Memorial Services

Light Up a Life Community Tree Lighting Ceremony

Thursday, December 4th, 2008, 3:00pm - 5:00pm

The service will include readings and a candle-lighting in honor of the loved ones, an opportunity for sharing memories and an outside tree-lighting ceremony.  This year, we are asking community members to bring photos of their loved ones to display in our photo montage as part of the service.  Memorial ornaments will be available for purchase that day.  A reception and light refreshments are part of the afternoon. You do not need to register. 

Community Holiday Memorial Service Celebrates Lives

Coping with the Holidays Workshop

Saturday, November 15th, 2008, 9:00am-12:00pm

The holidays can be a difficult time after the loss of a loved one and part of the process of getting over a death is celebrating a life.  Willamette Valley Hospice celebrates the lives of those who were Hospice patients during the past year at the holiday memorial service.

The celebration is an opportunity not only for friends and family members, but for Willamette Valley Hospice staff to share in the remembering and celebrating of patients they have supported.  It’s a chance for family members to formally remember their loved ones and to reconnect with the nurses and other members of the hospice team who cared for their family member during the last days, weeks or months of life.

Memorial services include music, a reading of the names of those being honored, along with an opportunity for survivors to honor their loved one in a special way.

Willamette Valley Hospice typically serves patients with a terminal diagnosis of six months or less and have decided not to seek further treatment. The hospice team consisting of nurses, physicians, home health aides, social workers, spiritual counselors, bereavement counselors, therapists and volunteers strive to help patients live as fully and as comfortably as possible up to the time of their death.

We focus more on quality of life than on death. We help both patients and their families to feel comfortable emotionally, physically and spiritually. Often becoming close to patients and their families. Staff need the opportunity to remember the patients that they have had the honor of supporting. It also means a great deal for family members to reconnect with members of the hospice team.

For more information about our spring and or holiday memorial celebrations, please contact Bereavement Services at (503) 588.3600 or toll free at (800) 555.2431.