Funeral Service Options

SERVICE OPTIONS

The most important consideration when planning a funeral is arranging a service which best suits the needs of you and your family. Other important things to consider include choosing an appropriate casket,selecting flowers, and making cemetery arrangements. We will be available to help you with making selections that best fulfill your personal wishes.

Traditional Service

This service option incorporates all of the aspects traditionally thought of regarding a funeral, such as an open casket visitation with a funeral service following sometime the next day. The funeral service can take place at a church or within the funeral home. This service option would also include a procession to a cemetery, followed by a burial.

Traditional Service Ending
with Cremation

This service option incorporates all of the aspects of a Traditional Funeral ending with burial, except that cremation is chosen as final disposition. There can still be an open casket visitation, funeral service of your choosing, and even a procession to a cemetery chapel for a final committal. However, when the services are completed, the remains are directed to a crematorium instead of a grave for burial.The option always remains to have the cremains buried at a later time.

Funeral With Visitation At The
Time of Service

This service option allows for the condensing of the funeral services from two or more days into one. An open casket visitation would be held in the morning, prior to any formal funeral services taking place.Again, the funeral service itself can take place at a church or within the funeral home. This service, like the Traditional Funeral options,can end with a burial or cremation.

Cremation Memorial Service

This service involves the cremation of the body then a gathering of friends and relatives afterwards. The cremains can be placed in a customized urn or need not be present for the services.

Immediate Burial

This service option is the simplest with regard to services ending with a burial. This option would allow for the director to oversee the burial of the remains at a cemetery of the family’s choice. Additional options are available to facilitate a graveside service with a minister or priest of the family’s choice.

Direct Cremation

This service option is the simplest with regard to final disposition of the remains being cremated. In this case, the director will oversee the cremation of the remains and the return of the cremains to the family.Additional options are available to facilitate a memorial service,graveside service with burial, or scattering of the cremains.

TYPES OF FUNERALS

Personalizing the funeral or memorial service allows families to be creative. There are endless ideas and options for families for both traditional and cremation services.

Firefighter Funerals

Greg and Margaret have been involved in several Line of Duty Deaths and Retired Firefighter Funerals.

Greg Hurd has been a firefighter for more than twenty years. Currently Greg is the Assistant Chief of the Chillicothe Fire Department. Assigned as the Chief Training Officer. He holds many certifications including: Firefighter III, Fire Service Instructor III, Fire and Arson Investigations, Hazardous Materials Operations Tech, and Self Contained Breath Apparatus Specialist.

Greg Hurd knows first hand the commitment and dedication it takes to be a volunteer firefighter.

Greg Hurd is a member of the Illinois Fire Chief Association and the Illinois Firefighter Association.

Celebration of Life Ceremonies

Weber-Hurd Funeral Home has facilitated several Celebration of Life Ceremonies. This usually includes a facilitator who coordinates the service. The service includes a memorial video, music and eulogies by family and friends. This type of service allows for many creative ideas.

Families have decorated the funeral home with photos and memoriabila for guests to view.

Gathering With a Potluck

We have had gatherings of friends and relatives for remembering the life of a loved one at the funeral home or other location that allows for food to be serve in a buffett or potluck format. We provide tables for guests to sit at to eat and visit. This makes for a nice informal gathering.

Families may have special music to be play and setup memoriabila displays during the gathering.

Veterans Service

Weber-Hurd Funeral Home has performed many services for veterans. We can help the family with veteran benefits, with veterans insurance, and government monument. We have many veteran casket, vaults and urns to choose from. We can help the family with displaying military memoriabila, uniforms and decorations/medals.