Blaney Funeral Home and Cremation Services

11/16/2025

Best wishes to the Hmong community on the next 50 years!

Organizers say this year’s celebration is especially meaningful as it marks 50 years since the first Hmong refugees arrived in the U.S. after aiding American forces in Vietnam.

11/15/2025

Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore

11/14/2025

Are you wondering when you will “get over “ the loss of your loved one or are you tired of hearing people tell you that you will “get over it”?

“You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to.” --Elisabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler

11/13/2025

Today is World Kindness Day.
World Kindness Day is a global day that promotes the importance of being kind to each other, to yourself, and to the world. The purpose of this day, celebrated on November 13 of each year, is to help everyone understand that compassion for others is what binds us all together.
Let’s all try to perform some act of kindness (big or small) today.

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." — Aesop.

11/11/2025

November 11th is Veterans Day. On this day and always, we honor those who have served our country in the military and remember those who are no longer with us.
M/Sgt. William Blaney

11/11/2025

November 11th is Veteran’s Day. It’s a good time to reflect on these words.

On this day of remembrance, let us pray in the name of those who have fought in this country's wars… that there will be no veterans of any further war -- not because all shall have perished but because all shall have learned to live together in peace.
~President John F. Kennedy

11/09/2025

November is the month of remembering.

11/06/2025

Accept help if you need it.
Provide help if you are able.

11/05/2025

WELCOME NOVEMBER…

There is something about November that says ‘keep going’.
We are not quite through the year, yet the finish-line looms.
We are plunged into darkness by Mother Nature.
We are faced with the ‘season of joy’,
and yet many of us wonder where we will find it.

And I think November is a great time to take a little peek behind you,
and see just how much you’ve done.
To take stock of your achievements, your endurance,
your survival.
To rest, reinforce, before the festivities envelope us all.
Before beautiful new beginnings.

And most importantly, November is a time to seek out light.
As the natural order darkens, we must find it ourselves.
We must do whatever we can to brighten our day,
our home, the world.

Seek out light wherever you can my friends,
and pay no heed to those who condemn your sparkle.

You are much-needed.

Keep showing up, in that special way only you can do.
And show up for yourself too
(which can sometimes mean not showing up at all).

This year has been hard.
Again.
But beautiful.
Again.

As is the way of life.

As is the way of life.

~Donna Ashworth

11/03/2025

If you are in need of assistance, this may help you and your family.

11/02/2025

An Irish Blessing

May the blessing of the Earth be on you
May the earth be soft under you when you rest upon it,
Tired at the end of the day,
And may it rest easy over you when,
At the last, you lay out under it;
May it rest so lightly over you,
That your soul may be out from under it quickly,
And up, and off, and on its way to God.

11/01/2025

Today is the feast of All Saints. We hold in our hearts St. Joseph of Arimathea, the patron saint of Funeral Directors, as he so reverently cared for the body of Jesus when He was taken down from the cross.

St. Joseph and all the saints, pray for us.