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Larry Ross, an elementary school teacher from Canaan, Maine and his Red Hat Entourage made up of school children from the Margaret Chase Smith School in Skowhegan, have also made the long trip down to Arlington for the annual event. Recognizable by their red winter hats, the class and chaperones raise money throughout the school year to help with the wreath-laying.

The Civil Air Patrol has over 65,000 volunteer members nationwide who donate their time and resources to train for disaster relief, emergency services, cadet programs and aerospace education for the public. Civil Air Patrol officers and cadets have been involved with Worcester Wreath for several years in decorating and laying wreaths in Arlington National Cemetery.

When Morrill and Karen Worcester decided to take this project nationwide, the Civil Air Patrol accepted the challenge. And the Blue Bird Ranch of Jonesboro, Maine has donated the truck transportation of wreaths from Harrington, Maine to Arlington National Cemetery since 1992.

Drivers and their families have also participated in the ceremony and wreathlaying.

American Legion and VFW members have volun-

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teered their time from the start in 1992. Congregating the Sunday morning before the annual trek, veterans and their families decorate the wreaths with hand tied bows. Veterans from both organizations also participate in the wreath-laying ceremonies in Maine and in Washington D.C. Annin & Company is the oldest and largest manufacturer of flags in the United

States. With the introduction of the Wreaths Across America campaign, Annin & Company will be donating both American and service specific flags for each ceremony wreath that will be used at the over 230 state and national cemeteries and monuments across the country.

Interstate Container and International Paper both support the Arlington Wreath Project and

Congratulations to Jim and Kevin on your beautiful new facility.

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Wreaths Across America by donating the corrugated storage boxes that are used to ship the wreaths from their birthplace at Worcester Wreath in Harrington, Maine to their eventual homes adorning the grave markers of our nation’s fallen heroes.

United Parcel Service joined the Wreaths Across America campaign in 2006 by donating all shipping expenses to each of the over

230 state and national cemeteries and monuments across the country.

Pinette & Lynch Funeral Home and Cremation Services is proud to support the efforts of the Worcester family to honor our nation’s veterans, and they encourage others to become involved, as well.

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CONGRATULATIONS with your new state of the art facility and convenient location

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he 2006 holiday season was the 16th consecutive year of the initiative begun by Harrington, Maine’s Morrill Worcester to “renew our commitment to honor the men and women of the armed forces who have served, and those who are currently serving, our country. To each, and especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice, we owe unwavering support and a profound debt of gratitude for preserving the way of life we all enjoy here in the United States of America.”

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Welcome to the new

Pinette & Lynch Starting in 1992, Worcester Wreath Company began donating over 5,000 wreaths each holiday season to adorn the headstones of fallen veterans at Arlington National Cemetery. In 2006, the effort was broadened into the Wreaths Across America campaign to honor veterans in every state and national cemetery in America.

Back then, the company found itself with a surplus of wreaths near the end of the

season. With the help of Senator Olympia Snowe, arrangements were made to place those wreaths in one of the older sections of Arlington National Cemetery, a section receiving fewer visitors each year.

A number of other participants began their support for the project. James Prout, owner of Blue Bird Ranch, Inc. generously provided transportation all the way to Virginia. Volunteers from the local American Legion and VFW Posts gathered with members of the community to decorate each wreath with signature red, hand-tied bows. Members of the Maine State Society of Washington, D.C. and John Metzler, Jr., superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery, worked to organize the wreath-laying, including the incorporation of a special ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

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n behalf of generations of the Pinette, Dillingham and Lynch families, as well as the thousands of families it has been our great privilege to serve, it is our great honor to welcome you to the newest and finest facility in the Lewiston-Auburn area to meet memorial and funeral needs of those from throughout central Maine: Pinette and Lynch Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 305 Alfred Plourde Parkway, just behind the Lewiston Ramada hotel.

The beautiful and comforting 11,000 square foot, stateof-the-art facility replaces the aged Pinette locations at 87 Bartlett Street and 1065 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, and we are pleased that the Dillingham & Son chapel, at 62 Spring Street in Auburn, has been renovated and remains available to those for whom an Auburn location is more convenient.

Both the Pinette and Lynch and Dillingham and Son chapels are independent, family owned facilities, operated by generations of Lewiston and Auburn families beginning in the 19th century. The newest facility is designed to meet the ever-changing needs of the 21st century, but to do so in ways which are consistent with our more than six generations of compassion, professionalism, comfort and convenience.

We invite you to visit us at anytime to learn about the wide range of options available to the families of today, but especially we hope you are able to join us during our Open House event.

Sincerely,

James and Kevin Lynch

Jim Lynch

Kevin Lynch

This Pinette & Lynch Funeral Home and Cremation Services supplement is published by the Special Sections department of the Sun Journal. Content was supplied by Pinette & Lynch, freelance writer Rich Livingston, and Jeff Haggerty. Editorial and business offices are at 104 Park St, Lewiston, Maine 04243. For advertising rates and information, please call Joyce Franklin at 6892924, or Jody Jalbert at 6892913. To learn how you can have your business’ supplement published by the Sun Sournal Special Sections department, contact Jeff Haggerty at 689-2991. No part of this publication may be reproduced, in any form, without the written permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.

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Centuries of tradition meets state-of-the-art

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he Pinette Funeral homes on Bartlett and Lisbon Streets that have been replaced by the million-dollar plus facility on Alfred Plourde Parkway were built for a simpler time, according to Pinette & Lynch family spokesman, James Lynch. “Napoleon Pinette, who established the first Pinette funeral home in Lewiston in 1912, was something of a visionary,” Lynch explained. “He recognized the need for space in which loved ones could gather comfortably to honor the deceased, and he was among the first to meet those needs with an independent funeral chapel. The first location, at 413 Lisbon Street, was easy to walk to, and was serviced by the trolleys.”

But, funeral needs have changed, and the new chapel provides a variety of choices. Accessibility to automobiles has become far more important. Families’ needs have evolved and people now need access to a wider variety of service options than ever before, in order to properly celebrate the life of their loved one.

The new Pinette & Lynch Funeral Home and Cremation Service can accommodate traditional visitation, cremation and more elaborate events of tribute and memorial processions to a church or cemetery.

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planning, and the new location only makes the whole process more convenient and less stressful than ever.   

The new Tribute Room display area illustrates the full range of options available, in terms of both services and products. It is a one-stop venue for addressing everything associated with providing a fitting tribute or memorial including the kind of service to be conducted; a variety of burial or cremation choices; an extensive array of caskets from the simplest pine to more ornate mahogany, walnut, cherry or oak, or metals; embalming options; vaults, burial urns, even cemetery site selection and monuments can all be addressed in one convenient location.

The counselors can help guide you through a variety of considerations that can customize the commemoration to suit the personality, the achievements, the friends and family of the deceased, and to do so with all the dignity, love and devotion such times demand.

Pre-planning may or may not include pre-funding: those are decisions that can be discussed during the consultation. Pre-funding assures that all funeral expenses will be paid, even if your estate is financially depleted and inflation has increased the costs of funerals.

Whatever decisions you make, you are encouraged to put your preferences in writing, give copies to family members and your attorney, and keep a copy in a handy place – not as part of a will which will usually not be addressed until after a funeral, and not in a safe deposit box that often cannot be accessed in an emergency. Careful planning and consultation can help anticipate such considerations and ease the logistical difficulties for the survivors as well as alleviating some of the inevitable emotional distress.

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For added convenience, we have memorial monument displays and floral selections to choose from for your loved one.

Congratulations on your new facility.

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The spaciousness and elegance is impressive upon entering the new facility, giving visitors a sense of warmth and openness.

At 11,000 square feet, and able to sit as many as 400 for a service, the new facility is among the largest in the state. But, the large chapel can easily be partitioned into smaller, more intimate rooms as well, enabling the facility to serve large or small gatherings with equal sensitivity and comfort.

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ne of the most loving and caring things you can do for your family is reduce the emotional and financial burden during a difficult time for them, and spare them from the need to make painful decisions quickly and under stress. Many people now include funeral planning as an extension of will and estate planning by designating their own personal preferences in advance and often pre-funding expenses, as well.

With parking for 90 cars, garages for processional vehicles, and conveniently situated near outer Lisbon Street and connector routes that unify all of Lewiston – not to mention easy access to the Turnpike, as well – the Alfred Plourde Parkway site is the ideal location from which to deploy processions.

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The intent of the new chapel is to preserve the historical legacy of more than a century of caring, compassionate service to the bereaved of central Maine, but to do so in ways which provide access to the newest technology, ultimate convenience, complete comfort, along with the dignity and tradition that have epitomized the ways in which the Pinette, Dillingham and Lynch families have met the needs of Lewiston-Auburn area families for many decades.   

Funerals can often rank among the most expensive purchases some families will ever make, yet when a loved one dies, grieving family and friends are confronted with dozens of options to be considered, with decisions to be made under enormous time constraints.

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Often, the most difficult stage of the funeral process involves making arrangements after an unexpected death occurs, but the new chapel is designed to minimize the discomfort during that process, as well. The new Tribute Room presents a huge selection of caskets illustrated by tasteful, small sectional components, without open covers – much less overwhelming than traditional displays.

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• What kind of funeral should it be?

• Should you bury or cremate the body, or donate it to science?

• What are you legally required to buy?

• What other arrangements should you plan?

• And, as callous as it may sound, how much is it all going to cost?

Each year, Americans I am pleased to have played grapple with these and many a part in your move! other questions as they spend billions of dollars arranging more than 2 million funerals for family members 689-9822 and friends. The increasing 34 Center Street trend toward pre-need planAuburn, ME 04210 ning suggests that many consumers want to compare prices and services so that ultimately, the funeral reflects a wise and well-informed purchasing decision, as well as a meaningful one.

Pre-planning consultaThank you for the tions have always been an opportunity of important element of services provided by Pinette & serving you in your Lynch and by Dillingham painting needs. and Son, but the practice has been growing in popularity in recent years, and the new chapel on Alfred Plourde Parkway is designed to make the pre-planning process RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL – INDUSTRIAL Since 1960 easier still.

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Another new offering today in funerals and memorialization is a big screen for Memorial Tribute Videos. More and more families are seeing the value of photos put to favorite music that shows how meaningful that life was to their family.

The chapel features full screen video capabilities that enable the family to highlight the happier times and the loved one’s accomplishments, and lots of families are learning just how meaningful and comforting an audio/ visual tribute can be.

The selection of caskets covers the full spectrum of pricing options as well, from minimal to the most ornate. A full array of cremation urns, models of burial vaults, along with memorial stationary, visitation registers, cemetery monuments and cremation keepsakes is also presented for discreet, tranquil review. Arrangements for flowers, or any sort of special commemoration, can be made right on site.

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Compassion

Design and construction: Brothers’ visions

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Three-quarters of a century after its inception, the Pinette funeral homes (by now including two locations: 87 Bartlett Street and the newer chapel at 1065 Lisbon Street) owner, Raoul Pinette, a past president of the National Funeral Directors Association, sold the business to James and Kevin Lynch, both of whom were 1982 graduates of the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science.

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n late 2005, the Bilodeau brothers – Richard and Normand – sold a parcel of land on the Alfred Plourde Parkway, behind the Lewiston Ramada hotel, to the Lynch brothers – Jim and Kevin. The Lynch brothers retained the services of the Gendron brothers – John and Todd, Gendron & Gendron/General Contractors – to build a state-of-theart new funeral facility that can provide clients with compassionate, custom services in ways previously unavailable in central Maine.

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“Generations of families had come to rely on our old facilities on Lisbon Street and on Bartlett Street,” Jim Lynch explained, “but those were built for a different era. People tended to conduct their entire lives in small neighborhoods.

They’d walk to work, to church, to shop, and for funerals. We’d known for some time that in order to better serve 21st century Lewiston families, we would need facilities that were more accessible, more comfortable and accommodating than our old homes.

After searching throughout adjacent areas of Lewiston, the perfect site, behind the Ramada on Alfred Plourde Parkway, became available in 2005.”

While the Lynch brothers knew generally how they wanted the new facility to function, they turned for design help to Dick Dudley, SEE DESIGN PAGE 7

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The Lynch brothers have operated the homes since 1986. During the next 10 years, the Lynch brothers developed a close working relationship with the Dillingham family, which had continued to operate the chapel founded by Civil War veteran Charles Dillingham. The Lynch brothers acquired the Dillingham & Son chapel in 1996.

The beautifully renovated Dillingham & Son chapel provides visitation rooms that can accommodate either funeral or memorial ceremonies, and founder Charles Dillingham’s greatgreat grandson, Jack, remains a member of the dedicated staff and preserves the family tradition.

The newest Pinette & Lynch Funeral Home and Cremation Services facility replaces the two venerable Pinette locations in Lewiston, but the Dillingham & Son chapel will continue to serve those for whom Auburn is a more convenient venue, at 62 Spring Street. 

We are proud to offer to the families we serve another new experience in selecting funeral or memorial merchandise in a more soothing and open atmosphere that is less overwhelming than the older, traditional way of open lid covers in a crowded selection room. All casket merchandise is modular with photos showing an open or closed casket that makes merchandise selection easier.

Memorial merchandise includes stationary; keepsakes; cremation urns; cremation jewelry; and cremation caskets. We also include, for added convenience, memorial monument displays for the selection of a monument for your cemetery lot, and floral selections for your loved one.

Congratulations on your New Facility!

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Three centuries of compassion

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he new Pinette & Lynch Funeral Home and Cremation service is the fulfillment of a legacy that began just after the Civil War and the expansion of the massive textile and footwear mills powered by the Great Falls, in 1871, with the establishment of Dillingham and Son Memorial Chapel, and was strengthened by the arrival, in 1912, of the Pinette Funeral Home.

The new 3,300 sq. ft. Chapel may be divided into three viewing / gathering rooms that cover multi functions, from the simplest need to honor and accomodate families to receive large groups of family and friends who wish to share their personal condolences before and after services.

Best Wishes to Kevin and Jim on your new, beautiful facility.

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Napoleon Pinette was a woodsman who worked with F.X. Marcotte Furniture and Undertaking in the first decade of the 20th century as a furniture mover and livery worker. Pinette acquired the charter to the undertaking business from F.X. Marcotte in 1912, and in 1925 established the new concept of a funeral home, originally at 413 Lisbon Street.

Before then, wakes and receptions were held in private homes, but that became impractical as apartments and tenements proliferated at the height of the industrial age. The Lisbon Street Pinette Funeral Home was located on the main trolley line that connected all corners of the twin cities as well as the train terminal that served families arriving from Canada. It accommodated the needs of families who simply did not have enough room at home to host friends and relatives at the time of greatest need.

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an old family friend and New Hampshire architect. Dudley’s inviting design was predicated on an open campus concept, with the building itself dominated by lots of windows to create a warm, light and airy atmosphere, dramatically less austere than that typically associated with funeral homes of the early half of the last century.

The design was intended to be comforting, convenient, even refreshing; to meet the ever expanding needs of modern families; to accommodate services of all sizes, faiths and personal styles.

When the time came to select contractors, there was no debate. “Dave Gendron has been moving snow from our lots since 1978,”

Lynch explained. “He’d bring in a front-end loader at all hours of the night to make sure the homes were ready to receive guests when they needed to be. We’ve simply had a long-term business relationship that made our selection process really easy.”

A seven-month construction cycle to create the 11,000-square foot, million-dollar plus facility began on May 1, 2006. The same Dave Gendron who has been working at the Pinette funeral sites for years was responsible for site work at the new location and for excavating and pouring the foundation.

The Gendrons selected Maine architects Port City Design, of Portland, to bring Dick Dudley’s vision to fruition. The Gendron building crew was directed by a cousin, Tony Gendron. More than a dozen local area

subcontractors were employed for drywall, plumbing, heating, glass work, siding, overhead doors, painting, carpeting and floors, paving, electrical, sprinklers, etc.

A mild December enabled RC Paving to complete the 90-car parking lot on December 6, long after paving season typically has ended. The last cosmetic clean-up work and painting touch-up was still being done on the morning of December 27, 2006, but through the heroic efforts of everyone involved with the construction efforts, the chapel was able to accommodate the needs of the family of an accident victim later that same day.

The new Pinette and Lynch Funeral Home and Cremation Services facility opened officially on January 1, 2007.   

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Celebrating and honoring the life of a deceased loved one is among the most personal, private and poignant processes in which bereaved families and friends will ever engage. Vital to the grieving

The Lynch brothers are dedicated to resisting the industry trend toward consolidation into large, corporate organizations. Instead, there is a commitment that Pinette & Lynch will strive to do everything possible to meet the specific, individual needs of Lewiston and Auburn families, as their predecessors have done for more than 100 years. No special requests are required – ownership has its privileges – to help meet families’ special or unusual requests.

And the families of Pinette, Lynch and Dillingham have been part of the fabric of the local community, members and supporters of a wide range of community organizations and programs.

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Every family is different, and not everyone wants the same type of funeral. Funeral practices are influenced by religious and cultural traditions, costs and personal preferences. These factors help determine whether the funeral will be elaborate or simple, public or private, religious or secular, and where it will be held.

They also influence whether the body will be present at the funeral, if there will be a viewing or visitation, and if so, whether the casket will be open or closed, and whether the remains will be buried or cremated.

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Keith Samson • Funeral Staff•

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Among the choices that must be made are whether one of the basic types of funerals, or something in between, is most appropriate. Basic types include Traditional/full service, which usually includes a viewing or visitation and formal funeral service, use of a hearse to transport the body to the funeral site and cemetery, and burial, entombment or cremation of the remains.

More choices and options are available to families, especially with cremation, in which a ceremony can be held before or after cremation. The counselors of Pinette & Lynch are experienced with all options and can help guide families to an appropriate resolution, often at a time when they are least prepared to have to make such decisions.

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Bruce Ouellette • Funeral Staff•

Roland R. Perreault • Long time Licensed Funeral Director with Pinette Funeral Home • Semi Retired

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Pinette & Lynch Funeral Home and Cremation Services, along with the affiliated Dillingham and Son Memorial Chapel in Auburn, are members of Selected Independent Funeral Homes®, a 90 year old worldwide association of approximately 1,500 independent, locally owned funeral homes. Its members operate under the strictest standards and best practices to offer confidence and preserve trust during times of need. As a professional association, they actively monitor their members to help ensure that families receive the best care available.

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Raymond “Blackie” Boulet • Funeral Staff•

Linda Gagne Secretary/Bookkeeper

“As funeral directors, our calling imposes upon us special responsibilities to those we serve and to the public at large. An important obligation is to provide information so that everyone can make knowledgeable decisions about funeral services and funeral firms.

In acceptance of their responsibilities, and as a condition of their affiliation with Selected Independent Funeral Homes, our members affirm the following standards of Good Funeral Practice and hereby pledge:

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To provide the public with information about funerals, including prices, and the functions, services and responsibilities of funeral directors; To afford an ongoing opportunity to all persons to discuss or arrange funerals in advance;

To make funerals available in as wide a range of price categories as necessary to meet the needs of all segments of our community, and to affirmatively extend to everyone the right of inspecting and freely considering them all; To quote conspicuously in writing the charge for every funeral offered, and to clearly identify the services, facilities, equipment and merchandise included in such quotations; To furnish each family, at the time funeral arrangements are made, with a written memorandum of charges and to make no additional charge without the approval of the pur chaser;

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To make no representation, written or oral, which may be false or misleading and to apply a standard of honesty in all dealings; To respect all faiths, creeds and customs; and to give full effect to the role of the clergy;

To maintain qualified and competent staff, complete facilities and suitable equipment required for comprehensive funeral service; To assure those we serve the right of personal choice and decision in making funeral arrangements;

To be responsive to the needs of the financially strained, serving them within their means;

To comply fully with the requirements of the FTC Trade Regulation Rule (U.S.) on funeral practices.

We pledge to conduct ourselves in every way and at all times in such a manner as to deserve the public trust, and to place a copy of this Code of Good Funeral Practice in the possession of a representative of all parties with whom we arrange funerals.”

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he new Pinette & Lynch Funeral Home and Cremation service is the fulfillment of a legacy that began just after the Civil War and the expansion of the massive textile and footwear mills powered by the Great Falls, in 1871, with the establishment of Dillingham and Son Memorial Chapel, and was strengthened by the arrival, in 1912, of the Pinette Funeral Home.

The new 3,300 sq. ft. Chapel may be divided into three viewing / gathering rooms that cover multi functions, from the simplest need to honor and accomodate families to receive large groups of family and friends who wish to share their personal condolences before and after services.

Best Wishes to Kevin and Jim on your new, beautiful facility.

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Napoleon Pinette was a woodsman who worked with F.X. Marcotte Furniture and Undertaking in the first decade of the 20th century as a furniture mover and livery worker. Pinette acquired the charter to the undertaking business from F.X. Marcotte in 1912, and in 1925 established the new concept of a funeral home, originally at 413 Lisbon Street.

Before then, wakes and receptions were held in private homes, but that became impractical as apartments and tenements proliferated at the height of the industrial age. The Lisbon Street Pinette Funeral Home was located on the main trolley line that connected all corners of the twin cities as well as the train terminal that served families arriving from Canada. It accommodated the needs of families who simply did not have enough room at home to host friends and relatives at the time of greatest need.

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an old family friend and New Hampshire architect. Dudley’s inviting design was predicated on an open campus concept, with the building itself dominated by lots of windows to create a warm, light and airy atmosphere, dramatically less austere than that typically associated with funeral homes of the early half of the last century.

The design was intended to be comforting, convenient, even refreshing; to meet the ever expanding needs of modern families; to accommodate services of all sizes, faiths and personal styles.

When the time came to select contractors, there was no debate. “Dave Gendron has been moving snow from our lots since 1978,”

Lynch explained. “He’d bring in a front-end loader at all hours of the night to make sure the homes were ready to receive guests when they needed to be. We’ve simply had a long-term business relationship that made our selection process really easy.”

A seven-month construction cycle to create the 11,000-square foot, million-dollar plus facility began on May 1, 2006. The same Dave Gendron who has been working at the Pinette funeral sites for years was responsible for site work at the new location and for excavating and pouring the foundation.

The Gendrons selected Maine architects Port City Design, of Portland, to bring Dick Dudley’s vision to fruition. The Gendron building crew was directed by a cousin, Tony Gendron. More than a dozen local area

subcontractors were employed for drywall, plumbing, heating, glass work, siding, overhead doors, painting, carpeting and floors, paving, electrical, sprinklers, etc.

A mild December enabled RC Paving to complete the 90-car parking lot on December 6, long after paving season typically has ended. The last cosmetic clean-up work and painting touch-up was still being done on the morning of December 27, 2006, but through the heroic efforts of everyone involved with the construction efforts, the chapel was able to accommodate the needs of the family of an accident victim later that same day.

The new Pinette and Lynch Funeral Home and Cremation Services facility opened officially on January 1, 2007.   

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Three-quarters of a century after its inception, the Pinette funeral homes (by now including two locations: 87 Bartlett Street and the newer chapel at 1065 Lisbon Street) owner, Raoul Pinette, a past president of the National Funeral Directors Association, sold the business to James and Kevin Lynch, both of whom were 1982 graduates of the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science.

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n late 2005, the Bilodeau brothers – Richard and Normand – sold a parcel of land on the Alfred Plourde Parkway, behind the Lewiston Ramada hotel, to the Lynch brothers – Jim and Kevin. The Lynch brothers retained the services of the Gendron brothers – John and Todd, Gendron & Gendron/General Contractors – to build a state-of-theart new funeral facility that can provide clients with compassionate, custom services in ways previously unavailable in central Maine.

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“Generations of families had come to rely on our old facilities on Lisbon Street and on Bartlett Street,” Jim Lynch explained, “but those were built for a different era. People tended to conduct their entire lives in small neighborhoods.

They’d walk to work, to church, to shop, and for funerals. We’d known for some time that in order to better serve 21st century Lewiston families, we would need facilities that were more accessible, more comfortable and accommodating than our old homes.

After searching throughout adjacent areas of Lewiston, the perfect site, behind the Ramada on Alfred Plourde Parkway, became available in 2005.”

While the Lynch brothers knew generally how they wanted the new facility to function, they turned for design help to Dick Dudley, SEE DESIGN PAGE 7

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The Lynch brothers have operated the homes since 1986. During the next 10 years, the Lynch brothers developed a close working relationship with the Dillingham family, which had continued to operate the chapel founded by Civil War veteran Charles Dillingham. The Lynch brothers acquired the Dillingham & Son chapel in 1996.

The beautifully renovated Dillingham & Son chapel provides visitation rooms that can accommodate either funeral or memorial ceremonies, and founder Charles Dillingham’s greatgreat grandson, Jack, remains a member of the dedicated staff and preserves the family tradition.

The newest Pinette & Lynch Funeral Home and Cremation Services facility replaces the two venerable Pinette locations in Lewiston, but the Dillingham & Son chapel will continue to serve those for whom Auburn is a more convenient venue, at 62 Spring Street. 

We are proud to offer to the families we serve another new experience in selecting funeral or memorial merchandise in a more soothing and open atmosphere that is less overwhelming than the older, traditional way of open lid covers in a crowded selection room. All casket merchandise is modular with photos showing an open or closed casket that makes merchandise selection easier.

Memorial merchandise includes stationary; keepsakes; cremation urns; cremation jewelry; and cremation caskets. We also include, for added convenience, memorial monument displays for the selection of a monument for your cemetery lot, and floral selections for your loved one.

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ne of the most loving and caring things you can do for your family is reduce the emotional and financial burden during a difficult time for them, and spare them from the need to make painful decisions quickly and under stress. Many people now include funeral planning as an extension of will and estate planning by designating their own personal preferences in advance and often pre-funding expenses, as well.

With parking for 90 cars, garages for processional vehicles, and conveniently situated near outer Lisbon Street and connector routes that unify all of Lewiston – not to mention easy access to the Turnpike, as well – the Alfred Plourde Parkway site is the ideal location from which to deploy processions.

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The intent of the new chapel is to preserve the historical legacy of more than a century of caring, compassionate service to the bereaved of central Maine, but to do so in ways which provide access to the newest technology, ultimate convenience, complete comfort, along with the dignity and tradition that have epitomized the ways in which the Pinette, Dillingham and Lynch families have met the needs of Lewiston-Auburn area families for many decades.   

Funerals can often rank among the most expensive purchases some families will ever make, yet when a loved one dies, grieving family and friends are confronted with dozens of options to be considered, with decisions to be made under enormous time constraints.

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Often, the most difficult stage of the funeral process involves making arrangements after an unexpected death occurs, but the new chapel is designed to minimize the discomfort during that process, as well. The new Tribute Room presents a huge selection of caskets illustrated by tasteful, small sectional components, without open covers – much less overwhelming than traditional displays.

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• What kind of funeral should it be?

• Should you bury or cremate the body, or donate it to science?

• What are you legally required to buy?

• What other arrangements should you plan?

• And, as callous as it may sound, how much is it all going to cost?

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Another new offering today in funerals and memorialization is a big screen for Memorial Tribute Videos. More and more families are seeing the value of photos put to favorite music that shows how meaningful that life was to their family.

The chapel features full screen video capabilities that enable the family to highlight the happier times and the loved one’s accomplishments, and lots of families are learning just how meaningful and comforting an audio/ visual tribute can be.

The selection of caskets covers the full spectrum of pricing options as well, from minimal to the most ornate. A full array of cremation urns, models of burial vaults, along with memorial stationary, visitation registers, cemetery monuments and cremation keepsakes is also presented for discreet, tranquil review. Arrangements for flowers, or any sort of special commemoration, can be made right on site.

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he Pinette Funeral homes on Bartlett and Lisbon Streets that have been replaced by the million-dollar plus facility on Alfred Plourde Parkway were built for a simpler time, according to Pinette & Lynch family spokesman, James Lynch. “Napoleon Pinette, who established the first Pinette funeral home in Lewiston in 1912, was something of a visionary,” Lynch explained. “He recognized the need for space in which loved ones could gather comfortably to honor the deceased, and he was among the first to meet those needs with an independent funeral chapel. The first location, at 413 Lisbon Street, was easy to walk to, and was serviced by the trolleys.”

But, funeral needs have changed, and the new chapel provides a variety of choices. Accessibility to automobiles has become far more important. Families’ needs have evolved and people now need access to a wider variety of service options than ever before, in order to properly celebrate the life of their loved one.

The new Pinette & Lynch Funeral Home and Cremation Service can accommodate traditional visitation, cremation and more elaborate events of tribute and memorial processions to a church or cemetery.

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planning, and the new location only makes the whole process more convenient and less stressful than ever.   

The new Tribute Room display area illustrates the full range of options available, in terms of both services and products. It is a one-stop venue for addressing everything associated with providing a fitting tribute or memorial including the kind of service to be conducted; a variety of burial or cremation choices; an extensive array of caskets from the simplest pine to more ornate mahogany, walnut, cherry or oak, or metals; embalming options; vaults, burial urns, even cemetery site selection and monuments can all be addressed in one convenient location.

The counselors can help guide you through a variety of considerations that can customize the commemoration to suit the personality, the achievements, the friends and family of the deceased, and to do so with all the dignity, love and devotion such times demand.

Pre-planning may or may not include pre-funding: those are decisions that can be discussed during the consultation. Pre-funding assures that all funeral expenses will be paid, even if your estate is financially depleted and inflation has increased the costs of funerals.

Whatever decisions you make, you are encouraged to put your preferences in writing, give copies to family members and your attorney, and keep a copy in a handy place – not as part of a will which will usually not be addressed until after a funeral, and not in a safe deposit box that often cannot be accessed in an emergency. Careful planning and consultation can help anticipate such considerations and ease the logistical difficulties for the survivors as well as alleviating some of the inevitable emotional distress.

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For added convenience, we have memorial monument displays and floral selections to choose from for your loved one.

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The spaciousness and elegance is impressive upon entering the new facility, giving visitors a sense of warmth and openness.

At 11,000 square feet, and able to sit as many as 400 for a service, the new facility is among the largest in the state. But, the large chapel can easily be partitioned into smaller, more intimate rooms as well, enabling the facility to serve large or small gatherings with equal sensitivity and comfort.

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he 2006 holiday season was the 16th consecutive year of the initiative begun by Harrington, Maine’s Morrill Worcester to “renew our commitment to honor the men and women of the armed forces who have served, and those who are currently serving, our country. To each, and especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice, we owe unwavering support and a profound debt of gratitude for preserving the way of life we all enjoy here in the United States of America.”

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Pinette & Lynch Starting in 1992, Worcester Wreath Company began donating over 5,000 wreaths each holiday season to adorn the headstones of fallen veterans at Arlington National Cemetery. In 2006, the effort was broadened into the Wreaths Across America campaign to honor veterans in every state and national cemetery in America.

Back then, the company found itself with a surplus of wreaths near the end of the

season. With the help of Senator Olympia Snowe, arrangements were made to place those wreaths in one of the older sections of Arlington National Cemetery, a section receiving fewer visitors each year.

A number of other participants began their support for the project. James Prout, owner of Blue Bird Ranch, Inc. generously provided transportation all the way to Virginia. Volunteers from the local American Legion and VFW Posts gathered with members of the community to decorate each wreath with signature red, hand-tied bows. Members of the Maine State Society of Washington, D.C. and John Metzler, Jr., superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery, worked to organize the wreath-laying, including the incorporation of a special ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

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n behalf of generations of the Pinette, Dillingham and Lynch families, as well as the thousands of families it has been our great privilege to serve, it is our great honor to welcome you to the newest and finest facility in the Lewiston-Auburn area to meet memorial and funeral needs of those from throughout central Maine: Pinette and Lynch Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 305 Alfred Plourde Parkway, just behind the Lewiston Ramada hotel.

The beautiful and comforting 11,000 square foot, stateof-the-art facility replaces the aged Pinette locations at 87 Bartlett Street and 1065 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, and we are pleased that the Dillingham & Son chapel, at 62 Spring Street in Auburn, has been renovated and remains available to those for whom an Auburn location is more convenient.

Both the Pinette and Lynch and Dillingham and Son chapels are independent, family owned facilities, operated by generations of Lewiston and Auburn families beginning in the 19th century. The newest facility is designed to meet the ever-changing needs of the 21st century, but to do so in ways which are consistent with our more than six generations of compassion, professionalism, comfort and convenience.

We invite you to visit us at anytime to learn about the wide range of options available to the families of today, but especially we hope you are able to join us during our Open House event.

Sincerely,

James and Kevin Lynch

Jim Lynch

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Larry Ross, an elementary school teacher from Canaan, Maine and his Red Hat Entourage made up of school children from the Margaret Chase Smith School in Skowhegan, have also made the long trip down to Arlington for the annual event. Recognizable by their red winter hats, the class and chaperones raise money throughout the school year to help with the wreath-laying.

The Civil Air Patrol has over 65,000 volunteer members nationwide who donate their time and resources to train for disaster relief, emergency services, cadet programs and aerospace education for the public. Civil Air Patrol officers and cadets have been involved with Worcester Wreath for several years in decorating and laying wreaths in Arlington National Cemetery.

When Morrill and Karen Worcester decided to take this project nationwide, the Civil Air Patrol accepted the challenge. And the Blue Bird Ranch of Jonesboro, Maine has donated the truck transportation of wreaths from Harrington, Maine to Arlington National Cemetery since 1992.

Drivers and their families have also participated in the ceremony and wreathlaying.

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teered their time from the start in 1992. Congregating the Sunday morning before the annual trek, veterans and their families decorate the wreaths with hand tied bows. Veterans from both organizations also participate in the wreath-laying ceremonies in Maine and in Washington D.C. Annin & Company is the oldest and largest manufacturer of flags in the United

States. With the introduction of the Wreaths Across America campaign, Annin & Company will be donating both American and service specific flags for each ceremony wreath that will be used at the over 230 state and national cemeteries and monuments across the country.

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Wreaths Across America by donating the corrugated storage boxes that are used to ship the wreaths from their birthplace at Worcester Wreath in Harrington, Maine to their eventual homes adorning the grave markers of our nation’s fallen heroes.

United Parcel Service joined the Wreaths Across America campaign in 2006 by donating all shipping expenses to each of the over

230 state and national cemeteries and monuments across the country.

Pinette & Lynch Funeral Home and Cremation Services is proud to support the efforts of the Worcester family to honor our nation’s veterans, and they encourage others to become involved, as well.

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