Burial Services

Traditionally, a burial service involves a visitation, followed by a funeral service in a church, or other places of worship.  The casket is typically present at both these events, and it is your decision on whether to have the casket open or not.  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.  Decisions need to be made on whether the body needs to be embalmed, what kind of casket to use, what cemetery to use and what to put on the gravestone.

Burying a loved one is always an emotional experience. The nature of the service itself can be modified in accordance with the deceased’s wishes, or with the general preferences of the family.

We do not take a one-size-fits-all approach to our burial services, but rather we create the kind of mood that families request—while ensuring that, regardless of the particulars, each burial service is intimate, affirming, and beautiful.

SOME SPECIFIC BURIAL OPTIONS INCLUDE

Graveside funeral services, which can include involvement from a religious leader, masonic rites, military ritual, or readings from family members.
Committal services, in which loved ones gather to commit a loved one to the Earth—a symbolic gesture of healing.

Immediate burials, for families who have a sudden and unexpected need to bury a loved one.

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 of other gravesites, the actual opening and closing of the grave is conducted by cemetery grounds personnel only.