Ideas for remembering someone's life when funerals limited

[bathsh3ba]

My sister has a severe learning disability and lives in a small care home with three 'housemates', all with varying degrees of learning disability. It is a very special place, the staff are wonderful and we have always felt she has a second family there. All the families of the housemates are close as they have lived together for 11 years now.

Very sadly and unexpectedly one of my sister's housemates died two days ago. Cause unknown and inquest pending but she had been vaccinated 4 weeks earlier and they have regular tests for Covid and no indication it was Covid related. She was only 30, she was autistic, epileptic and had a learning disability but she seemed healthy and she was certainly happy.

Under current funeral rules we obviously can't go to her funeral, only family. I wondered if anyone had any ideas of ways we could remember her and show her family we care, within the rules of course. Thank you.

What about planting or buying some Forget Me Not seeds? Easy to grow in small pots? If she had a favourite colour maybe add a ribbon of that colour? You could do some for your sister and other residents.
Or a donation to charity in her memory? Did she like animals? Sponsor a guide dog puppy?

Thank you, she was scared of dogs and cats but she loved to ride with RDA so maybe we could so something with the local RDA. She also loved all kinds of floral scents/aromatherapy so maybe we could plant some scented flowers in the garden.

Charity donation in her name would be a lovely thing to do.

Do you have photos of her? Particularly ones they might not have seen.

We lost a family friend with LD several years ago. On the 5th anniversary his parents posted online saying “It’s the anniversary of his death, please share a memory of him with us.” Loads of people did and some shared photos.

Could you do similar? Make a book of memories/photos? Perhaps one for the family, one for the home.