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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Nan " Nancy" LaMotte | ||
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| Nancy “Emma Nan” LaMotte, 88, the loving wife of Rev. Gerald LaMotte, went to live with her heavenly Father, June 22, 2009. Formerly of 1621 Linn Street in Boone, she passed away at her daughter’s home in New Sharon, Iowa, as were her wishes.
She was born on July 2, 1920 in Marvin, Missouri the daughter of Robert “Frank” and Lenora (Scott) Crane. Following graduation from Tama High School, Nancy attended Business School in Kansas City. On January 28, 1940, she married Gerald LaMotte at the United Methodist Church in Tama, Iowa. The couple lived in several locations where her husband served as minister for churches in Melcher-Dallas, Iowa, Acushnet, Massachusetts, Macedonia, Iowa, Epworth in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Oskaloosa, Iowa, Boone, Iowa, and Waterloo, Iowa before retiring in 1981, moving to Oskaloosa for a year and then to Boone. She was a member of the United Methodist Church where she was active in numerous church groups including her Circle. Nancy enjoyed crocheting, quilting with the women at the Church, baking cookies and love spending time with her family. Her parents; husband Jerry in December of 2007; 3 children, baby girl LaMotte, Paul LaMotte, Beverly LaMotte Hupp; 1 granddaughter; 1 great-grandson; and 7 sisters preceded her in death. Survivors include 2 sons, Jerry LaMotte, III and wife Marcia of Imperial, Missouri, Robert M. LaMotte of Springfield, Illinois; 1 daughter, Connie L. Alexander and husband Gary of New Sharon, Iowa; 17 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; 5 great-great-grandchildren; 1 sister-in-law, Doris Devine of Tucson, Arizona; nieces, nephews, and friends. Services will be held on Friday afternoon, June 26th at 1:00 p.m. at the Stark-Welin Chapel in Boone with Rev. Jim Stiles officiating. Following the funeral service, her body will be cremated with interment of her cremains at a later date in Oak Hill Cemetery in Tama, Iowa. Friends may call at the Stark-Welin Chapel in Boone on Friday from 11:00 a.m. until the time of service with the family present during that time to greet friends. Those wishing to express their sympathies through a memorial may direct their gift to the LaMotte Educational Fund in care of the First United Methodist Church, 703 Arden Street, Boone, Iowa 50036. | ||
