Support & Compassionate Care

PR0BUS BEREAVMENT NOTICES

• Subscribe to funeral homes, etc.

• Fawcett (Collingwood and Creemore)

• Chatterson (Collingwood)

• Carruthers, Davidson (Wasaga & Stayner)

• Collingwood Today ($)

• Echovita (Obit sharing) … must designate

• Ferguson (Thornbury & Meaford) no subscriptions

The Support matches the deceased member with the Club’s “Members Directory”. (Some Members have no “enrolled date?)

If the Support finds a match he sends a copy of the deceased member’s Obituary to all members of the Management Committee.

The Support sends a sympathy card to the spouse/family with a few words of comfort. (the return address should be that of the Support)

The Support communicates a written cumulate bereavement report by email and verbally at a Management Committee meeting.

the Support’s duties end here ___

The Memborship Chair removes deceased from the “Membership Directory”.

The Treasurer sends a donation to the charity as requested in the obituary. If the “Hospital or Hospice” are noted as an option by the family of the deceased, The B M PROBUS Club will select one of the two.

The Newsletter Editor inserts the bereavement photo and a few lines in the next issue, or eBlast.

The Webmaster posts the full obituary and photo in the “Members of Memoriam”.

From the podium at a General Meeting, the President includes a few tributes and requests a minute of silence.