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Funeral Services
Our staff strives to provide dignified, professional and personalized
service. We strive to help every family personalize their service to
appropriately honor their loved one. When a death occurs, there are details to
take care of and decisions and arrangements to be made. Our professional,
licensed funeral directors assume those responsibilities for you, and you can
depend on us to provide a service that is truly memorable, flawlessly planned,
and correct to the smallest detail. We believe that no two people are alike, so
funerals should be highly individual and highly personal. Perhaps the most
important part of our service is in making a funeral a personalized, meaningful
celebration of the life that has been lived. Services are available from
dignified simplicity to formalities of choice, whether in a church or religious
institution of your choice, the Whitted Funeral Chapel, or by the graveside.
When cremation is requested, this preference always includes opportunities for
appropriate religious rites, memorial celebration, memorial reception and other
choices including a traditional funeral service with viewing followed by
cremation.
Cremation
Cremation is a process in which intense heat is used to transform the body
back to its basic elements. The body, enclosed in a container approved for
cremation, is placed in a cremation chamber. The soft tissue is vaporized. The
remains, called cremains, are not ashes, but bone fragments weighing from three
to nine pounds on average. The cremains can be kept by the survivors in a
cremation urn or container, stored in a columbarium, buried or scattered,
depending on local laws and regulations. We offer local aerial scattering as
well if so desired by the family.
Cremation does not take the place of customary funeral services; it's merely
another form of final disposition. You may chose cremation as the means for
disposition and still elect to have an open or closed casket funeral service. We
offer cremation options from a direct cremation with no viewing, visitation or
religious rites, to a full service funeral, which may include a public or
private wake, and a service followed by cremation. There are many options and
choices in planning a service with cremation.
As with a "traditional" funeral, cremation services can be personalized in many
of the same ways. Personal items displayed at the visitation, personalized
casket and urns. We would be happy to discuss any special request or ideas you
have to make the any service more meaningful. We offer picture collage boards
and will be able to make video tributes soon. As with any funeral, arrangements
can be as individual as the people involved.