Helping you plan & conduct a meaningful farewell event
We’ll handle the details so your family can relax, celebrate love, loyalty, & friendship
Tribute
Paying tribute to your loved ones in their own special way can help you move on more easily. Our team is committed in providing you with a funeral service that will honor your loved one.
Mourning
Expressing how you are feeling helps tremendously in dealing with your loss. Our caring staff will be at your side to help you throughout this process.
Support
We know how painful organizing a funeral can be. Our team will handle all the details for you, and will help you bring your family together, so that you and your loved ones get the support you need.
Traditional Services
A traditional funeral service takes place with the body present in a casket (open or closed). Many times there is a time to gather with friends and family followed by services either at the funeral home, at a church, or other location. The specifics of the visitation and the services are all up to the family. Traditional services usually end with a graveside service at a cemetery.
Traditional Followed by Cremation
These services take place with the body present in a casket (open or closed). A visitation and / or service is held at a location of the family’s choosing. After all visitations and services, the body is cremated. Once the cremation process has taken place, the family can choose to have a graveside service or keep the cremains. In some situations O’Connell’s can do all services in one day (traditional service in the morning, followed by cremation, followed by burial of cremains in afternoon).
Cremation
A cremation service takes place after the body has undergone the cremation process. There can be a gathering and visitation time with a service should the family desire one. This again can either take place at the funeral home, at a church or another venue. With cremation the family can bury the cremated remains at a cemetery or keep them as well. O’Connell Funeral Home is proud to have our own on-site crematory in the Baldwin location. Learn More About Countryside Crematory
Memorial Service
A memorial service takes place with no body, or cremated remains present. There can still be a time to gather and share as well as have services should the family desire. This can be done anywhere the family sees fit. Memorial services can also take place before or after the body has been buried or cremated.
Direct Burial
With a direct burial there are no services, visitations or viewings. Because of this, no embalming is needed. Shortly after death, the body is placed in a simple casket and vault and is buried. Graveside services can be held at the cemetery at the time of burial.
Direct Cremation
With direct cremation, the body is cremated and the cremains are returned to the family, buried, placed in a crypt or niche in a cemetery or in some cases, scattered. Graveside services can be held at the time of burial or entombment.
Death Away From Home
If your loved one dies away from home (ex. While wintering in Arizona or on vacation in another country, etc) O’Connell’s can still help with coordinating services. It is possible to return remains to our area for traditional or cremation services. Important: Make sure you call O’Connell’s immediately – FIRST – to coordinate all services!
Monuments and Markers
Our team is well versed in creating a cemetery tribute to honor your loved one. Being a “one stop shop” makes meeting with us convenient and easy. We work closely with local monument companies to help design a monument or marker, all while working to get you the best price and quickest installation in the cemetery you choose.
Personalization
A personalized funeral to honor your loved one while capturing what is unique about them. Regardless of the type of service – traditional, cremation, memorial, etc. We will do everything we can to make it memorable and special.
Veterans
Our team is well versed in creating a cemetery tribute to honor your loved one. Being a “one stop shop” makes meeting with us convenient and easy. We work closely with local monument companies to help design a monument or marker, all while working to get you the best price and quickest installation in the cemetery you choose.
Resources
No matter the circumstances surrounding death; whether sudden or chronic, peaceful or violent, sudden, unexpected, or even anticipated, death is difficult for everyone to cope with. The staff at O’Connell’s are always here to help in any way that we can.
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