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Simple Services with Cremation choose to have a funeral service at the
Many families choose to simplify services to funeral home or a mass at your church. The
accommodate family members who need to cremains can be returned to the family, or
travel from out of the area, or even to honor buried in the earth or entombed in a niche
the wishes of the deceased who asked for at a graveside service.
simple, but personal and intimate service.
We can provide your family with morning Immediate Cremation
visitation, with open or closed casket* and Immediate cremation** foregoes any
a service at the funeral home or mass at traditional funeral visitation, and ceremony.
your church, followed by cremation. The With immediate cremation, the deceased
cremains are returned to the family to be is only taken to the funeral home for a
placed in an urn and buried in the earth or brief period long enough to secure death
entombed in a niche. certificates and permits for the cremation.
The deceased is placed in the minimum
Memorial Visitation following Cremation container required by the crematory and is
Like a traditional funeral service, memorial cremated with no visitation, or service. The
visitation gives family and friends with a cremains are returned to the family to be
time and place to gather to remember placed in an urn and buried in the earth or
and celebrate their loved one. Memorial entombed in a niche.
visitation differs from a traditional service
in that there is no casket or body present, * Except in certain special cases, embalming
as a cremation will have occurred before is not required by law. Embalming may be
visitation. A personalized urn often stands necessary, however, if you select certain
in place of a casket. Our typical visitation funeral arrangements, such as a funeral
hours are 2 – 4 & 7 – 9 pm, though we are with a viewing or open casket. If you do
able to accommodate other times as you not want embalming, you usually have the
may need. Families can elect to hold an right to choose an arrangement such as a
afternoon or evening prayer or fraternal direct cremation or immediate burial that
service. Following visitation some families does not require you to pay for it.
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