Sympathy flowers in North Richland Hills

The first thing to understand about sympathy in North Richland Hills is that the city is a place people live rather than a place they are buried. There is no large chapel-and-cemetery complex inside the city limits, so a Mid-Cities funeral almost always travels: southwest to Mount Olivet Cemetery and Funeral Home at 2301 N. Sylvania Ave. in Fort Worth 76111, one of Tarrant County's oldest and largest burial grounds; west to Greenwood Memorial Park and Funeral Home at 3100 White Settlement Rd. in 76107; east to Bluebonnet Hills Funeral Home and Memorial Park on Colleyville Boulevard, the SH-26 continuation of the same Boulevard 26 that runs through North Richland Hills; to the Lucas Funeral Home chapels in Hurst and Keller, which handle a large share of Northeast Tarrant services; to Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel and Cemetery on East Lancaster Avenue; to Thompson's Harveson and Cole and Brown Owens and Brumley on the near south side of Fort Worth; and to Moore Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens in Arlington. Two of our ten studios sit almost on top of those grounds: Mountolivet Flower Shop is listed at 2301 N. Sylvania Ave. — the Mount Olivet gate address itself — and Greenwood Florist at 3344 White Settlement Rd. is a few blocks east of Greenwood's entrance on the same street.

The congregations and institutions around the service matter as much as the address. St. John the Apostle Catholic Church on Glenview Drive and The Hills Church on Northeast Loop 820 are two of the largest congregations inside North Richland Hills, and Mid-Cities services frequently begin at a church and finish at a cemetery ten or fifteen miles away, which means two deliveries with two different timings rather than one. Hospice and palliative deliveries run to Medical City North Hills at 4401 Booth Calloway Road, the city's own hospital, and to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Hurst-Euless-Bedford on Hospital Parkway in Bedford, with the Fort Worth medical district — Texas Health Harris Methodist Fort Worth on Pennsylvania Avenue, Baylor Scott and White All Saints, Medical City Fort Worth, John Peter Smith Hospital and Cook Children's Medical Center — inside the radius as well. Veterans' committals often leave Tarrant County entirely for the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery on Mountain Creek Parkway, which sits outside the same-day radius and has to be handled as a scheduled order on the cemetery's own timetable, not as a rush.