Cremation Services
Cremation Services with Care and Compassion
If your family has chosen cremation, we offer affordable services that help celebrate the life of your loved one while giving you several options for a public gathering and a final resting place.
It is most important for all of us to realize that funerals are for the living...for those who are affected by the loss of one we love.
During a funeral service, family and friends gather with each other to share their loss and to provide much needed emotional support for each other. By participating in the funeral service, those who grieve will face the reality of death and take the first step toward a healthy emotional adjustment.
Funerals can be conducted in many different ways. The service may be elaborate or simple, but should always reflect the life of the deceased and hold special meaning for the family and friends.
Photographs, a special song, even a favorite tie or golf clubs, can be incorporated into the funeral service to make it more meaningful.
Whether you choose a traditional interment, cremation or memorial service, just tell us what it is that made your loved one so special and we'll give you ideas for personalizing that service.
Traditional Funeral Service followed by Cremation
Many families find meaning and beauty in a traditional funeral service. With a traditional service combined with cremation, you can still choose to have a final viewing, visitation or wake, and a funeral service. However, instead of in-ground burial, the funeral will be followed by cremation. Depending on your wishes, the cremated remains may be either returned to your family for storage in an urn, scattered, or interred in a columbarium. This option will include fees for the funeral services as well as the fees associated with the cremation itself.
Memorial Service
The funeral service can be held in a church or any other venue the family chooses. We work with our families to design a service that honors their loved one with stories, music, or scripture. We also have life celebrants who lead services where clergy may not be chosen. Our celebrants are trained in creating experiences that help start the healing process.
Graveside Service
A graveside or committal service is typically held immediately following the funeral service, but it can also be a small, intimate gathering of those closest to you.
Permanent Memorialization
Keeping an Urn at Home
This is a common choice. Families can select the perfect urn for their loved one.
Placing the Urn in a Columbarium (aka, a "niche")
Many families find comfort in having a final resting place that they can visit.
Burying the Urn
Similar to a casket, an in-ground burial of the urn allows for a final resting place.
Scatter the ashes
Some families find comfort in scattering the cremated remains at a place that was special to their loved one.
