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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Ione Reid
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Ione Reid, 96, formerly of 724 7th Street in Boone passed away at the Eastern Star Masonic Home in Boone on Wednesday morning, November 4, 2009 where she had been a resident since September of 2004. She was born on a farm, the eighth of nine children of J.J. and Lydia Ann (Rinehart) Zunkel, at the unincorporated settlement of Wolf, Iowa (south of Pilot Mound, Iowa) on October 26, 1913. Ione attended grade school at Pilot Mound. In 1927, the family moved to Boone where she attended Boone Jr.-Sr. High School. She graduated in 1932 and continued her education at Boone Jr. College graduating in a class of 13 students. While attending school, Ione enjoyed the drama and swimming clubs. Following Junior College, she was a nanny for two families. She later went to work as a clerk at the Silver Bow and in 1935 worked for the Leader Grocery Store as a clerk and bookkeeper. Ione was a cashier at the old Boone Theatre. Beginning in 1942, she served as an office assistant for the C.L. Updegraff doctors for 20 years. On October 12, 1942, she married her high school sweetheart, Drew W. Reid at the Presbyterian Manse in Boone. In 1954, Ione was elected to the Board of Directors of the Iowa Women’s Golf Association where she continued to serve for 36 years, retiring in 1993. While on the Board, she helped three Boone girls receive scholarships to an Iowa college, wrote the History of Iowa Women’s Golf Association, and later the History of Iowa Girls Golf Association. In 1963, with the help of Don Riemenschneider, Superintendent of Boone Schools, Ione helped establish Girls Golf at the Boone High School. Ione had a passion for bridge. She taught certified contract bridge lessons and played duplicate bridge for 20 years, driving to Ames and Des Moines. Throughout the years, Ione taught bridge at the Boone County Y, Boone Golf and Country Club and Adult Education Classes at the Boone and Ogden High schoosl. In 1981, she started playing competitive duplicate bridge at the YMCA and Boone Golf and Country Club. Besides her interest in golf and bridge, Ione enjoyed traveling to many Hawkeye bowl games, reading, writing letters to friends and family, entertaining and flower gardening. She received many honors in her lifetime, including Layman of the Year for the Boone County YW-YMCA in 1971; “A Friend of Education” from the Boone Teacher’s Association in 1991; and was a lifetime member of the Boone Golf and Country Club and its’ oldest member. Her parents and 7 brothers and sisters preceded her in death. She is survived by a sister, Arlene Jones of Boone, and many nieces and nephews. In accordance to her wishes, her body is being donated to the University of Iowa Medical School. A memorial with interment will be at a later date. Those wishing to express their sympathies through a memorial may direct their gift to the First Presbyterian Church, 703 Greene Street, Boone, Iowa 50036.