About The Cost

The following charges for direct cremation and direct burial do not include any additional items or services, merchandise, facility use, and livery that the customer may wish to select.

Direct Cremation: Prices range 

This charge does not include the use of facilities and staff for any visitation or ceremony, public or private, prior to cremation, or any sheltering for days on which no post death activities occur. Nor does it include the actual cost of the cremation process, which is a crematory charge, or any other cash disbursements, or anything not expressly stated as being provided.

Direct cremation includes basic services of funeral director and staff, the local transfer of remains to the funeral home, basic sheltering of the remains, securing necessary authorizations and permits, sanitary care and preparation of remains for identification, local transportation to the crematory and the return of the remains to the funeral home.

Option A:  – Direct cremation with container supplied by the purchaser.

Option B:  – Direct cremation using a corrugated box with no interior lining.

If you want to arrange a direct cremation, you may use an unfinished wooden box or an alternative container. Alternative containers can be made of heavy cardboard, pressed wood or composition materials (with or without an outside covering), or may be pouches of canvas or other materials.

Direct cremation prices do not include the crematory charge.

Prices range 

This charge does not include the use of facilities and staff for any visitation or ceremony, public of private, prior to burial, or any sheltering for days on which no post death activities occur. Nor does it include the actual cost of the grave at the cemetery, or the cemetery’s charges for opening and closing of the grave, any required outer burial container or cash disbursements, or anything not expressly stated as being provided.
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Immediate burial includes basic services of funeral director and staff, the local transfer of remains to the funeral home, securing necessary authorizations and permits,basic sheltering of the remains, sanitary care and preparation of remains for identification, local transportation to the cemetery.

Option A:  -Immediate burial using alternative container supplied by the purchaser.

Option B:  -Immediate burial using corrugated box with no interior lining.

Option C:  – Immediate burial with casket selected from our funeral home, casket cost is additional.

Direct (Immediate) burial prices do not include the cemetery charges.

(Includes personnel, equipment and vehicles)
 

The charge for our services will be added to the total cost of the funeral arrangements you select. However, this charge will not be added to the cost for direct cremation, direct burial, forwarding of remains, or receiving of remains because the prices for those services include this charge.

(FTC) – This fee for our basic services will be added to the total cost of funeral arrangements you select. (This fee is already included in our charges for direct cremations, immediate burials, and forwarding or receiving remains.)

Basic arrangements: including funeral director, other staff, equipment, and facilities to respond to initial request for service, the arrangement conference, securing of necessary authorizations and coordination of service plans with parties involved in the final disposition of the deceased.

EMBALMING
(FTC) – Embalming is not required by law. Embalming may be necessary, however, if you select certain funeral arrangements, such as a funeral with viewing. If you do not want embalming, you usually have the right to choose an arrangement, such as direct cremation or immediate burial, that does not require you to pay for it.

In New York State, embalming is not required by law. Embalming may be necessary, however, if you select certain funeral arrangements, such as a funeral with viewing. If you do not want embalming, you usually have the right to choose an arrangement, such as direct cremation or immediate burial, that does not require you to pay for it.

OTHER PREPARATION OF REMAINS: (Excluding Embalming)

* Custodial care will not be charged on the days when embalming or other preparation of remains occurs, visitation is held or a funeral service is conducted.

Caskets 
A complete price list is available from the funeral home.

Alternative Containers 
Outer Burial Container 
A complete price list is available from the funeral home.

Cremation Urns 

This funeral home will purchase additional services and merchandise for its customers.  The prices in this section include a charge for our services in obtaining these items.

Forwarding of Remains 

This charge includes the local transfer of the remains to the funeral home, securing necessary authorizations, services of funeral director and staff, local transportation to point of shipment. The charge does not include shipping charges or additional items of services, merchandise, facility use and livery that the customer may wish to select.

Transfer or other transportation by funeral home livery beyond a radius of twenty-five miles is subject to an additional charge of     per loaded mile or common carrier.

Receiving of Remains 

This charge includes the basic local transportation of the deceased to the funeral home, and arrangements which include services of the funeral director and staff plus required authorizations. The charge does not include additional items of service, merchandise, facility use, and livery that the customer may wish to select.

Transfer or other transportation by funeral home livery beyond a radius of twenty-five miles is subject to an additional charge of     per loaded mile or common carrier.