1876 has been providing funeral and cremation services to families of Lexington and the greater Boston area for six generations. We have a compassionate, licensed staff available 24 hours that will guide you with the planning of a personalized funeral, cremation, graveside or memorial service. We also offer pre-planning arrangements and consultations.
The Douglass Parlor's traditional yet elegantly modern facility conveys a home-like ambiance, featuring two visiting rooms as well as lounge areas. We have a Media Room and a Media Director who can livestream services and create video tributes, service recordings, and other memorial items. Our expansive Selection Room features a wide array of casket styles.
The Douglass Parlor's traditional yet elegantly modern facility conveys a home-like ambiance, featuring two visiting rooms as well as lounge areas. We have a Media Room and a Media Director who can livestream services and create video tributes, service recordings, and other memorial items. Our expansive Selection Room features a wide array of casket styles.
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1876 has a rich heritage in funeral service, having provided funeral and cremation services to families of Lexington and the greater Boston area for six generations. In the year 1870, Ed Douglass married Priscilla Sprague and thereby had also married into the Sprague Funeral Home business, located in East Boston.
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Many who have undergone the emotional strain of arranging a funeral within hours of losing a loved one have made the choice to pre-plan their own funeral. Doing so lifts the burden from their loved ones by relieving decision-making pressure at a time of grief and emotional stress. Funeral arrangements are a deeply personal choice.
Someone you love has died. You are now faced with the difficult, but important, need to mourn. Mourning is the open expression of your thoughts and feelings regarding the death and the person who died. It is an essential part of healing. The following articles provide many practical suggestions to help you move toward healing in your unique grief journey.
Most of us are not prepared to plan and carry out a funeral ceremony for someone we love. And so much of the information available on this critically important subject fails to focus on what is most important: having a personalized, meaningful funeral that helps families and friends begin the healing process of mourning after the death of someone we love.
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Rony Khoury
Nov 25, 2019
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Alba Feliz
Oct 01, 2019
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Jen Coff
Jul 25, 2019
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Megan Zhang
Nov 21, 2018
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Culturally insensitive. At a family member’s wake one of the employees came into the room where our friends and family were gathered and accused the entire room of being “extremely disrespectful” because we had moved temporarily from the room of the family member’s coffin, exclaiming “this is not how it’s done” and “my job is to tell you how things are supposed to be done.”
My grandmother does not understand English but my father and I were extremely upset. When I confronted the gentleman, instead of apologizing, he told me that he “knows Chinese people” because he had done
My grandmother does not understand English but my father and I were extremely upset. When I confronted the gentleman, instead of apologizing, he told me that he “knows Chinese people” because he had done
Rose Fohrman
Oct 01, 2014
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Larry Grant
Jun 01, 2014
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To Whom It May concern:
I received an email that listed your Douglass Funeral Home, that a "friend of mine" had passed away, but I checked your Obituaries and didn't know anyone's name, that Ii recognized and reported the email to SCAM!
I only reason I didn't open the email, because the relative who did pass away, the email listed incorrect dates, viewing and no name!! I checked with the family, about which Funeral Home the deceased was at and they confirmed it wasn't the Douglass Funeral Home!!
Thank you, for posting that notice.
I received an email that listed your Douglass Funeral Home, that a "friend of mine" had passed away, but I checked your Obituaries and didn't know anyone's name, that Ii recognized and reported the email to SCAM!
I only reason I didn't open the email, because the relative who did pass away, the email listed incorrect dates, viewing and no name!! I checked with the family, about which Funeral Home the deceased was at and they confirmed it wasn't the Douglass Funeral Home!!
Thank you, for posting that notice.
