St. Mary’s Hospice to Hold Annual Memorial Service

St. Mary’s Hospice Services will hold its annual Hospice Memorial Service on Sunday, Feb. 21, at 2 p.m. at Central Presbyterian Church in Athens to commemorate the lives of loved ones who died in 2015.

The Rev. Bill Hayes, St. Mary’s Hospice chaplain, will officiate.

The service is open to everyone, and people from the community are welcome.

Families and friends of hospice patients who died in the past year are especially invited.

The service is designed to help family members and friends memorialize those they lost in the past year.

People who were not hospice patients also can be remembered.

A reception will follow the service.

St. Mary’s Hospice Services provides care for individuals and families facing end-of-life issues in Athens-Clarke, Banks, Barrow, Elbert, Franklin, Greene, Hart, Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe and Walton counties.

For more information or to request that a loved one be included among those remembered at the service, please call St. Mary’s Hospice Services at 706.389.2273.