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In our blog, we share resources and information that families in our community can use to cope with their loss or better understand their grief. We also write about ways we have been involved in the community. Check out our latest posts below.

Team Spotlight: The Heart of Mayes Ward Dobbins

Posted on September 18, 2025 by J. Chad Pendley | Comments Off on Team Spotlight: The Heart of Mayes Ward Dobbins
Posted under General

When families choose Mayes Ward Dobbins, they aren’t choosing a building or a brand—they’re choosing people. The quiet problem-solvers who slip a tissue into a trembling hand. The directors who learn every loved one’s name and story. The attendants who notice the small details that make a service feel personal. These are the faces and […]

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The Connection Between Grief and Self-Care

Posted on August 25, 2025 by J. Chad Pendley | Comments Off on The Connection Between Grief and Self-Care
Posted under Grief, Grief Help, Health & Wellness, Women & Grief

The Connection Between Grief and Self-Care At Mayes Ward Dobbins Funeral Home, we have walked alongside families in our community for over a century. In that time, one truth has remained constant: grief touches every part of life. It doesn’t just affect the heart—it impacts the body, mind, and spirit. In the midst of loss, […]

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We Will All Have To Do It, But When?

Posted on June 18, 2024 by J. Chad Pendley | Comments Off on We Will All Have To Do It, But When?
Posted under General, Pre-Planning

Funeral Planning is a subject most of us turn away from. But the reality is that we will all have to face the subject sooner or later. Whether it be for a parent, grandparent, aunt, or uncle, we never know the timing. Like anything else, it is best to be prepared when the time does […]

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Target: Grieving Families

Posted on September 8, 2023 by J. Chad Pendley | Comments Off on Target: Grieving Families
Posted under Around the Funeral Home, General

Predators have preyed on grieving families for quite some time, but the newest way they are praying on families is disheartening. It is hard to believe that someone could be so low as to target a bereaved family. You may have seen this in the latest news, but we want to make sure our families […]

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Father’s Day

Posted on June 17, 2023 by J. Chad Pendley | Comments Off on Father’s Day
Posted under General, Holidays

  Father’s Day was first celebrated in 1910 in Spokane, Washington after Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a widower, voiced her opinion, and raised support for her idea to recognize male parents and have a day equivalent to Mother’s Day, which was established in 1870. Several years later in 1924, Father’s Day gained worldwide […]

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