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Florence Isaacs's Blog – August 2008 Archive (1)
Sending Sympathy Flowers
Q. My colleague’s elderly mother just died, and a group of us at the office want to send flowers. What is the protocol at such a time? Should flowers go to the funeral home or to the bereaved’s apartment? What types of flowers are best, and what should we say on the accompanying card? We want to show our support in the most appropriate way.
A. Thanks to Hollywood movies, we often think of lilies as traditional funeral flowers. In fact, the most commonly…
Added by Florence Isaacs on August 15, 2008 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment
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