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A Time for Angels helps those who mourn

Gunderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services teams with clergy for event

The death of a loved one is the emotional equivalent of getting hit by a train. There’s almost nothing that can create the bewildering range of emotions that the death of a loved one can generate.

The range of emotions can include anger, fear, sadness, loneliness and other feelings that defy ordinary description. And those emotions can hit hardest during the holiday season.

The staff of Gunderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services is well aware of that. So for 22 years, they have organized an event called A Time for Angels to help soothe the pain of people who have experienced a recent loss.

A Time for Angels, which is for people of all faiths, is usually held at St. Olaf Lutheran Church. But bringing a lot of people together in the church would be a bad idea with COVID-19 surging. So the funeral directors and local clergy teamed up to create an entirely online event.

It will go live at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at youtu.be/rlZ52aAQaYE.

It will be posted on www.gundersonfuneralhome.com Sunday afternoon.

The service will feature messages from the Rev. Emily Sauer, pastor of St. Olaf Lutheran Church, and the Rev. Brian Feller of Holy Trinity Parish. Funeral directors will then read the names of people who died during the past year.

We thank Gunderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services for going above and beyond what a funeral home would generally be expected to do to serve those who mourn. The Rev. Emily Sauer and the Rev. Brian Feller also deserve credit for their key roles in this ceremony.

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