Ball: Elizabeth M. Gladys
Peacefully on Thursday September 20, 2012 at Leisureworld Caregiving Centre – Brampton Woods. Gladys in her 95th year, pre deceased by her first husband, John James (Jay) Gilroy. Loving mother of Joan Breedon, Norene Butler, and Dianne McCallum. Forever in the hearts of her eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Remembered with love by her sisters Edna Vernon, Lorene Hollingshead, Bernice Rawn, Donelda Foster, and pre deceased by her sister Marion Magloughlen and her brothers Earl Brown and Wilmot “Bill” Brown.
The family will receive friends at Rod Abrams Funeral Home, 1666 Tottenham Road, Tottenham 905-936-3477 on Saturday, September 22, 2012 from 10am until time of Service in the Chapel at 11am. Interment Newton Robinson Cemetery.
www.RodAbramsFuneralHome.com
Dallas says
Gladys, you read far more of that solicitation than I would have. Solicitations of any kind that I’m not insetetred in are shredded and used as packaging later on or tossed into the recycling bin ..often without being opened or at least not read beyond the first few lines. The topic of the letter you received isn’t taboo as far as I am concerned. The methods the funeral home used, direct marketing, is not my favorite method of marketing. However, the letter described services and funerals are a service just like security systems, or the many other ads for services we see plastered on our doorsteps. Before I contacted the Direct Mailing Association to have my name removed from their mailing lists, I’d get direct mail from one local funeral home and a local crematory. Twice I got these mailings at very inopportune times-once just after a young coworker had died in a car crash on her way in to work, and once just after the young son of a friend had died from a chronic illness. I did feel a twinge of profound sadness at the memories the ads provoked ..but I think that dying is inevitable and that there will always be reminders with or without those ads. I would far rather see people become savvy consumers than impose rules about which businesses can use direct marketing and which ones can not. I don’t mean to seem insensitive, but I’m afraid I must seem that way. I’ve faced my own mortality more than once, and I just don’t feel that ads about end of life services are any worse than ads for most other services.
susie robinson says
To diane & girls. Sorry to hear of your loss.Your memories will help.Memories are golden.
Susie Robinson