Dog, Cats, Smarts, and Cremations
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Martin Oaks Cemetery and Crematory in Lewisville, Texas, just south of Denton, Texas and just north of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, receives numerous inquiries about pet cremation. We do not cremate or bury pets. There are, however, a number of facilities in the area which do offer those services — give us a call if […]
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Anatomy of Suicide
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You don’t often think of Karl Rove and David Axelrod as being in agreement on anything. They mostly are on opposite sides of the fence. Rove, of course, worked in the White House for President George Bush, while Axelrod worked in the same setting, only for President Barack Obama. About as Ying and Yang as […]
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Finding Meaning in Death
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The author Shannon Alder once noted that we should carve our names on hearts, not on tombstones. How true. At Martin Oaks Cemetery and Crematory in Lewisville, Texas, we find ourselves dealing with those who have already passed away, the funeral directors they have chosen, the burial or cremation plans which have been made. But […]
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New Thinking on Obituaries
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In the course of doing cremations and burials at Martin Oaks Cemetery and Crematory in Lewisville, Texas, we frequently are asked about obituaries. Who writes them, how do they get published in local newspapers, questions such as these. Since we do many Dallas cremations, Fort Worth cremations, these inquiries are often focused on the two […]
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Facing Retirement
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When sportscaster Dick Enberg retired at the conclusion of the 2016 Major League Baseball season, he refused to use the word retirement. Instead, he said that he “graduated.” Sadly, he passed away a little more than a year later at the age of 82. His story is, in many ways, a familiar one today. Americans […]
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