Honoring Your Recently Deceased Loved One's Love Of Baseball

5 August 2016
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Prepare decorations, refreshments, and souvenirs for your recently deceased loved one's outdoor memorial service that are representative of their love of baseball with the ideas below. As a result, the service will be personalized and will help guests remember your family member in an accurate manner.

Purchase An Engraved Casket Or Add A Decorative Piece To The Top Of One

Purchase a casket and have an engraving added to the top of it that describes your loved one or depicts their hobbies. A personalized statement or quote or a picture of a baseball bat will provide the casket with an original appearance. 

If you do not want to have permanent changes made to your loved one's casket, create a decorative piece to place on top of its cover during the memorial service. A basket that is filled with baseballs and other equipment needed to play baseball or a framed photograph of your loved one playing baseball or sitting in a grandstand while watching a game will provide the casket with a unique and alluring appearance.

A company like Elmwood Casket Company can offer more help.

Play Ballpark Music While Serving Themed Food And Drinks

If your loved one often went to live baseball games, play some ballpark music and serve food items, such as hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, and any other food item that is typically sold during sporting events near the end of the memorial service. Offer beverages, such as soda or juice.

The lighthearted music, food items, and beverages will help reduce negative feelings that anyone may have been experiencing and may encourage guests to speak about your loved one and some of their fondest memories. Give each person the opportunity to speak openly about your loved one during this time.

Hand Out Screen-Printed Shirts

Order screen-printed shirts that have a picture of your loved one and a personalized quote added to them. Make sure that you purchase enough shirts for the number of guests who will be attending the memorial service. If possible, ask each person what size they will need, prior to the event. Once the service is over, hand out the shirts to each person who paid their respects during the service. The shirts can be worn to represent your loved one whenever each person would like, or can be stored away as keepsakes to be shared with future generations. 

All of these ideas will help the memorial service represent your loved one in a positive manner and clearly depict what type of person they were during their life.