Jay E. Lowery Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc.

Rick Lowery and I would like to say thank you to everyone for all of their support over the years. We will officially be handing over our facebook pages to Stephanie and Paul Urban who are doing an amazing job with the previous transfer of the businesses. We wish yall the BEST Urbans; yall are serving an amazing community..... THANK YALL!

LOWERYS TO CHANGE HANDS Jay E. Lowery Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc. is changing hands and will be known as Lowery-Urban Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc. Sharon Lowery said, After 73 years of a Lowery running the home, Jay, Wayne and then Rick, we have come to a turning point of not having another generation in the area to continue the legacy.... Our three grown children, our 2 grandchildren along with the two on the way are all in Louisiana, Florida and Texas added Rick Lowery. Our plan, like all proud grandparents, is to spend more time watching them grow up Sharon commented. The Lowerys shared that they have selectively chosen The Urbans to become the successors of Lowery Services. They have 21 years of experience of working in funeral service and Paul has held a license for 17 years, Stephanie will be licensed this year. Paul played a vital role at his previous employment in Pittsburgh and is well rounded in all aspects of funeral service. Paul was very active in the PA Funeral Director’s Association, serving as its President in 2014-2015. Sharon commented, We feel very confident that the Urbans will continue our family owned legacy with the same ethics and quality of service to our community. The Urbans have three girls who are excited to be in the area and have been involved by their parent’s side and especially love helping and designing in the flower shop. Sharon explained, We are still currently dotting our Is and crossing our Ts to complete the transaction however The Urbans have settled in and are currently residing at the funeral home and managing the day to day operations at Lowery Services. Paul assured, We have no intentions of making any changes to the staff or the quality of services, other than our own personal touch. In our last few months of working side by side at Lowerys we feel we have an amazing team and we all work great together. We also know and trust that, as in the last few months, Rick and Sharon will continue to be there to encourage and support us anytime we need it or have questions. Clients who have current arrangements with Lowerys are safe as all parties agree that by law, pre-arrangements will remain governed under state regulations; however, anyone with questions can feel free to contact the funeral home and speak with the Urbans or Lowerys at 570.888.2368. Rick and Sharon would like to thank the community for the on-going support and love shown to them over the years with all community endeavors and they promise to be back in the area to visit. The Lowerys encouraged the Urbans regarding the family-like community to raise their girls and that they will find the same support from the Valley and grow to love and call it home.

We were snorting Vicodin off of the back of a Greenday CD case. We were just having fun. No one told us that we were essentially doing heroin. The Vicodin was ...replaced with OxyContin and our aspirations were replaced with daily hustling to avoid being sick. Then, we started dying. Kids from my school. Kids I played baseball with. Kids with great families. Kids who could have been anything. It was no longer fun. It was now tragic. We dealt with the trauma the best way we knew how we stayed high. For years. It wasn’t supposed to end up this way. Our guidance counselor used to talk to us about going to college. She never prepared us for what it was like to live as a heroin addict. I got sober but I will never forget my friends that didn’t. The ones that died. The ones in prison. The ones that are still walking amongst us self-medicated like the living dead. That’s why I never shut up about addiction. I want to make sure everyone hears the things that I needed to hear when I was seventeen.

TUESDAY IS LOWERY FUNERAL HOME CANDLELIGHT MEMORIAL SERVICE... CALL 888-2368. 15 Things I Wish I’d Known About Grief by TERYN O'BRIEN the holidays are always hard yet Any Loss at anytime is never easy..... I miss my Mother daily... After years of grief, I’ve learned a lot. We all make some mistakes along the way. Here are 15 things about grief to help with your own process. Godspeed on your journey. 1. You will feel like the world has ended. I promise, it hasn’t. Life will go on, slowly. A new normal will come, slowly. 2. No matter how bad a day feels, it is only a day. When you go to sleep crying, you will wake up to a new day. 3. Grief comes in waves. You might be okay one hour, not okay the next. Okay one day, not okay the next day. Okay one month, not okay the next. Learn to go with the flow of what your heart and mind are feeling. 4. It’s okay to cry. Do it often. But it’s okay to laugh, too. Don’t feel guilty for feeling positive emotions even when dealing with loss. 5. Take care of yourself, even if you don’t feel like it. Eat healthily. Work out. Do the things you love. Remember that you are still living. 6. Don’t shut people out. Don’t cut yourself off from relationships. You will hurt yourself and others. 7. No one will respond perfectly to your grief. Peopleeven people you lovewill let you down. Friends you thought would be there won’t be there, and people you hardly know will reach out. Be prepared to give others grace. Be prepared to work through hurt and forgiveness at others’ reactions. 8. God will be there for you perfectly. He will never, ever let you down. He will let you scream, cry, and question. Throw all your emotions at Him. He is near to the brokenhearted. 9. Take time to truly remember the person you lost. Write about him or her, go back to all your memories with them, truly soak in all the good times you had with that person. It will help. 10. Facing the grief is better than running. Don’t hide from the pain. If you do, it will fester and grow and consume you. 11. You will ask Why? more times than you thought possible, but you may never get an answer. What helps is asking, How? How can I live life more fully to honor my loved one? How can I love better, how can I embrace others, how can I change and grow because of this? 12. You will try to escape grief by getting busy, busy, busy. You will think that if you don’t think about it, it’ll just go away. This isn’t really true. Take time to process and heal. 13. Liquor, sex, drugs, hobbies, work, relationships, etc., will not take the pain away. If you are using anything to try and numb the pain, it will make things worse in the long run. Seek help if you’re dealing with the sorrow in unhealthy ways. 14. It’s okay to ask for help. It’s okay to need people. It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay. 15. Grief can be beautiful and deep and profound. Don’t be afraid of it. Walk alongside it. You may be surprised at what grief can teach you.

A MESSAGE FROM LOWERY FUNERAL HOME TO DRUG USERS AND THEIR LOVED ONES: At Lowery Funeral Home we are not here to argue if this is a choice or a disease - we are... here to say we see the other side - families destroyed and hearts broken as we prepare the bodies of those who are GONE FOR GOOD: SO LISTEN UP CLOSELY: This is not a video game people don't get up and return to life - It is brutally hard for us to watch people suffer in pain of losing someone - no one is ever suppose to bury a child, especially to an overdose! We would NEVER condone drug use however, our message to you as a user or prior user is this: YOU CANNOT FALL OFF THE WAGON AFTER BEING CLEAN AND GO BACK TO THE SAME AMOUNT YOU STOPPED WITH!!! Please read this again 3 times to understand it clearly. Our prayer is that each of you get clean and stay clean but in reality we have buried way too many who have struggled with a weak moment and said: Oh just this one time! ........ and did not realize that when you do drugs it iusually PROGESSES in stages: you start with maybe alcohol, then pot, then prescribed pills and then onto harsher things like meth, heroin etc. your body builds up a tolerance as you up the amount of drugs and various concoctions. When your body detoxes from this and you fall and take the same amount you stopped at, it can become a deadly decision that is unexpected to you and your loved ones. Please reach out to support groups and people whom you can call at all hours of the night when tempted and those who will tell you DON'T DO IT!! However if you do not, we beg you don't do the amount you stopped with because we DO NOT like to see this in our morgue! Please follow the links below for more information and support if you are a former user, a current user, or you know one! AND REMEMBER - YOU ARE LOVED, YOU HAVE SO MUCH POTENTIAL IN LIFE AND YOUR LIFE MATTERS!! WITH SINCERITY, THE LOWERY FUNERAL HOME STAFF http://www.learn2cope.org/facts-about-overdose/ https://www.facebook.com/valleyade/ Valley Support Group (Addiction and Drug Education)

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REMINDER TO ALL THIS VALENTINE'S DAY: If sending flowers from afar PLEASE DON'T call a conglomerate (large corporation) All they do is either contact a local shop and take a LARGE portion of your money for admin OR they ship in flowers which we have had arrive after the event date and/or frozen or dead. And MANY complain of battling to get a refund. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE google a LOCAL Mom and Pop Shop in the town your loved one/friend lives in and ask if they are independentl...y owned because these large corporations are tricky with their advertising as "LOCAL" so my clue is calling someone WITHOUT an 800 number. Good Luck and HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! KEEP CALM AND SEND FLOWERS! LIKE AND SHARE THIS FOR A CHANCE TO WIN THOSE FREE RAINBOW ROSES FOR YOUR SWEAT PEA, BUTTERCUP, POOKIE BEAR, ETC. ALSO SHARE YOUR PET NAMES HERE FOR 2 CHANCES TO WIN. See more

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