When you decide on a burial service it usually involves a visitation, followed by a funeral service in a church, memorial chapel, or other place of worship. It can also include a shorter graveside service at the cemetery where the casket is laid to rest. You can even decide on burial followed by a reception in a more relaxed setting, even in your family home.

The casket is typically present in traditional services; however it is up you if you want to have it present, and if you do, you can decide whether you would like to have the casket open or closed throughout visitation and memorial services.

After the service, you have the option to have the casket interred in one of the many cemeteries in our area.

If you choose cremation for your loved one, there are endless possibilities on how you can honor your loved one's life with a visitation and funeral or memorial service to celebrate the life of this individual who was so important in your life. 

We will work with you to choose how you want to celebrate your loved one's life and how you want to distribute the cremains. 

You may want to spread the cremains as part of your service, inter the urn at a local cemetery or columbarium niche, or retain the urn as a keepsake. In addition, you may also choose to have personalized urns or other types of jewelry created from the cremains that can be given to members of the family as mementos.

A funeral service is a special time for family and friends to comfort one another, begin to find healing and celebrate a life well lived. Whether you choose burial or cremation, you can hold a funeral service to honor your loved one. We are happy to provide a traditional funeral or something completely unique. Many cultures and religions have special funeral traditions and we will do our best to accommodate your requests. This is a moment for you and your family and we are honored to help you in any way that we can.

Just like a funeral service, a memorial service is a time to remember your loved one. This can be held shortly after your loved one's death or weeks later, with or without an urn present. What’s important is that it creates a time and a place for family and friends to gather together and support one another, share memories, and pay their respects. The memorial service can be held at our funeral home, at your home, or another location that you might choose. 

Including visitation hours prior to the funeral can be just as important for those who are grieving to meet and console each other in a more informal setting than at the funeral. Visitation can be held immediately before the service, or up to one or two days before the day of the service. Visitation hours can be limited to close friends and family, open to the public, or a combination of private and public hours.

As part of the visitation, we can arrange a formal or informal ceremony based on your religious affiliation or specific traditions, or none at all. It's totally up to you. Our goal is to honor your loved one and helping friends and family beyond their grief into acceptance and healing.