Memorial Services

Service Overview

Our directors are personally involved with each pre-arrangement. When allowing us to discuss pre-planning, you will be speaking with professional people who provide funeral services tailored to your specific needs. Preplanning is a thoughtful decision that helps reduce the stress of indecision and uncertainty when a death occurs. You have the option of having the remains interred (earth burial), or it may be entombed in a crypt inside a mausoleum (above ground burial). Family or religious traditions are often a factor for choosing burial

Traditionally, a burial service involves a visitation, followed by a funeral service in a church, or other place of worship.

Nothing could be further from the truth. With cremation,

  1.  What is opening and closing and why is it so expensive?
  2.  Can we dig our own grave to avoid the charge for opening and closing?
  3.  What happens when a cemetery runs out of land?

Opening and closing fees can include up to and beyond 50 separate services provided by the cemetery. Typically, the opening and closing fee include administration and permanent record keeping; opening and closing the grave; installation and removal of the lowering device; placement and removal of artificial grass dressing and coco-matting at the grave site, leveling, tamping, re-grading and sodding the grave site and leveling and re-sodding the grave if the earth settles.

A lawn cemetery is where each grave is marked with a small commemorative plaque that is placed horizontally at the head of the grave at ground-level.

Lawn Cemetery

Natural burials are motivated by the desire to be environmentally conscience, although natural burials can be performed at any type of cemetery,

Natural Cemeteries

Columbarium walls are generally reserved for cremated remains. While cremated remains can be kept at home by families or scattered somewhere significant

Columbarium

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You have the option of having the remains interred (earth burial), or it may be entombed in a crypt inside a mausoleum (above ground burial). Family or religious traditions are often a factor for choosing burial.

The actual opening and closing of the grave is just one component of the opening and closing fee. Due to safety issues which arise around the use of machinery on cemetery property and the protection

The actual opening and closing of the grave is just one component of the opening and closing fee. Due to safety issues which arise around the use of machinery on cemetery property and the protection

The actual opening and closing of the grave is just one component of the opening and closing fee. Due to safety issues which arise around the use of machinery on cemetery property and the protection

The actual opening and closing of the grave is just one component of the opening and closing fee. Due to safety issues which arise around the use of machinery on cemetery property and the protection

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