Every summer, Brian Kluth's extended family of 80 people would gather for a family reunion. But family reunions felt very different when Brian's mother and her three sisters all died within two years of each other. At the next reunion, Brian realized that every question that wasn't asked about the sister's growing up years could no longer be answered because they were all gone.
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And finally, when Brian's father was dying a number of years ago he wrote all the family's financial information on a napkin and gave it to his wife. One of the things he wrote on the napkin was that he had a special employee insurance policy for $125,000. When his father died, the company sent his mother a check for $25,000 and told her she was paid in full. But she took out her napkin with the financial information and phoned them to say she should have received $125,000. They told her to send the $25,000 check back and they would reissue a check for $125,000!
Kluth says, "Because of these experiences, I was given a God-given desire to create a manual so that families would not be shortchanged out of the memories, monies, or information that they neeeded."
After two years of extensive research and writing, Brian just released the Because I Love You FAMILY ORGANIZER. In this 50-page manual he put a list of over 100 questions people could ask aging relatives when they gather for family renunions and get togethers. He included special pages that would give a spouse or family members lists of where important documents were located, household information, and financial accounts. He provided helpful pages so people could let their loved ones know their wishes for their funeral, who should receive family heirlooms and special possessions, and who to notify about their death. He even included pages that help families organize their schedules, grocery shop, and know what to pack for a big trip.
In addition to Kluth selling the manual online at www.MyFamilyOrganizer.org, he is also making the FAMILY ORGANIZER available for purchase to hospitals, doctor's offices, financial professionals, attorneys, banks, churches, and non-profts on a discounted basis so they can give copies to their patients, clients, customers, donors, and members.
"My goal was to compile and create one of the most comprehensive guides of helpful family forms anywhere on the planet!" says Kluth. Those who have seen the FAMILY ORGANIZER agree he accomplished his goal and that their family will benefit from the work he has done. The Because I Love You FAMILY ORGANIZERis available in a paper of Microsoft Word version at www.MyFamilyOrganizer.org.
