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08/31/2025

On International Overdose Awareness Day, we honor the lives lost to overdose. If a child or teen in your life is grieving this type of loss, the National Alliance for Children's Grief offers a caregiver toolkit to help you provide meaningful support.

08/30/2025

Grief can be difficult to navigate, especially for children and teens. On National Grief Awareness Day, we’re supporting the National Alliance for Children's Grief who offer guidance and support through their Family Portal.

Grant opportunities made possible by committed funding partners power up grief support for children in communities across the United States.

08/29/2025

It’s fitting that Jules Verne, father of science fiction, would have a dark, otherworldly gravestone. Two years after his death, a sculpture was erected atop his marker. Designed by sculptor Albert Roze, and using the actual death mask of the writer, the statue depicts the shrouded figure of Jules Verne breaking his own tombstone and emerging from the grave.

08/29/2025

SAVE THE DATE!!

Sunset North Funeral Home invites you to LOTERIA

FREE GAMES
FREE PRIZES
FOOD TRUCKS

Date: Saturday September 13, 2025
Time: 11am to 1pm
Location: Sunset North Funeral Home
Address: 910 N Loop 1604 E, San Antonio, Tx 78232

08/28/2025

Did you know TAPS (Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors) provides grief counseling for survivors grieving the death of a military loved one? Learn more: https://bit.ly/3b6Zqi0

08/27/2025

It’s a phone that never rings and never will. But our Wind Phone at Skyline Memorial Gardens in Portland, Oregon, provides a quiet kind of to those who are . As Lisa Diamond, Skyline location manager said, “Even though I’m in the death care industry, it doesn’t mean that I’m immune from ,” she said. “I lost my mother two years ago. I still felt the need to still have with her, to still give her updates on my life, to still tell her that now I’m a grandma.” Watch this touching on KPTV.

Just outside Portland, tucked away in a quiet cemetery, there’s a phone that doesn’t ring and never will. But for those grieving a loved one it has become a lifeline for healing.

08/26/2025

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.

08/25/2025

When someone we love passes, it’s not the big things we miss most. It’s all the irreplaceable little things that made them special. It’s the details that matter most.

When someone we love passes it's not the big things we miss most. It's all the irreplaceable little things that made them special. It's the detail that matte...

08/24/2025

Many of us will become a caregiver at some point in our lives. The stress and strain of caregiving can take a toll on your health. It’s important to find ways to care for yourself while caring for others. Depending on your circumstances, some self-care strategies may be more difficult to carry out than others. Choose what works for you. Read more: https://bit.ly/3HtWCYC

08/23/2025

08/23/2025

Please join us at 8:30 AM CST for the funeral service of Elena Tharp.

Celebrate the life of Elena Tharp, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Sunset North Funeral Home.

08/22/2025

During her career in the search and rescue division of the Mexican Navy, Frida the rescue dog assisted first responders in major disasters in Haiti and Ecuador, and across Mexico. Even in retirement, she continued her service by training other dogs before she died on November 15, 2022. On November 24, 2022, the Navy held a memorial service attended by Frida’s human and canine colleagues. Her urn was placed in the base of her statue at Naval headquarters, serving as a monument to her memory.