Our Featured Member
We have over 500 members located in the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, South Africa, England and Bermuda!
Heidi Heil
Twin Falls, ID
Serenity Funeral Chapel was founded in 2004 to provide an affordable, “locally owned”, option for funeral and cremation services in the Magic Valley. Heidi Heil, owner and licensed mortician, wanted to give back to this wonderful community in which she was born and raised. The Heil family has been in the community for five generations. Heidi was born in Twin Falls and raised and educated in Roseworth and Castleford. She attended Idaho State University and mortuary school at Mt. Hood
Community College in Gresham, Oregon where she graduated Valedictorian in 1997.
Heidi has gained extensive knowledge and experience in the funeral and cemetery industries working at a number of facilities in Idaho. Heidi realized the need for personalizing the funeral experience and making it a memorable occasion in celebrating the lives of the loved ones we have lost. Heidi knows the importance of detail and helping families through this very difficult time. Heidi and her staff will strive to exceed your expectations and make your life celebration experience one that you can remember and cherish as a time for celebrating the lives of your friends and loved ones. Heidi will be here for you with pre-planning your funeral, cremation, and cemetery arrangements, at the time of need, and far beyond in the days, weeks, months, and years that follow as a friend and advisor that you can count on and trust when it really matters.
Heidi also gives back to the community as a member of the Twin Falls Optimist Club and Childhood Cancer chair, as an Ambassador of the Twin Falls Chamber of Commerce, as a volunteer soccer coach with the Twin Falls Parks & Recreation, as an advisor for the St. Luke's Serenity Garden located at Sunset Memorial Park, as a board member for the Twin Falls Senior Center, and founder of the breast cancer awareness fundraising campaign, Tough Enough to Drink Pink.
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Leatrice Guttentag
Pataskala, OH
Leatrice Guttentag moved from New Jersey to Ohio after September 11, 2001.
On that day she had been working in her office on the 80th floor of the north tower of the world trade center. She escaped just minutes before the building collapsed. Her software engineering job, on wall street, was gone, but she reassessed her life and returned to her love of art.
Art was therapeutic and helped console her after losing many friends that day. Her dog Dozer, sensing her sadness, was a major comfort, providing Lee with unlimited love. After Dozer’s passing Lee sought a way to save Dozer’s ashes in a beautiful piece of glass art that would honor her beloved friend and so "Glass Remembrance" was born. "I consider what I do a form of art therapy for people and it is a way I can give comfort through my love of art".
Although we can no longer be with our loved one’s we can capture their memories in custom, hand blown glass tributes. In today’s highly mobile society people can be separated from a loved one’s resting place. Glass Remembrance www.glassremembrance.com , creates portable tributes that can always be part of your life.
We take a small portion of the actual ashes and encase it in a choice of glass sculpture while the glass is molten. Blown glass is done at a higher temperature then cremation and it burns off the gray carbon and leaves the cremains visible in the glass in a brilliant white color.
All our products are hand blown in the U.S and individually signed by talented glass artists who respect the love you have for departed and treat the ashes with reverence. All Glass Remembrance’s are made in Columbus Ohio and to see the glass line please visit www.glassremembrance.com
Silvia Engel
Lakewood Ranch, FL
Artist and jeweler Silvia Engel is on a mission to help heal those who are suffering with the loss a loved one. Having lost her beloved family pet, Kiki, years ago, Engel and her children were devastated and desired a special and unique way to memorialize their special friend. By combining both her artistic skills and her love for the cultural arts and colors of her native Varacruz, Mexico, Engel founded Love Ashes, a memorial jewelry company.
Since having founded Love Ashes in 2007, Engel has had the opportunity to help thousands of women from across the US and Mexico memorialize their loved ones in a classy new way.
Vibrant Materials Create A Lasting Tribute
Love Ashes carries a unique line of cremation jewelry that is hand made from dichroic glass. Dichroic glass, a material that was originally developed for use by NASA, boasts many thin layers of exotic metal oxides that are sprayed onto glass so that it creates reflective and refractive properties. By using such a vibrant material, Engel is able to create jewelry that brings alive the colors and textures of her seaside home in Veracruz.
“My collection has a unique style,” says Engel. “It looks different from other artists’ work, and I spend a lot of time making each piece. I have to be confident that each one is something I’d be proud to wear myself.”
A Process of Love
Although dichroic glass can be a difficult material to work with, Engel has created and perfected a technique that allows her to discreetly fuse ashes into her pendants. And, not only does this technique work, but it places the ashes towards the back of the pendant so they lay up against the skin and create a closeness between the one wearing it and the one who has passed.
Each Love Ashes piece is created by hand by Engel in her Lakewood Ranch, FL, studio and takes between five and six days to create. “It’s gratifying to know I’m helping others,” she says of the countless letters, photos, and kind words of appreciation that she receives each day. “Love Ashes is truly a business based on memories and love and I am grateful to have the opportunity to help others.”
To learn more about Love Ashes, view our products and order stunning memorial jewelry online; check out our website at loveashes.com.
Bea Nebel
Germany
Funeral Divas welcome our First German Member
Funeral Divas are strong, confident and successful women who work in the funeral industry. They are not ashamed of their careers! They are proud to serve hurting families! They are Embalmers, Funeral Directors and employees at funeral establishments across the World! They are grief counselors, casket sales women! They are women who support all women in Funeral Service! They simply love their careers! Funeral Divas’ purpose is to encourage and uplift every woman in the funeral service industry and to have fun at the same time!
We are proud to welcome our first German member Bea Nebel.
Bea Nebel is an embalmer in Hamburg, Germany. She became interested in funeral service as a young child while burying bumble bees and other animals. She searched for a job working in a funeral home for years but she was turned away because she was too young. After finishing her primary education she worked several advertising jobs and later got into a terrible accident that lead her to think about starting her career in funeral service. She volunteered at funeral homes in order to gain experience and began to really love the career. She was educated at an embalming school offered by the Verband Deutscher Thanatologen, British Institute of Embalmers, European Embalmers Association and the European and International Examination board of Mortuary Science.
Bea is now employed at Dabringhaus Bestattungen in Luebeck as the embalmer and memorial service counselor. She is also an embalming instructor and absolutely loves teaching her students. In spite of everything Bea has experienced, she remains faithful to the professional in which she has chosen. Embalming is a somewhat new profession in Germany and Bea is definitely making history with her desire for open casket viewing.
Simply put she loves her career.
