Personalized Cremation Services in Lebanon County, PA
If your family has chosen cremation in Lebanon County, you can still have a burial and a funeral service. Or, you don't have to have a service at all.
Cremation comes with many options, from affordable direct cremation with no service to a full memorial service with a burial. It can even include a viewing of your loved one, with a cremation to follow.
We offer a wide range of personalized services that help celebrate the life of your loved one while giving you several options for a public gathering and final resting place.
Learn more in our Cremation Solutions Guide below.
Memorial Service Ideas
Unlike a traditional funeral, a memorial service is a gathering where a casket is not present (although the urn with the cremated remains may be on display). A memorial service can be held weeks or even months after the death and cremation or burial.
A memorial service can be held in a local Lebanon County church, our funeral home, a community offering like the Quentin Grove, Warehouse435, or somewhere of importance to the deceased and family. There is usually music, selected readings, and a eulogy. Memorial services can be further personalized as a celebration of life.
Our experience has shown us that many of today's families want more than a traditional memorial service or gathering. This can be done by bringing more of the personality and lifestyle of the deceased into the arrangements. By displaying photographs or staging the event around a favorite pastime, a memorial service can become more personal and meaningful.
If a personalized memorial service suits the needs of your family, we suggest you consider the following questions:
- What did your loved one like to do?
- What was he or she like as an individual?
- What was their profession and how did that shape their life?
- Was your loved one spiritual?
- Was he or she proud of their cultural or ethnic heritage?
Cremation Solutions Guide
Direct Cremation
If you don't want any type of service, we offer direct cremation as an affordable option.
Traditional Funeral Service followed by Cremation
Many families find meaning and beauty in a traditional funeral service. With a traditional service combined with cremation, you can still choose to have a final viewing, visitation or wake and a graveside funeral service. However, instead of in-ground burial, the funeral will be followed by cremation.
Depending on your wishes, the cremated remains may be either returned to your family in an urn, scattered or interred in a columbarium. This option will include fees for the funeral services as well as the fees associated with the cremation itself.
Memorial Service
The memorial service can be held in our chapel, a church or any other venue you choose without or in conjunction with a graveside service. We work with our families to design a service that honors their loved one with stories, music or scripture.
Graveside Service
A graveside or committal service is typically held immediately following the funeral service but it can also be a small intimate gathering of those closest to you.
Permanent Memorialization for Cremation Ashes
Keeping an Urn at Home
This is a common choice and families can select the perfect urn for their loved one.
Placing the Urn in a Columbarium (aka, a “niche”)
Many families find comfort in having a final resting place that they can visit.
Burying the Urn
Similar to a casket, the in-ground burial of the urn allows for a final resting place.
Scattering of the Cremated Remains
Some families find comfort scattering the cremated remains in a place that was special to their loved one.
