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

Mark Forney has known he wanted to run a funeral home since the second grade. As general manager of Memorial Funeral Home, he's realized a lifelong dream to help people at the end of life.

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- ...

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