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In our blog, we share resources and information that families in our community can use to cope with their loss or better understand their grief. We also write about ways we have been involved in the community. Check out our latest posts below.

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Save your family grief: Plan your funeral now

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Errol Castens | Leave a comment
Posted under Grief, Planning

Much as you might like to spare your loved ones pain and trouble, the days following your death will be exceedingly difficult for them. There’s one thing you can do, though, to make even that painful time significantly less stressful: Plan your funeral now. (A convenient way is to click on our pre-planning form.) Even […]

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Coleman named ‘Best of DeSoto’

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Errol Castens | Leave a comment
Posted under Community, People

Coleman Funeral Home and Cremation Services has been named Best Funeral Service in the DeSoto Times-Tribune’s 2016 “DeSoto’s Best” contest. Winners were announced in a special publication on Feb. 23, 2017. Coleman expanded into DeSoto County by opening on Goodman Road in Olive Branch in February 2015 after serving Lafayette County and surrounding areas since 2004. Larry […]

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Coleman Funeral Home helps law school’s tornado relief

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Errol Castens | Leave a comment
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University of Mississippi law students are among the groups responding with relief for survivors of tornadoes that ravaged South Mississippi on Jan. 20-21. Coleman Funeral Home is pleased to join the university’s Law School Student Body has started gathering supplies for both survivors and response teams. Mirroring the type of donation it frequently makes to […]

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The next generation of funeral directors?

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Errol Castens | Leave a comment
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  A Health Sciences class from Benton County Career and Technical Center visited Coleman Funeral Home in Oxford on Thursday, Jan. 12. The students got an eyeful and an earful about what’s involved in serving families who’ve lost a loved one to death.   Instructor Bethany Pipkin and school counselor Karen Patterson accompanied a baker’s dozen […]

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Our ‘quiet celebration’

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Errol Castens | Leave a comment
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Coleman Funeral Home hosted a Christmas memorial on Dec. 4 for families we had served since opening our new building in November 2015.   In what will be an annual offering, the event was a quieter celebration of the sometimes overwhelming holiday. A blazing fireplace, beverages and hors d’oeuvres complemented the setting of wreaths, poinsettias […]

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