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The COVID-19 pandemic and current health orders are leaving an often-ignored industry to grieve: the funeral industry.
Manitoba Funeral Service Association s President Kevin Sweryd says while funeral homes are doing their best to follow the health orders, it is difficult to help a family celebrate a lost family member when they are not all about to be in the same room. Families are heartbroken. I personally had the eleventh granddaughter call me one day saying is it really true I can t come to my grandma s funeral? Sweryd says.
Sweryd is the President and Funeral Director of Bardal Funeral Home. (Kevin Sweryd/Facebook)