To arrange for the cremation services offered in Harborcreek, PA, you will meet with the funeral home’s funeral director soon after your loved one dies. Usually this meet to make funeral arrangements happens the day after your loved one dies, but it may happen sooner or later than this, depending on the funeral home’s current level of activity.
Before you go to this meeting, you should have paperwork ready to take with you. This paperwork will include your loved one’s birth certificate, social security card, marriage license (or divorce decree, if applicable), military discharge orders (DD-214) if you want military honors as part of a memorial service, and the obituary (if you have one written) for your loved one.
When you meet with the funeral home director, they will get all the pertinent information they need to make sure the death certificates get filed and that Social Security gets notified of your loved one’s death. The DD-214 will enable the funeral director to make arrangements with the local Department of Veterans Affairs or an auxiliary veteran’s group to handle military honors at your loved one’s memorial service.
Currently, you should note, that military honors may not be available during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. However, you should plan to hold a memorial service that includes those after all the gathering restrictions are lifted. You can go ahead and make the full arrangements with the funeral director. They will make it all happen when they are able to do so.
If you don’t already have an obituary written, the funeral director can help you write one for your loved one. You can choose to have it published only on the funeral home’s website or on both the funeral home’s website and in the local newspaper.
You should be aware that newspapers charge by the word for printed obituaries (pictures with the obituaries are an additional) cost, so the most cost-effective way to have the obituary announcement made is on the funeral home’s website.
Once the obituary is published on the funeral home’s website, the funeral director will email you a link to it, which you can then share by email or on social media to let others know about the death of your loved one.
The next thing you will discuss with the funeral director is cremation services. The funeral home has a full range of services and the funeral director will help you choose and customize these for your loved one.
One of the things that you will be able to choose is an urn for your loved one’s cremation remains. The funeral home has many different types of urns to choose from and many of these can be customized to reflect your loved one’s interests and passions. Once the funeral home gets your loved one’s cremation remains back, they will place them in the urn you’ve chosen and seal it before giving it to you.
One thing that you may want, either placed in the urn with your loved one’s cremation remains, or to keep in a locket, is a small amount of your loved one’s hair. Simply ask the funeral director to cut some and keep it for you – or put it in the urn – and they will take care of this request.
After this initial meeting with the funeral director, they will continually stay in touch with you to check on the obituary, to let you know when the urn (and any other memorials you order) are ready, and what the current status of holding the memorial service is.
For more information about cremation services in Harborcreek, PA, our caring and knowledgeable staff at Brugger Funeral Homes & Crematory, LLP can assist you.
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