Orders for Blessing Hospice Butterfly Moments due Friday, Aug. 1

QUINCY — Blessing Hospice brings back Butterfly Moments at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 17, at the Moorman Park large shelter house in Quincy. Butterfly Moments is open to all area residents who wish to honor the memory of a deceased loved one by purchasing and releasing a butterfly. The person being honored does not have to have received hospice care.

The butterfly symbolizes the transition between life and death. The caterpillar forms its cocoon and prepares to leave the life it knows, becoming a lovely butterfly and beginning a new life.

Cost is $10 per butterfly. Orders must be placed by Aug. 1 at blessinghealth.org/butterflymoments and completing the online form.

The event will begin with distribution of purchased butterflies. A list of the names of those being honored, and release of the butterflies in unison, will take place at 2 p.m. If the individual reserving the butterfly cannot attend, the butterfly will be released by a member of the Blessing Hospice staff.

Butterfly Moments will be held rain or shine. In the event of rain, those reserving butterflies will come to Moorman Park and pick up their butterfly to release on their own time when the weather clears.

The Moorman Park large shelter house is off of North 36th St. with an additional entrance from Columbus Road between 36th and 48th Streets.

For additional questions about Butterfly Moments, call Blessing Hospice at 217-440-0816.