Funeral homes in Lee County have announced new guidelines to comply with the governor's shelter in place.
Treated on board.// funeral homes in lee county have announced guidelines to comply with the governor's shelter in place order.// owners of area funeral homes announced their guidelines this morning during a press conference.// among the guidelines; public visitations have been cancelled, and funeral services can have no more than ten people in the audience.
Also, there will be no public graveside services.// funeral homes will offer livestream broadcasts of the service for family and friends who cannot attend in person because of the ten person limit.// funeral home directors are coming up with other ways for family and friends to be part of the service without being there in person.// "we actually started, three weeks ago, a hugs from home program, it is so those that cannot or should not attend services and now cannot because of service limitation sizes.
People can call us or do it online at our website and we will put a balloon in place of a person at a service to show they wanted to be there but unfortunately due to circumstances cannot.
Funeral home directors say once the pandemic passes, they will allow families to have celebration of life services for loved ones with large crowds.//
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