Lights of Love Memorial
Wednesday, November 12, 2018
Rialto Square Theater
102 N. Chicago St., Joliet
The upcoming holidays can be daunting when a loved one is no longer with us. Joliet Area Community Hospice hosts its 13th annual Lights of Love Memorial Tribute and Tree Lighting Ceremony for families to honor loved ones who are no longer with us.
This event brought to you by Kurtz Ambulance, Busey Bank and The Horton Group will take place Wednesday, November 12, 2018 at the Rialto Square Theater, 102 N. Chicago St., Joliet. Music, poetry, reflections and a beautiful video tribute fill the Rialto Square Theatre with the warmth of memories on the evening before Thanksgiving.
Participants receive a keepsake ornament in memory of their loved one along with a memorial ornament. When they hear the name of their loved one, families walk together on the Rialto’s stage to hang memorial ornaments on a Christmas tree.
A $20 donation includes a Keepsake ornament and five admission tickets to Lights of Love Memorial Tribute and Tree Lighting Ceremony a part of Home for the Holidays at the Rialto.
To register, visit joliethospice.org under the events tab or call 815-740-4104. Photos for the memorial tribute are due by November 7, 2018. JACH Lights of Love was nominated as one of the Best Events in The Herald-News Readers’ Choice awards for 2018. Joliet Area Community Hospice is your community’s not-for-profit hospice choice and a United Way Agency. REAL PEOPLE REAL CARE YOUR FAMILY
Joliet Area Community Hospice provides compassionate, professional hospice and palliative care to over 25,000 terminally ill patients and their families since 1982. In the past two years alone, Joliet Area Community Hospice provided over $1.2 million in charity care, community bereavement programs, unreimbursed pediatric hospice and palliative care, and community outreach. We are a not-for-profit corporation, state licensed, Medicare/Medicaid certified and supported by United Way of Will and Grundy Counties. We serve patients in greater Will, Grundy, LaSalle, Livingston, and Kendall counties along with portions of Cook, DuPage and Kankakee counties.
The mission of Joliet Area Community Hospice is to provide comprehensive, holistic, community based support service and care for terminally ill persons, their caregivers and loved ones without regard to economic status; to enable the dying person to live peacefully, in comfort, and with dignity to the last moment of life.
Joliet Area Community Hospice complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability or sex. Free language assistance services are available to our JACH patients/families. Call 1-800-360-1817 or 815-740-4104 TTY/TTD 815-460-3224.
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