Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Light

Name: Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Light
Start: 2025-12-14T18:45:00-05:00
Location: Bauer Park 214 Payne Ave North Tonawanda NY 14120

Schedule

Sun, 14 Dec, 2025 at 06:45 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Bauer Park 214 Payne Ave North Tonawanda NY 14120 | North Tonawanda, NY

The Compassionate Friends 25th annual Worldwide Candle lighting unites family and friends around the globe in lighting candles for one hour to honor the memories of the sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and grandchildren who left too soon.
Music, readings, and poems. Candle lighting service to include the reading of the children’s names.
THIS IS AN OUTDOOR EVENT; PLEASE DRESS ACCORDINGLY. Sponsored by Wattengel Funeral Home

Now believed to be the largest mass candle lighting on the globe, the 28th annual Worldwide Candle Lighting, a gift to the bereavement community from The Compassionate Friends, creates a virtual 24-hour wave of light as it moves from time zone to time zone. TCF’s WCL started in the United States in 1997 as a small internet observance, but has since swelled in numbers as word has spread throughout the world of the remembrance. Hundreds of formal candle lighting events are held and thousands of informal candle lightings are conducted in homes as families gather in quiet remembrance of children who have died, but will never be forgotten