Which Lubbock funeral homes do you deliver to?
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All of the city's chapels. Sanders Funeral Home at 1420 Main Street downtown, Resthaven Funeral Home at 5740 West 19th Street with its memorial park on the same grounds, Combest Family Funeral Homes, Calvillo Funeral Home in north Lubbock, and Ossie Curry Funeral Home in East Lubbock are the regular destinations. Outside the city, the chapels in Slaton, Idalou, Post, Tahoka, Wolfforth, Shallowater, Levelland, Brownfield, Littlefield, Floydada and Plainview are all inside the 60-mile radius this page searches. Give the funeral home's name, the name of the deceased as the chapel has it, and the service time, since several services can share a building on a busy Saturday.
Will a standing spray stay upright at a Lubbock graveside?
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Often it will not, and that is a real local answer rather than a caution. The plains around Lubbock have nothing to break the wind, and a spring burial at the City of Lubbock Cemetery on East 31st Street, at Resthaven Memorial Park on West 19th, at Peaceful Gardens south of town, or at any country cemetery out toward Idalou or Slaton can run with sustained wind in the thirties. Tall easel work leans and then falls. Ask for a low weighted design — a compact basket, a casket-top piece, dense greenery and short stems — and tell the shop the delivery is graveside rather than chapel so the shape is built for it.
What can I send within the live Lubbock price band?
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The listed arrangements in this selection start at $84.50. Delivery charges, taxes and optional extras are confirmed for the selected florist and recipient before payment.
Should I send flowers to the church or to the family's home?
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In Lubbock it depends on the congregation, and the difference is not subtle. At the large Churches of Christ — Broadway Church of Christ on Broadway, Sunset Church of Christ, and the many smaller congregations across the city and the farm towns — memorial notices often direct gifts to a scholarship or mission fund, and a plant or an arrangement sent to the family's house lands better than a large piece at the building. At Christ the King Cathedral on 54th Street, Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Elizabeth's near Texas Tech, flowers at the vigil the evening before the funeral Mass are expected and customary. When the obituary names a preference, follow it.
I am out of state and the family is in Lubbock. What do you need from me?
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This is the most common sympathy order we take here, because Lubbock draws families from across the South Plains and eastern New Mexico and scatters its graduates everywhere else. Four things make it work: the funeral home or cemetery name, the service date and time, the name of the deceased spelled the way the chapel has it, and a delivery address if the flowers are going to a house instead. A card message is included and is written out by hand at the shop. If you are unsure whether the family is in town — many are driving in from Plainview, Levelland or Post — send to the chapel rather than to an address nobody is at.
Can you deliver to a hospital or hospice before someone passes?
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Yes, with limits worth knowing. UMC on Indiana Avenue and Covenant on 19th Street both take deliveries at a patient's room through the main desk, but intensive care and the burn unit generally do not allow flowers at all, and a palliative floor may have its own rule. Hospice of Lubbock and the residential hospice settings around the city are more permissive and often welcome something small and unscented. Call the unit before ordering, keep the piece compact enough for a crowded windowsill, and skip heavy fragrance, which is unkind in a room where a family is spending long hours.
What lasts best for a family in Lubbock's dry climate?
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A green plant, by a wide margin. Lubbock sits at roughly 3,200 feet with single-digit afternoon humidity for much of the year, and cut flowers in a home here drink faster and fade sooner than they would on the coast. A peace lily or a similar foliage plant in a basket will still be in the family's kitchen months after the service, which is often exactly the point of the gesture. If you do send cut flowers to a house, a low dense arrangement holds up better than a tall loose one, and a note asking the family to top up the water is a kindness rather than an instruction.