Article: Planning for goodbyes: Memorial Funeral Home has been assisting grieving families for more than 50 years.

Byline: Greg Miller

Jan. 27--Second-grade career days are rarely very specific. Some kids want to be baseball players, others want to be firefighters, and there always seems to be a doctor in the house. Mark Forney wanted to be a funeral director. "When I was little, I liked the cars," Forney said of hearses. "The cars were a big draw." Forney, now the general manager of Memorial Funeral Home, Crematory & Memorial Park Cemetery cracked the encyclopedia and pored over the information that would become the seed for the now 35-year-old's profession. When presentation day came around, Forney walked into his classroom at St. John's Lutheran Elementary ...

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