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How a Permanent Resting Place Can Help Your Loved Ones Cope With Grief
Choosing a final resting place is an important part of making your end of life arrangements. To help your loved ones in the grieving process, we recommend choosing a permanent resting place. It’s often hard to accept the finality of death, especially in this pandemic, as many are unable to join together to honor and

Memorial Day Weekend Information

A Note from the Forest Lawn Team and Community
At Forest Lawn we want to inform you of how we will continue to serve our clients. At this time, Forest Lawn will have limited staff available at our offices in order to maintain Social Distancing and keep our staff and clients safe and healthy. We are following all guidelines put out by the Nebraska

Our Commitment to Serve During Coronavirus
Given the current outbreak of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) and the impact the virus is having on our community, employees and families, we wanted to share our commitment to serve. Despite these uncertain times, we expect to continue to deliver the same level of excellence to families in our community. The health, wellbeing, and safety of

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Join us on an Arboretum Adventure!
May 23 Join us on an Arboretum Adventure! Thursday, May 23 2019 ⋅ 8:00 AM – 2:30 PM Forest Lawn Funeral Home, Cemetery & Crematory7909 Mormon Bridge Road,Omaha, Nebraska 68152 Join us on an Arboretum Adventure! From Brownville to Alliance, we facilitate a network of more than 100 arboretums and public gardens across
The Unknowns Film Screening
Veterans and the community are invited to watch a documentary film about America’s most sacred shrine. The Unknowns with special guest appearance by : Tomb Guard Lonnie Bertelson. Event is free and open to the public. RSVP is appreciated, 402-451-1000. Click here for our Event Flyer. Friday November 2nd at 10:00am Forest Lawn Funeral Home
Winners of the 2018 “What Memorial Day Means to Me” Drawing Contest
Thank you to all that entered, we had another successful and fun contest for 2018 We asked the students from Pinewood Elementary School here in Omaha to draw pictures of “What Memorial Day means to me.” They graciously accepted and we received an overwhelming response from the students. And the Winners for 2018 are:
Honor Flight One Last Mission: Event for Veterans and Community
Honor Flight is a heartwarming documentary about four living World War II veterans and a Midwest community coming together to give them the trip of a lifetime. Volunteers race against the clock to fly thousands of WWII veterans to Washington, DC to see the memorial constructed for them in 2005, nearly 60 years after the
Join us on an Arboretum Adventure!
Join us on an Arboretum Adventure! From Brownville to Alliance, we facilitate a network of more than 100 arboretums and public gardens across the state that demonstrate regionally appropriate plants, adaptability and sustainability. These gardens represent efforts of every size, many of them undertaken by volunteers that are cared for with pride and provide a