Thinking of Cremation?

If you’re thinking about cremation, you may want to know more about the process and the many services available to you.

Cremation dates back to ancient times, people choose cremation for a variety of reasons. Philosophical, religious, environmental, and financial reasons sometimes play a very important role. Our purpose at Kramer Family Funeral Home, is to provide your family with affordable cremation services while preserving dignity, support and caring for your family.

Keep in Mind, at no other time is the support and caring of family, friends, and the community more needed or more appreciated than at time of death. Setting aside a specific time and place for people to gather allows everyone an opportunity to show their love and support. Your choices and ideas for services are unlimited. It has been said that the sharing of grief with our family and friends helps to lessen that grief. Through the ages, memorialization has served to fulfill our instinctive wish to honor those who have died. When you select cremation, it is important to recognize that it is only a process for preparing a body for its final disposition—not a replacement for memorialization, unless you so desire. For this reason, we offer you a range of memorialization options to best serve your needs.

The Process:
Cremation is the process in which the body of the deceased is reduced to bone fragments by the way of intense heat. The body is placed in a cremation container and then placed in a special furnace called a cremation chamber or retort for approximately 2-3 hours to complete at an average temperature of 1800 degrees Fahrenheit. Fragments of the remains are processed into a finer substance or ashes. Cremated remains then are placed in an urn or temporary container. Cremains of an average size adult weigh between three and nine pounds and take up a volume of approximately 200 cubic inches.

Your best source of information regarding cremation or other forms of disposition is your funeral director. One of our professional funeral directors can assist you in making informed decisions, by making you aware of all the services and merchandise available and their benefits.

CREMATION OPTIONS:

There are three options when you select Cremation as your form of final disposition.

1.) Traditional Service followed by Cremation: Having a funeral with body present provides a period of time for the family and friends to gather informally to pay respects, as well as an established time for a formal funeral ceremony. You may choose to have a public viewing and a traditional funeral service followed by cremation.

2.) Cremation followed with a Memorial Service: The Memorial Service after Cremation, with or without urn present, provides an opportunity for family and friends to join together in a formal ceremony. This will serve to acknowledge that a life has been lived, as well as a declaration that a life has ended. We can help you plan a personalized memorial service that will be a meaning final event in our chapel or your local church.


3.) Cremation Only: If you select cremation as final disposition of the body without viewing, visitation or funeral service, our services will include the support of our staff, necessary authorizations, removal and care of the remains, transportation to crematory, cremation, shipping cremains back to funeral home.


FINAL DISPOSITION OPTIONS:

There are four options for Final Disposition of Cremated Remains.

1.) Burial of the cremains in a Cemetery
2.) Above ground Entombment
3.) Scattering
4.) Permanent possession

Our staff can answer any of your questions about cremation, including how to pre-plan to make your wishes known. We can talk to you about all of your options, the cost involved, and even show you a selection of services available, including a wide range of urns, urn vaults, keepsakes and other merchandise.

For information on Cremation Costs, please contact us for a Cremation Price List.