Why Memorialize?

PERMANENT MEMORIALIZATION

A Lasting Legacy.

Permanent memorialization provides a dedicated place for families and friends to celebrate life and honor their loved ones. While traditionally associated with burials, modern cemeteries offer diverse options for both burial and cremation, ensuring that every individual's legacy can be remembered in a meaningful way.

The Value of Permanent Memorialization

A Lasting Space for Remembrance and Healing

Emotional Significance

A permanent resting place allows individuals to establish a physical location where they can come to feel close to their loved one. Visiting a loved one's grave or memorial can offer solace during anniversaries, holidays, and other significant dates, helping individuals process their grief and continue their relationship with the deceased through memories and shared moments.

Community Connection

Cemeteries often serve as communal spaces where people can come together to honor and remember the deceased. They host public memorials, remembrance events, and other ceremonies that foster community bonds and collective mourning. This communal aspect of permanent memorialization helps individuals feel supported by others who share their loss and grief, reinforcing the idea that no one has to mourn alone.

Enduring Legacy

Choosing permanent memorialization means creating a lasting legacy for the deceased. It is a declaration that they have left an indelible mark on the lives of others and that their memory will continue to be honored for generations. This enduring legacy is a comforting assurance to loved ones that the deceased's impact and spirit will persist through time.

Historical Importance

From a historical perspective, cemeteries are valuable cultural repositories that hold the stories of individuals, families, and communities. Each marker and monument is a record of a person's existence, contributing to the collective memory of a community and linking the past to the present. These spaces ensure that future generations can trace their heritage, learn about their ancestors, and understand their family’s history within a larger societal context.

Cremation & Burial Options

Cremation Options

Discover the versatility of our cremation memorialization options. Whether you prefer a niche in a beautifully designed columbarium, a personalized memorial bench, or a dedicated space in a scattering garden, our cremation solutions honor the uniqueness of your loved one while providing a serene location for visits and reflection.

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Burial Options

Explore our range of options from traditional ground burial plots to family estates and private mausoleums. We offer a variety of choices to ensure a respectful and dignified resting place. Each option provides a timeless sanctuary for reflection and remembrance.

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FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Choosing a permanent resting place is a meaningful decision that honors a life and supports healing. Below are some frequently asked questions to help you understand the options and significance of memorialization in a cemetery, whether for burial or cremation.

: No, cemeteries are for both traditional burials and cremations. We offer a range of cremation memorialization options, including urn burials in plots, placement in a columbarium niche, or incorporation into special memorial structures like benches or boulders. These options allow for a dignified and permanent place to honor your loved one.
: Absolutely. You can inter an urn in a cemetery regardless of how much time has passed since the cremation. Choosing a permanent resting place, even years later, provides a focal point for commemoration and can help bring closure to families seeking a dedicated space to reflect and remember.
: Permanent memorialization provides a physical location where future generations can come to remember and honor their ancestors. This lasting tribute creates a legacy, connecting past, present, and future generations, and offers a place for ongoing reflection and healing.
: Choosing a cemetery for memorialization ensures that your loved one's resting place is maintained in a dignified and respectful manner. Cemeteries provide a tranquil environment that is specifically designed for reflection and remembrance, supported by perpetual care that ensures the site remains beautiful and serene indefinitely.
: Yes, cremation memorializations can be personalized just as much as traditional burials. You can choose from various markers, plaques, or monuments to mark the resting place. Additionally, many cemeteries offer the option to customize the surrounding area or add personal touches that reflect the unique life of your loved one.
: Even if you choose cremation, having a cemetery plot provides a permanent place of remembrance for your loved ones. While scattering ashes can be a meaningful gesture, it is a final act that does not allow for a physical location to visit. Keeping ashes at home may seem like a good idea initially, but over time, these can be inadvertently misplaced, stored away, or even discarded by future generations. Remember that you can divide the cremated remains where a portion is taken home and some are scattered someplace meaningful, but most families still place a portion in a cemetery. Permanent placement in a cemetery ensures that there is a lasting, dignified resting place where family and friends can come to reflect and remember.
: Purchasing your memorial through the cemetery ensures that it meets the specific requirements and standards of the cemetery. It also simplifies the process, as the cemetery staff can handle all aspects of the memorial, from design and inscription to installation, ensuring consistency and quality. Additionally, this helps in maintaining the aesthetic harmony of the memorial park. Also, the cemetery will always be there and maintained, but monument companies open and close frequently. So, if there is ever a problem with your memorial in the future like poor bronze materials or iron in the granite, the monument company may not be in business to replace it. The cemetery always stands behind its products and will be there for you to help with any problems that might arise.
: Cemeteries are often maintained through a concept known as 'perpetual care,' which involves depositing a percentage of property sales into a trust fund per state law. The income from this perpetual care trust is used specifically for the ongoing maintenance and care of the cemetery and ensure that the cemetery remains a well-kept sanctuary forever. This financial planning safeguards the beauty and tranquility of the space, ensuring that it will be maintained for generations to come. If you would like to review the amounts in our perpetual care trust funds, you are welcome to request them. We want you to trust that the cemetery will be well maintained when there is no more property left to sell.