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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Lola Golding | ||
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| Lola Marie was born to Herbert & Alma (Tharp) Trafford in their home in Glidden, Iowa on January 14, 1928, where she joined 5 sisters; Leora, Ida, Alta, Norma and Betty; and 2 brothers Robert and Donald; two years later a 3rd brother, Bertram, was born.
Lola died at the age of 81, on October 19, 2009, at Hearthstone, the Memory Care Unit of the Eastern Star Home in Boone, which she entered March 2008. She was preceded in death by her parents, four sisters and two brothers. Lola is survived by her husband Philip (Phil) Golding of Boone, 3 sons and 2 daughters: James Golding and wife Mindy (Pollack) of Guilford, Connecticut; Peggy Lynn and husband Edward of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota; Phyllis Schmidt and husband J. Paul of Clear Lake, Iowa; Thomas Golding and wife Diane of Adelaide, SA Australia; and Kenneth Golding of Clear Lake, Iowa. She is also survived by her sister Betty Warnke and husband Norman of Carroll, Iowa, her brother Bertram Trafford and wife Marlana of Bonaire, Georgia, and sister-in-law and good friend, Mildred Trafford of Hilbert, Wisconsin. She has five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Lola married Philip E. Golding on December 6th of 1948 at the Friends Church in Glidden, Iowa. They farmed for nine years with Phil’s parents on a rented farm just north of Ralston, Iowa. In the fall of 1956, Phil was hired as the Dairy Herd Improvement supervisor for the Audubon/Guthrie County Association and the family moved to Guthrie County in January 1957. Lola took care of the family and did the monthly update of the dairy association herd books for Phil who was often on the road. In June of 1958, after living in Somers for six months, they moved again, this time to Gowrie, Iowa and the Webster County DHI Association. Then to Boone, Iowa, when Phil’s job moved to the office at the Dairy Science Extension at ISU in Ames. Early in their marriage Lola, a small town girl, learned to be a farm wife. She was already an expert seamstress, and now became efficient in gardening, cooking, canning, raising livestock and even taught herself to milk. She loved her chickens. She made most of her family’s clothing. Above all, she loved her family and made the most of every holiday and birthday. Lola was a devoted Christian and a member of the First Evangelical Free Church. Lola loved children and for 20-some years was the main church nursery attendant for all services. In the late 1970s she was hired by the Evangelical Free Church Home, in the dietary department, where she worked for 10 or more years. She took flowers, cookies, candy and small gifts to residents at both the Evangelical Free Church and Eastern Star homes. After she retired in 1990, she continued to call on friends and do volunteer work at both homes. (Perhaps you purchased some of the nylon dishwasher scratchers that she crocheted and were sold at the Evangelical Free Church Home.) Our lasting memory of her was her crooked little smile and the only answer she could speak, “Don’t know.” Or “Maybe?” We miss her and wish we could tell her how much we miss and loved her! Services will be held Monday morning, October 26th at 10:00 a.m. at the First Evangelical Free Church in Boone with Pastors Daniel Grell, Dorington Little III and Rev. Bruce Bentley officiating. Interment will be in Linwood Park Cemetery in Boone. Friends may call at the Stark-Welin Chapel in Boone on Sunday evening from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. with the family present during that time to greet friends. Visitations will continue Monday morning at the Church from 8:30 a.m. until the time of service. In lieu of flowers, those wishing to express their sympathies through a memorial may direct their gift to the family for a memorial to be determined at a later date. | ||
