Dear Carla, The headstone looks exactly as we hoped. Thank you and all who worked on the order for a job well done. I'm sure my mother would be very pleased. ~Sincerely, Kay

To all of you, Thanks for all you have done for me. So many kindnesses in this trying time. I really appreciate all you have done since our service. ~Mildred

Mr. Blackwell, I can not put into words the gratitude I feel for a job well done. I have no feeling of we should have done this or that. Everything fell together just perfect. I want to Thank You and your staff from the bottom of my heart. ~Thank You, Earline

Dear Edward & Carla, Thank you so much for all your kindness and helpfulness during Mother's funeral, as well as before and after. You went above and beyond to make sure everything was done well! ~Sincerely Mel

Mr. Blackwell, My family and I wish to thank you for the professional and caring support you provided us at he time of our mother's death. With pleasure we will recommend your services to friends and family. ~Renan

Our family truly appreciates the guidance and help during our recent loss. Your assistance and professional counsel produced a warm feeling and closure to a wonderful life. ~Helen

Ed & Carla, Words are not enough to say for the great way you took such great care of my mom and the way you handled all the arrangements and for working with my family. ~Karen

Ed and Carla, My last thank you is to you both - you were who I depended on to the end. It was a big funeral and I know you worked hard for a week or more but want you to know you did a 100%. Job well done and I'm hearing everyone else thought so too. ~Billie

Edward and Carla, Thank you so much for the thoughtful and thorough way which you helped us through the passing of Bill's mom. You truly went "the extra mile" and we all really appreciated it. ~Bill & Barbee

Mr. and Mrs. Blackwell, On behalf of my family and the entire family of the late Catherine who passed away Sunday, 10-24-2010. I would like to convey our appreciation for the quality of services you provided for us. Everyone was most appreciative of what you did. The extra mile in which you did, the register book was something to speaking highly of, you personal attention also was greatly appreciated...I wish also to convey my deep appreciation to wonderful caring secretary, she was really wonderful and helpful when the family arrived showing how caring and compassion she was.. She is to be commended... ~Bobby

I cannot begin to express my gratitude for your efficiency, kindness and wisdom in helping me with Mom and Dad's services. My son and husband were so impressed with both of you. The B&B was great for the kids and my daughter in law was very impressed, she said she could just move right in. Dad's service was wonderful despite the weather. The Honor Guard was perfect, very touching. ~Thank you so very much, Danette and family

I apologize for the delay in my sending my "thank you" to you, your husband and staff for the lovely memorial and service for my Dad. I believe he would have been very proud. It certainly was very lovely. You and your husband made a difficult time much less stressful than it could have been. Again, thank you! ~Best, Susan

Thank You,

Our daddy passed away on January 12, 2011. My sister Peggy and I sat in the small waiting room at Integris Blackwell Regional on that evening, looking at each other. We both knew what the other was thinking and neither of us knew where to start. All it took was one phone call and Mrs. Edward Blackwell from Tonkawa Funeral Home came to the hospital. That was when the confusion stopped. He provided us with a packet which contained numerous items, to include an information sheet, that we were to fill out, detailing Daddy's life, family hobbies and so much information that we would not have ever thought of. This information was used to write his obituary and was also used for his service.

We visited the Tonkawa Funeral Home on the following morning with our younger sister Connie to make necessary decisions. Ed and Carla made it so very easy for us to make the arrangements for the final details of our Daddy's service. They set up everything to include all fees to the people in the service, arrangements with the First Methodist Church, news paper notices, insurance details, Social Security details, and so much more. We provided them with pictures and with those they put together a very nice video with music of our choice. Ed and Carla are incredible to work with and were so relieved at the ease of it all.

They were also very prompt with their preparations, having everything ready for viewing that same day. The rooms in the funeral home are decorated very nicely, the lighting is soft and very calming and their displays for the flowers and plants that arrived were done very professionally. We were told that we could bring anything we wanted to display in the room with Dad.

The service was held and Ed delivered to us our "books". The books are just beautiful and contained so much information about Daddy, his obituary, his picture, his service arrangements and the people that helped, the guests and friends at the visitation and the service, very nice pictures of the service and pictures of the flowers and plants that came to the funeral home and to the church. Such detail goes into these books so that nothing is missed. We were provided everything for the final details, ie., thank you cards for friends and family, thank you cards for the pallbearers and thank you cards for the minister and the people who provided music and copy of the music and video at the service.

We felt a public acknowledgement of the work and expertise shown by Ed and Carla Blackwell was absolutely necessary and something that we really wanted to share. This is also a most heartfelt thank you to both of them for their professional work and for the compassion shown to our family.

Thank you Ed and Carla Blackwell and the Tonkawa Funeral Home. ~Anita, Peggy and Connie