<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280634351498487726</id><updated>2011-07-07T20:55:39.505-07:00</updated><category term='funeral plans'/><category term='how to plan a funeral'/><category term='funeral planning'/><category term='first steps to planning funeral'/><category term='plan funerals'/><title type='text'>Planning a Funeral</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://plan-a-funeral.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/280634351498487726/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://plan-a-funeral.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Armanda Ewing</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12480201448665783307</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280634351498487726.post-7757958382525697529</id><published>2009-07-14T00:52:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-14T00:52:38.926-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='plan funerals'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='funeral planning'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='first steps to planning funeral'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='how to plan a funeral'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='funeral plans'/><title type='text'>First Steps Funeral Planning</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.funeralprogram-site.com"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.funeralprogram-site.com/images/template065.jpg" border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.funeralprogram-site.com"&gt;Funeral Program&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Site is a good resource for funeral program layout and purchasing beautiful &lt;a href="http://www.creativemediaweb.com/blog/funeral-programs/funeral-program"&gt;funeral programs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Soon after the death of a loved one, funeral planning must start.  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