How To Make a Hobo Stove Out of a Tin Can. 1  Get yourself a tin can and cut a row of holes at the bottom and another row at the top, just under the lip of the can. 2  I recommend to cut triangle shapes as you can see in the pictures below.
We just did this with my dad last week. In the obit, we stated locations to make contributions in my dad's name in lue of flowers. We did have a few people send flowers to the funeral home for the family calling times (wake) and for the memorial service. They were then transferred to the cemetary. One family did choose to send a plant to the house but the rest that chose to send something, sent flowers for the service.
In the latter case, you might want to gather all of the sympathy cards, letters, gifts and flowers that were received by the mourner, and take some time to re-read each one to them and ask what they'd like to say to each person. Sympathy thank you notes are sent to acknowledge special expressions of kindness. For example, send them to people who gave a gift or donation, flowers, a letter of sympathy or a hand-written message in a condolence card, or made a memorial contribution.