Can someone please help me with a quick grammar question? I’m writing an obituary and need help here. Commas are always a challenge for me. I either put them where they don’t really belong, or use them when unnecessary.
Should there be commas after family identifiers? As in “Larry was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Dwayne and Gloria Smith, his paternal grandparents, Len and Lisa Jones, and brother, Bill Jones.”
What you have there is exactly correct. Commas after the family identifiers are not needed since you have described the people in unique terms.
@Nrdsb4 Your first attempt looks good to me.
My condolences on your loss.
I agree: your use of commas makes everything crystal clear.
Adding more commas would confuse things rather than adding clarity, so I’d leave your clear message as you wrote it. Bravo!
After a recent death in our family, our family member’s close friend of two decades (who is an ordained minister but not associated with a congregation at present) contacted us and offered to officiate the memorial service. He is not asking to be compensated, but my DH wants to pay him the going rate. Do any of you know a ballpark figure for something like this?
Honorarium for ministers for funeral run between $100 and $300. Ask your funeral home for the figure in your area.
Thank you. Our relative donated his body to our local med school, so we don’t have a funeral home to help us, and the service is not in our city. You’ve given a good ballpark number, though.
There’s no real going rate, customs vary by region and faith. But this is an interesting chat https://www.caring.com/questions/gratuity-for-funeral-minister-standard-donation
I don’t think your friend will necessarily put in 8-10 hours, and he may want this to be his loving contribution, his own gift of the heart. But if he’s not associated with a church, not drawing income, maybe you find a nice way to word it, sending or bringing a check a few days after. We said something about how much we appreciated, how touched, and that we wanted her to be able to do something of her own choosing. In our case, we know it wasn’t spent on herself, but donated to a small emergency fund she managed.
Ymmv
SIL is on East Coast. Her East Coat niece is in Los Angeles and needs help moving from LA to Van Nuys. Any recommendations of companies. We are in Southern CA but hours away. If this was an emergency or illness I would run over. I THINK SIL just wants to help and has no idea how far away we are. I doubt girl even knows.
Thx
No idea is this is still in place but when I lived there, there were “day movers,” we found ours in the yellow pages, at the time. We were moving just a mile away but needed someone to lift the heavy boxes, move the bed, some furniture, and refrigerator. They charge a basic fee for x hours (3?,) then by addl hours. As I recall, very inexpensive and efficient. They were regulated (and licensed?) by the state.
The SR community my folks moved to had a few preferred movers on a short list that could be chosen. They charged by the piece of furniture. They moved the bed and a very few pieces of furniture and huge screen tv. It was very quick and less than 2 miles from their home to the new place.
There is a small chain called “two men and a truck”. There is probably something like that in CA.
What about Dolly?
One used to be able to rent. U-haul and several movers from that company.
Yes, when H was sick and I had to move D into her first after-college apt, I used movinghelp dot com (or something like that) - it was a partner of u-haul. We read reviews carefully before selecting a company - but were thrilled with how it worked out. Payment was through the site, not to the movers directly (except for a tip). Highly recommend it.
Do I buy an instapot on Black Fri? It would be the 3 qt, i think. Is that good for just 2 portions or?
Does anyone have experience with using Cost Cutters / SuperCuts, etc? Once again I’ve waited till my hair is out of control…we’re going out of town for the weekend and I’d love to get it done before we go. I’m banking on the fact that my usual hairdresser won’t have time for me.
Looking for a cut/color, but I could always just get a cut and do a color later on…
I use supercuts all the time. I have simple hair, though.