When you finally sit down with a blank screen or a notepad after a loss, staring at the blinking cursor can feel cruel. How are you supposed to condense sixty, eighty, or ninety years of laughter, stubbornness, heartbreak, and everyday routines into a few short...
When my wife Stephanie’s father passed away in 2020, our family made the decision to establish a new family cemetery. It was a time of immense grief, but also of establishing a legacy. During the arrangements, the funeral home asked the standard procedural question:...
I saw an article recently, the kind designed to make you click out of fear. It claimed that kissing a deceased loved one is a major health hazard, citing "doctors' orders" to never do it. It’s easy to get caught up in the noise of the internet, but in this line of...
When you build the last physical resting place a person will ever need, you spend a lot of time observing grief up close. For five generations, our family has stood quietly in the background of these profound moments, watching people try their best to offer comfort....
When most people hear the word "grief," their minds immediately go to a cemetery. At Randolph’s Custom Caskets, we understand the immense, life-altering devastation of losing a family member. We respect it. We dedicate our livelihood to building the final, dignified...
In our line of work, we don’t deal in illusions. We build the final physical resting place a person will ever need, and that carries a profound weight we never take lightly. Because of what we do, we meet families at the most difficult moments of their lives. We see...