Loved Ones Remembered

About 250 people got a chance for closure Sunday as the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre held a special memorial service for those they’ve lost over the last year.

The service, offered by the hospital’s spiritual and religious care services and the Health Sciences Foundation, drew a full house to the hospital auditorium with friends and family looking to remember loved ones who have passed away

A prayer service took place, run by the hospital’s full-time chaplains, Lidvald Haugen-Strand and Jim Hyder.

The service included a reading of names of those who were being remembered, said Georgie Hari, president and CEO of the Health Sciences Foundation.

That was followed by refreshments and fellowship, Hari said.

“I think that it’s important that we take the time to remember those that are no longer here,” she said.

“You don’t want to lose the past. You want to keep the legacy on that they’ve created when they were living.”

Many of the people at the service had a loved one included on the hospital’s Memorial Wall and in the Electronic Memory Book, Hari said. The wall and book are part of the Legacy of Care program, which provides an opportunity for family to preserve a loved one’s memory.

Sunday’s memorial was the first one held by the foundation at the new hospital, although such services were held in the old Thunder Bay hospitals, Hari said.

The hope is to make the service at the new hospital an annual one.

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