A Mass of Christian Burial will be held for James Fletcher here at St. Matthias Church on Monday, March 19th, at 11:00 a.m. The family will receive visitors in the church beginning at 10:00 a.m. Burial will follow the service at National Harmony Memorial Park, 7101 Sheriff Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20785.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Matthias Church on Saturday, March 24, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. Arrangements are provided by Advent Funeral Home, 9013 Annapolis Rd., Lanham, MD. Visitation hours at the funeral home are 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. and 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Friday, March 23, 2018. Burial will be at a later date at Arlington National Cemetery. Please keep the Falls family in your thoughts and prayers.
As we begin a new grief message this month our focus will be on how children face losses and how they express their grief. A number of people believe that babies and small children are unaware of a loss that occurs within a family. This is not totally true. Although they don’t understand the concept of death and the loss that ensues, they do sense that something is amiss. Their parents and others are sad , and perhaps weeping. They can easily respond to this with clinging and restless behavior.