Foa Stewey

[DaisyNonna]

Relation just died in Canada. Told there will be no funeral. Is this usual. Do not understand.

[stewey]

DaisyNonna, that usually means that there is no visitation at a funeral home; no church or funeral home service; that the internment of the body or ashes is strictly a family affair; and that there is no gathering at the end of the affair.

[DaisyNonna]

Thanks Stewey. Would have liked to send flowers. Last but one relation of my generation.

[stewey]

You MIGHT get some information from this site: just click on the province in which the person died.
http://canadaobits.ca/

[ethandron]

An elderly aunt of mine who lived in America died a few years ago. Her daughter (my cousin) was over here staying with me at the time. The aunt was cremated within days of her death, while my cousin was still here in England. There was no funeral or ceremony of any kind and my cousin told me it wasn't at all unusual. Sometimes a memorial service of some kind may be arranged at a later date but not always.
My cousin brought my aunts ashes to England the following year to be scattered at a favourite place near to where she'd been born.

[Peter Pedant]

agree Daisy - its an event ( death that is) that has social and legal consequences.
I was excluded by a skool leaver who said only family and old frenz
and I wailed, but I have known him for fifty years !