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The grief families have to cope with after the funeral can sometimes seem unbearable. We, at Pugh Funeral Home, feel that our responsibility to the surviving family and friends continues long after the loss.
Dwight Hooker
Because of this commitment Pugh Funeral Home has established a facility to provide these services. Dwight Hooker, Director of Bereavement Services works with families at our New Hope Bereavement Center. This center provides various support services to help people find hope and encouragement in their journey through grief. Over the years we've started many support groups and conducted numerous seminars to give people the help they need to continue with life.
These services are offered without charge to all families we serve.
We invite you to share your story. Please contact Dwight Hooker if you would like to.
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A Memorial Tribute
to
Bill Kearns
By Vernon B. McDaniel
Bill Kearns joined Pugh Funeral Homes in 1978. He soon became a fixture in his adopted town of his childhood, Troy, in Montgomery County. He grew up there except for a few years in his teens before the death of his mother. He had relatives throughout the county, his children educated there, so he virtually became a walking encyclopedia of family relationships of people throughout the area. Seemingly, there was almost no one whom he did not know -- in his father’s generation, his own, or his children’s. This knowledge and his laid-back conversational style gave him unusual rapport with the almost countless families who experienced death in their lives. They felt "comfortable" with Bill arranging and directing the funerals of their parents and children, because he was almost "family" to them.
There was little doubt that Bill loved the funeral business, and his lifestyle showed that he did not want to be away from it very long. Therefore, he gave up many a holiday, or a day off, or even a vacation to assist a family in laying to eternal rest their their schedule, not his own. That never seemed to bother him because that was the way he was.
Bill was one of those soft-shoe funeral directors from the past with old-style dignity and care. That was why he was such a unique individual. I am glad to have known him as a friend and was privileged to work with him in Troy for almost 16 years.
He will truly be missed.
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