Advice please - funeral
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Advice please - funeral
We have just had a telephone call from the kids school saying that their caretaker died of a heart attack yesterday. The funeral is tomorrow and the school is closing for the day as a mark of respect. Is there anything I should know as regards protocol? For instance do I send flowers; should we go to the funeral; send a letter of condolence. I just do not know what the correct thing to do is. The school only has 85 children so they would be "missed" if they did not go to the funeral and should have done. I do not want to upset anyone by doing the wrong thing. Advice gratefully received.
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Re: Advice please - funeral
We have just had a telephone call from the kids school saying that their caretaker died of a heart attack yesterday. The funeral is tomorrow and the school is closing for the day as a mark of respect. Is there anything I should know as regards protocol? For instance do I send flowers; should we go to the funeral; send a letter of condolence. I just do not know what the correct thing to do is. The school only has 85 children so they would be "missed" if they did not go to the funeral and should have done. I do not want to upset anyone by doing the wrong thing. Advice gratefully received.
Don't you have another childs parent you could call to see what they are going to do?
Don't take what I said as gospel, but if a work colleague died I would say send flowers etc, but this is a school employee so not someone you had any acquaintanceship with I would think.
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Re: Advice please - funeral
We have just had a telephone call from the kids school saying that their caretaker died of a heart attack yesterday. The funeral is tomorrow and the school is closing for the day as a mark of respect. Is there anything I should know as regards protocol? For instance do I send flowers; should we go to the funeral; send a letter of condolence. I just do not know what the correct thing to do is. The school only has 85 children so they would be "missed" if they did not go to the funeral and should have done. I do not want to upset anyone by doing the wrong thing. Advice gratefully received.
go to the funeral.you may find that most of the community are going. only attend while the coffin is going to the church and wait untill mass finishes.thats you done.you have shown your respect.the coffin will continue with the family and relitives to the buerial.I dont know about your area but here you just go in normal every day day clothes and no flowers.
Last edited by betris; Sep 28th 2008 at 8:21 pm.
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Re: Advice please - funeral
If you meet any family or close friends of the deceased. The phrase to use is.
Te acompaƱo en el sentimiento.
Te acompaƱo en el sentimiento.