Our Edmonton Chapel is Not Your Typical Room

When you think about the rooms in your home – to visualize what each room means to you, and to really sit in the memories that each room holds, likely there is a vast range of emotion that comes along with the process. You recall the many meals prepared beside your mom in your kitchen as she taught you how to make all your favourite dishes. You remember giggling with your siblings as you raced through the hallways playing tag together, and the look on your mom’s face that was somewhere between a smirk and a warning to shut it down. You lovingly recall all the bedtime stories you read to your grandchildren after tucking them lovingly into their beds. Time spent with Dad in the garage learning how to change a tire. The rooms of ‘home’ hold so much meaning. 

Park Memorial Funeral HOME… the rooms in our home hold emotion and meaning, as well. The room that holds the most meaning for our community and our families that we have served is our chapel. It is the room where tens of thousands of lives have been honoured. Where a sea of tears has been shed. Where there is no math nor measure to the hugs that have happened within its walls. Where stories and memories have brought welcome giggles. Where sweet music has brought remembrance. And where countless heartbreaking goodbyes have been whispered and wept. 

It is also the room in our home that welcomes our families back each December for our Christmas Memorial Service. Where families begin to heal and to find meaning and hope in the togetherness of grief and loss. Where it is safe to sit in the emotions of grief in the company of others who understand firsthand. 

Not your typical room. Yet still a treasured part of our home. 

Our spacious, naturally lit chapel features seating for more than 300 guests, a separate choir loft, full audio-visual capability, and a quiet family room off to the side which the family can use to gather before and after the service, as well as to take a moment to breathe during the service as needed. It features a closed-circuit television so that if a family member needs to take a moment to collect themselves, they will not miss any of the funeral service. Our chapel is the perfect room in our home in which to honour the life of your loved one.