Volunteers light symbolic votive candles. Photo courtesy Meadowlark Hospice
CLAY CENTER -- Celebrate the life of someone you have lost or in honor of someone at a Tree of Light Ceremony hosted by Meadowlark Hospice.
The ceremonies are held indoors and include music, litany and the reading of names of honored individuals. Special ornaments made by hospice volunteers will be presented to families. As the individuals’ names are read, a symbolic votive candle is lit. Individuals remembered do not have to be patients of Meadowlark Hospice.
The ceremony will also include memorial recognition of the Meadowlark Hospice patients who have passed from Nov. 1, 2018-Oct. 31, 2019.
2019 Tree of Light Schedule
Concordia -- Dec. 2 at 11 a.m. 1st Christian Church
Belleville -- Dec. 2 at 2 p.m. United Methodist Church
Washington -- Dec. 7 at 11 a.m. KSDS East Building
Marysville -- Dec. 7 at 2:30 p.m. Cambridge Place
Frankfort -- Dec. 7 at 5:30 p.m. Frankfort Public Library
Clay Center -- Dec. 8 at 2 p.m. First Baptist Church
Since 1990 Meadowlark Hospice has hosted Tree of Light Ceremonies in communities in their service area. This memorial tradition is coordinated by hospice volunteers.
Gifts to Meadowlark Hospice are made in memory of a hospice patient, someone who had passed away, or in honor of an individual still living. Meadowlark Hospice continues to use the gifts to help provide care to any person in need of hospice regardless of their ability to pay or cost not covered by insurance.