day.

What we do

If someone has died

Woodside Memorial

37-36 61st Str, Woodside, NY 11377

000-000-0000

funeralhome@bestdealwebdesign.com

The office

When the office is open
Monday to Friday	9:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday	10:00am - 4:00pm
Sunday	By arrangement

Those are the hours the office is open, not the hours somebody answers. The telephone is answered at every hour of every day of the year, including the middle of the night and including holidays, because that is when most of these calls are made.