INTRODUCTION OF NEW VIDEO TRIBUTE PROGRAM
Stark-Welin Funeral Directors is pleased to announce the addition of our new Video Tribute program. Since its' founding in 1888, Stark-Welin Funeral Directors has continued to provide the most personal and meaningful funeral services available. The addition of our new Video Tribute program is yet another result of that mission and is an exclusive offering to the families we serve.
The Video Tribute program allows us to create a memorable video collage of pictures that will celebrate the living of a life. To the collection of photos provided by the family, we will add music and use transitional interludes to fade from one picture into another. The Video Tribute re-lives cherished memories and celebrates a life that was lived. It creates a keepsake video for family and loved ones to enjoy for years to come. The Video Tribute is one of the most engaging and compelling memorial services we offer.
Your Video Tribute will open with a tasteful moving introduction celebrating the life of your loved one. Watch with fondness as early childhood, the discovery of youth, the excitement of adulthood, the responsibility of working years, family, vacations, retrospection of retirement and cherished life photos slowly appear through the customized scenes. Photos of your loved one appear creatively before your eyes as you relive those beautiful memories, all set to a wonderfully moving musical arrangement.
Your Video Tribute will help you remember; a key element in the healing process of grief. It will assist you and your family in moving from a “relationship of presence” to a “relationship of memory” in the comfort of your own home. What better way to pay tribute to your loved one than sharing on video the wonderful moments, which made their life so special. What a beautiful and lasting remembrance to pass on to other generations, especially the younger ones, when the memories are starting to fade.
The Video Tribute is a memorial that you can take home and play anytime you like, share with family who were unable to attend the service or watch on the Internet at our website www.starkwelin.com .
Stark-Welin Funeral Directors provide the Video Tribute at "no additional cost" for all families who wish to accept the service at their time of need. Families who have accepted this offer have expressed to us how meaningful it was.
We invite you to visit the obituary link on our web site and view a Video Tribute by clicking on the obituary you wish to view and then clicking on the "view video tribute" link. Celebrate in the memory of your loved one.
CAN MUSIC FROM A CD BE USED IN A VIDEO TRIBUTE
The disappointing answer to this request is “NO”. Our funeral home’s BMI, ASCAP, SESAC and SOCAN licenses allow us to play music in our funeral home over our sound system, but “do not” include the right to “synchronize” music to produce a video or publish it on the Internet. Unfortunately, “popular” music found on a CD and often times requested by the family cannot be used to produce a Video Tribute unless the appropriate music licenses have been negotiated with both the recording company and the composer.
All of the music used by Stark-Welin Funeral Directors, in the production of our Video Tribute, is fully licensed allowing us to play the Video Tribute in our funeral home, on the Internet or make copies of the Video Tribute to be given to the family and their friends.
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Imogene Hoffman | ||
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| Imogene Elizabeth (Carlson) Hoffman, of Lubbock, Texas departed this life on May 13, 2009 at the age of 76 years.
She was born in Ogden, Iowa on February 5, 1933 to Bessie and Martin Carlson. In 1950, she graduated from high school in Pilot Mound, Iowa. Imogene married Dean Hoffman in 1956 and they moved to Lubbock in 1972. She was a member of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church and the Harmony Sunday school class. Imogene was first and foremost a quiet yet strong Christian woman. She was a devoted wife and mother. Imogene believed in the simple things in life, and enjoyed her hobbies of letter writing, attending garage sales, clipping coupons, collecting baseball cards and watching Cubs baseball. She was well known for baking cookies as she baked countless dozens for Vacation Bible School, the Christmas holidays, family, friends and neighbors. Imogene had the most giving spirit, a love for singing, a strong faith and a great compassion and was unselfish with her time and talents. The values she taught her children and grandchildren will be her legacy – to serve God, be kind to others, work hard, save money, and always do the right thing. Her parents, and one sister, Fern Carlson preceded her in death. Those left to cherish her memory are her husband; four children: Brenda Hook and husband, John of Ft. Smith, Arkansas., Kent Hoffman and wife, Carmen of Tipton, Iowa. Brent Hoffman and wife, Jana of Lubbock, Texas and Linda Archer and husband, Donnell, also of Lubbock, Texas. She has nine grandchildren: Joshua and Jessica Rusnak; Billy, Jennifer, and Russell Hoffman; Brittany and Blake Hoffman; and Lindsay and Kirby Archer. A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, May 15, 2009 at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Lubbock, Texas with Dr. Will Cotton officiating. Graveside services and interment will be held on Monday morning, May 18th at 11:00 a.m. in the Squire Boone Cemetery southeast of Boone. The family suggests memorial donations be made to the American Heart Association at 5414 82nd Street, Ste. B, Lubbock, TX 79423 or to the St. Luke’s United Methodist Church at 3709 45th Street, Lubbock, TX 79413. | ||
