{"id":124,"date":"2018-12-18T15:40:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stthomas-stocktonheath.org.uk\/?page_id=124"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:37:55","slug":"funerals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/?page_id=124","title":{"rendered":"Funerals"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Funerals<\/strong><\/h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The death of a family member or friend can be a tragic and upsetting time.\u00a0 We are here to help you through the planning and the funeral service itself, but also afterwards, when the dust has settled, there will always be someone to listen, to comfort you, to pray with you.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some practical advice: The Church of England has an excellent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/churchofenglandfunerals.org\/\" class=\"broken_link\">website<\/a>\u00a0with helpful information about funerals.\u00a0 The first thing you need to do is to contact a Funeral Director who will organise the date and time of the service and pass your details to us.\u00a0 However, if you do want to\u00a0get in touch directly, you are more than welcome to do so.\u00a0 A member of the clergy will visit you at home and support you as you plan the service of celebration and remembrance for your loved one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will keep in touch with you following the service: we will visit you several weeks later to see how you\u2019re doing, and you\u2019ll be invited to our annual All Saints\u2019-Tide Memorial Service at the beginning of November.\u00a0 If you wish, you may have the name of your relative written in the Memorial Books at our churches.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funerals The death of a family member or friend can be a tragic and upsetting time.\u00a0 We are here to help you through the planning and the funeral service itself, but also afterwards, when the dust has settled, there will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/?page_id=124\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-124","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}