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Our Services

Traditional Funeral Arrangements

We are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to provide prompt, compassionate and competent service. Contacting our funeral home is the first step in the process of arranging a funeral service. We will provide answers to questions that you may have immediately and schedule a time, convenient for you, to complete the funeral arrangements. Thomas E. Burger Funeral Home, Inc., is able to provide the following services including:

• Transfer of the deceased from place of death to our funeral home.
• Arrangement conference to determine specific desires for the funeral service.
• Complete preparation of the deceased, including embalming, cosmetology, dressing and casketing.
• A wide range of caskets, burial vaults and clothing.
• An exquisite selection of prayer cards, acknowledgement cards, memorial folders and programs.
• Coordination of service plans with clergy, newspaper, cemetery and fraternal organizations.
• Complete use of our spacious funeral home.
• Use of our vehicles necessary to provide services chosen.
• Payment options.
• Assistance and attention to detail in cases where death occurs away from home.
• Assistance in ordering fitting floral tributes.
• Personalization is a major emphasis with the families that we serve.

Cremation Services

Kindly review the "Traditional Funeral Arrangements" section. All types of traditional services are available to those choosing cremation.

Cremation defined: Cremation is the process of reducing human remains to their original elements by the application of intense heat or burning. A body must be placed in either a casket or cremation container. Following the cremation process, the cremated remains are typically placed in an urn for final disposition.

Many families are relieved to learn that several options are available when cremation is chosen. The Cremation Service Options are:

• Visitation and Service
• Private Viewing and Service
• Private Viewing Only
• Memorial Service
• Immediate Cremation

Visitation is typically held at the funeral home. It is open to the public and allows family members to receive condolences and support. The specific time period is scheduled at the convenience of the family depending on the availability of our facility.

Private Viewing is also typically held at the funeral home and the guests are chosen by the family. It is not a public event and privacy is respected. Both types of viewing, public and private allow the opportunity to say good-bye in a respectful and peaceful setting.

Funeral Services and Memorial Services may be either religious events or contemporary in style. They allow the opportunity for the family, friends. neighbors and colleagues of the deceased to express their feelings, share memories and lend support to those most affected by the death. Funeral Services typically are conducted with the deceased present, while Memorial Services often include the presence of the urn, containing the cremated remains of the deceased.

Immediate Cremation is available for those preferring no gathering or structured type of religious or contemporary service. The deceased is cremated promptly after death and the cremated remains are returned to the family.

Following the Cremation Process, there is one final decision necessary for the final disposition of the cremated remains. While many urns are attractive forms of art, and may be retained by individuals. Many choose permanent placement either in a cemetery or mausoleum. This process is known as inurnment.

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