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By Kristan Dean
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In 2000 Kristan Dean began working with her family to bring
Merry Christmas From Heaven
®
to all who need the gifts’ mes-
sage of Comfort, Love, and Faith. Today she is the Vice President
of Marketing and one of the primary members of her family’s
Bereavement Ministry.
Thanks, in great part, to the thousands of funeral directors and
retailers nationwide who make Merry Christmas From Heaven
®
a
part of their communities, countless numbers of families reach out
to their family every year. Their bereavement ministry helps families
realize that those in Heaven live forever in our hearts. Their love is
with us always.
Prior to Mooney TunCo, Inc. Kristan worked with companies nation-
wide helping them build revenues by creating greater sales opportuni-
ties through the use of sales intelligence and marketing alignment.
When you read the Elevator, the Spiritualist and the
Rabbi, what comes to mind? Does this combination
sound like the beginning of a joke? I see your point.
Put these three things together and I can only imagine
the punch line. If you are remembering my last two
columns you know the Elevator, the Spiritualist and
the Rabbi are not part of a joke.
Three columns in to my Dad’s stay at Beth Israel Hos-
pital’s Surgical Intensive Care Unit and I may have my
head around how to write about the hospital’s elevator.
Why do I want to tell you about the elevator? The el-
evator isn’t that special. What is special is how the el-
evator bypasses where I think I need to be to take me
to where I actually need to go.
Think back to July’s column and you might remem-
ber how getting off on the wrong floor brings me right
to a woman who is back at Beth Israel almost one year
to the day after her fiancé dies. Thanks to getting off
on that floor she is able to tell me about him and how
she is now there to sit with her friend who is recovering
in the same room her fiancé left when he went to ICU
for the last time. As different as this may sound she and
I know she now has Merry Christmas From Heaven®
because of her late fiancé and that elevator.
To write this column I have to set aside how strange
it feels to write about connections that take place be-
cause of things far more powerful than any human be-
ing. Be it love, faith, or a combination of the two plus
so much more than I can explain I know that the Cre-
ator of All is with us and within us every moment of
every day. Let go and let God is more than a saying, it
is what carries me when all of my strength is gone.
Even before I realize He is leading the way, God has a
way of letting me know I need to follow. In the lobby of
the Farr Building at Beth Israel Hospital while talking
on the phone with my sister Jacqui, I come to a com-
plete stop when I feel an energy pass right through me.
I cannot tell you what it is because I do not have an ex-
planation that makes sense. What I can say is for me,
whatever that energy is it is divinely driven. After telling
my sister about the strange feeling walking through my
body I hang up and head straight for the elevator. No
surprise, the elevator takes me to the perfect wrong floor.
I get off the elevator and walk smack into the Hos-
pital’s Spiritualist. I almost don’t believe the timing
then I realize the timing isn’t mine and it isn’t hers.
Somehow the energy downstairs in the lobby takes me
onto the elevator to the perfect person to tell about my
brush with the spirit of the hospital and she knows my
Dad. We say a prayer and go our separate ways until I
meet her again when they are transferring my Dad into
the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.
Now I know why that energy took me right to her.
Thanks to our connection when she tells me she will
hold the space in ICU while they are admitting my fa-
ther I am able to go into the hall, sit on the floor, and
connect with the Creator of All! In that moment in
that hallway God holds my hand and holds me up. I
know the energy is divinely driven. I just wish I could
tell you about the Rabbi, The Cot, The Mother In-law
and My Dad. Unfortunately I am way over the word
limit for this column. Thankfully I can share their wis-
dom with you next month.
fied and meaningful monu-
ments since 1997 and now
brings that expertise to Sa-
gel Bloomfield. Many fam-
ilies are also electing to in-
clude monuments with their
prefunded funeral arrange-
ments.
Sagel Bloomfield’s cus-
tomized monument de-
sign services include: bronze
markers, granite markers,
production and installation
of monuments, inscriptions
and various unveiling cus-
toms to suit specific individ-
ual and family needs, style,
and beliefs, and private fam-
ily mausoleums.
While cemeteries and
monument dealers offer a
range of products and servic-
es, working with them often
incurs additional costs and
stress at an emotional time in
an individual and/or family’s
life. Sagel Bloomfield’s new
offering is the latest demon-
stration of its commitment
to making all aspects of a fu-
neral service easy and simple
for their families. Further,
Sagel Bloomfield’s newmon-
ument design services are
available for purchase even
when another funeral home
provides the initial servic-
es, extending the company’s
long-standing promise to de-
liver top-quality, personal-
ized services at cost-effective
rates.
“As experts in the funeral in-
dustry, we know the process
of designing and selecting a
monument can be extreme-
ly stressful and some families
even say it’s harder than the
actual funeral was. Our fair
pricing and no pressure sales
philosophy of “people before
profits” creates a comfortable
environment where families
are put at ease. When a fam-
ily elects to work with us for
their monument needs, they
are already comfortable and
familiar with our caring and
professional staff. Families
that have not worked with
us for their funeral needs will
immediately feel comfort-
able with our warm and nur-
turing staff who shares in our
sales philosophy of “people
before profits,” said Bloom-
field, funeral director, co-
owner and managing part-
ner of Sagel Bloomfield.
Sagel Bloomfield Danzan-
sky Goldberg Funeral Care,
Inc. (Sagel Bloomfield) is
a family-owned funeral
home in the heart of Rock-
ville, MA. Sagel Bloomfield
brings a long history of ex-
perience and a 90-year tra-
dition of caring that make
it a trusted partner for be-
reaving Jewish and, increas-
ingly, non-Jewish families
who need simple, flexible
and
competitively-priced
funeral packages combined
with the highest service lev-
els driven by compassion for
families. Sagel Bloomfield’s
full-service concept blends
a convenient, cost-effec-
tive package approach with
more traditional services.
Sagel Bloomfield’s indepen-
dent ownership is 100 per-
cent focused on meeting the
needs of the local commu-
nity. High-quality services,
integrity, dedication to cus-
tomer care and deep roots
in the community are key
building blocks of the repu-
tation Sagel Bloomfield has
built across the DC. met-
ro area over multiple gen-
erations. For more informa-
tion about Sagel Bloomfield
and its monument design
ROCKVILLE,MD—
Sa
gel
Bloomfield
Danzansky
Goldberg Funeral Care,
Inc.
(Sagel Bloomfield), a
leading full-service funer-
al home in the Washington,
DC metropolitan area, an-
nounces the launch of its
unique monument design
services as the most recent
expansion of its value-add-
ed services for families and
the larger community. With
this newest offering, Sagel
Bloomfield becomes the first
funeral home in the area to
offer monument design ser-
vices for any and all area
cemeteries, and continues
to move closer to its goal of
becoming the go-to full-ser-
vice funeral home in the lo-
cal area.
Sagel Bloomfield’s new
monument design services
extend the company’s capa-
bilities and position as a re-
source with a blend of tradi-
tional funeral services with
more contemporary, for-
ward-thinking practices to
serve greater varieties of in-
dividuals and families. While
this service is a new offer-
ing at Sagel Bloomfield,
Al
Bloomfield,
has been de-
signing and working with
families to create digni-
Sagel Bloomfield Becomes the First Area Funeral
Home to Offer Unique Monument Design Services
