Burial Services

Perkins Funeral Home & Cremation Service offers distinctive and personal services designed to help you honor your loved one in a way that is unique to them and meaningful to you.

There are various services available for the burial of a loved one, depending on individual needs and preferences:

• Visitation, also known as a viewing, wake, or calling hours, provides an opportunity for family and friends to gather in a room with the deceased loved one in an open or closed casket. This allows them to say goodbye or offer their support and sympathy to the bereaved.
• Funeral or memorial services can be held at a funeral home, church, or even at home. These services are ceremonies that celebrate, honor, and remember the life of the deceased. Whether traditional or unique, both the visitation and the funeral service can be personalized to reflect the individuality of your loved one.
• Graveside, chapel, or committal services are held at the cemetery and allow family and friends to be present as their loved one is transferred to their final resting place through ground burial.
• Immediate burial is an option for burying or entombing your loved one without a public service or gathering.

Cremation Services

The biggest misconception about cremation is that there can't be a funeral service or visitation. This is absolutely not the case, and we encourage you to consider holding a memorial service to celebrate the life of the deceased as well. There are many options open to you when it comes to honoring your loved one's life. After the cremation and memorial services, there are a variety of choices for your loved one's final disposition:



• Interment means that you'll bury or entomb your loved one's cremated remains. This can be in a family plot, a memorial site, a cremation niche or urn garden, or in a variety of other indoor and outdoor locations. Ask our staff for a detailed list of interment possibilities.
• Graveside services are similar to those celebrated alongside a traditional ground burial, in which loved ones are present at the burial of the cremated remains and honor the deceased through memorial prayers or other meaningful tributes.
• Scattering allows you to spread your loved one's cremated remains in a memorial garden, a cemetery, over water, or across any other meaningful site. You also can choose to scatter some of the cremated remains and retain the rest in an urn for interment or another form of disposition.
• Placing cremated remains in multiple urns allows family members who are separated by distance to each feel the comfort of having their loved one's final resting place in a nearby location.