- 1). Gather personal information about the deceased person. Find her date and place of birth, parents' names, siblings, education, career, marital status and children's names. Optional information includes military history, hobbies, awards, special recognitions and travels. If you make a funeral service bulletin for someone you did not know, contact a family member or representative of the deceased to obtain the biographical information.
- 2). Write an obituary based on the biographical information. The length of the obituary depends on how much you plan to write about the person's life.
- 3). Develop an order of service for the funeral. The order of service is usually planned with a family member, a close friend or the clergy of the deceased individual. The service may feature the deceased's favorite songs or poems, remarks from family or friends, and/or a video or slide show. A religious funeral service often includes a hymn, Scripture reading or prayer. The service concludes with a eulogy.
- 4). Choose a photograph of the deceased person for the front cover of the bulletin.
- 5). Lay out the bulletin using word-processing software and/or a page layout application on a computer. Templates are available online. A traditional funeral service bulletin contains four pages. Place the deceased's photograph on the bulletin's front cover; place her full name in the first line underneath the photograph. List her date of birth through her date of death on the second line. Write the funeral service location's name and address closer to the bottom of the cover. Listing the funeral's date and time is optional.
Place the obituary and order of service inside the bulletin. The back cover usually includes pallbearers' names, acknowledgments from the deceased individual's family and the name of the funeral home handling the arrangements. - 6). Print the bulletin. A funeral service bulletin is usually printed on 8 1/2-by-11-inch paper, but you may use a different size of paper sizes. Paper is available in various thicknesses, or weights, at printing stores and office supply stores. Depending on how many bulletins you need, you may want to have a printing store print them.
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