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Traditional Funeral Service a clergy member or funeral director deliver
Our traditional funeral service offers your prayers before a burial or entombment.
family and friends standard visitation hours But it is also common that burial may occur
of 2 – 4 & 7 – 9 pm, though we are able with only immediate family, and a memorial
to accommodate other times as you may service to occur at a later date. Occasionally,
need. Families are offered open or closed families decide only to hold graveside
casket* (see pgxx) visitations, with the services with prayers and a committal. In
option of an afternoon or evening prayer or general, graveside services are fairly brief.
fraternal service. Following one or two days We often lay flowers or shovel earth as a
of visitation a funeral service, or a mass is final gesture of thanks and goodwill to our
held in the funeral home or church followed departed.
by a committal service and burial or
entombment in a cemetery, or mausoleum Immediate Burial
crypt. Immediate burials forego any traditional
funeral visitation, and ceremony. With
Funeral Service at your Place of Worship immediate burial, the deceased is only
Some local congregations afford taken to the funeral home for a brief period
parishioners or congregants the privilege long enough to secure death certificates
of visitation or calling hours in their place and permits for the burial or entombment.
of worship. Similar to our traditional funeral The deceased is placed in the minimum
service options, we can also help facilitate casket required by the cemetery and is
calling hours with a celebration of life in interred with no visitation, or service.
your church. Hours of 2 – 4 & 7 – 9 are Typically, this option also eliminates the
suggested. Families are offered open or need for embalming*.
closed casket* visitations, with the option
of an afternoon or evening prayer or * Except in certain special cases, embalming
fraternal service. Following one or two days is not required by law. Embalming may be
of visitation a funeral service, or a mass is necessary, however, if you select certain
held followed by a committal service and funeral arrangements, such as a funeral
burial or entombment in a cemetery, or with a viewing or open casket. If you do
mausoleum crypt. not want embalming, you usually have the
right to choose an arrangement such as a
direct cremation or immediate burial that
Simple Services
Many families choose to simplify services to does not require you to pay for it.
accommodate family members who need to
travel from out of the area, or even to honor Burial FAQs
the wishes of the deceased who asked for
simple, but personal and intimate service.
We can provide your family with morning What is opening and closing of a grave
visitation, with open or closed casket* and a niche or crypt and why is it so expensive?
service at the funeral home or mass at your Typically, the opening and closing fee
church, followed by a committal service includes administration and permanent
and burial or entombment in a cemetery, or record keeping (determining ownership,
mausoleum crypt. obtaining permission and the completion
of other documentation which may be
Graveside Services required, entering the interment particulars
A graveside service can follow a traditional in the interment register, maintaining
funeral, can precede a memorial service, or all legal files); opening and closing the
can be a standalone event. Often, families grave (locating the grave and laying out
who chose traditional funerals elect to have the boundaries, excavating and filling the
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