Frederick Funeral Homes offer a wide variety of services tailored to meet the specific and personal needs of each family. We serve all faiths, and can provide a full range of options to meet your individual religious or financial needs. The information below is intended to provide an overview of the many choices you have. Our staff is always available to meet with you, or to talk to you by phone, to answer the more detailed questions you're sure to have.

Traditional Services

The value of the traditional funeral service is realized and practiced in a number of areas. The death of a person profoundly affects relatives, friends, and associates in countless ways, and the funeral ceremony provides an opportunity for those survivors to express their love and respect, and to share their grief with others. It is an important part of adjusting to their loss. With careful, professional planning, the funeral can be a uniquely personal event which not only recognizes the end of a life, but also serves to celebrate how much the deceased contributed to the lives of those that he or she left behind. Our experienced, caring professionals are here to assist you through this very difficult time.

Traditional service options include, but are not limited to, selection of days of visitation, caskets, vaults, prayer cards, thank you cards, religious items, flowers of tribute, newspaper notices and monument inscriptions.

The Visitation

Gathering in the presence of the body, along with the family, provides a means of sharing common sorrows, and serves an important part in accepting that death has occurred.

The visitation can be private, but is most often open to the public. This gives an opportunity for community members to express their sorrow and offer their support to the immediate family.

The number of days and the hours of visitation vary according to religious, cultural, and local customs. It is common practice that consideration should be given to those who must work or travel, so most often both day and evening visitation is provided for.

The Funeral Service

Our staff will help you plan a service that best meets the specific and personal needs and preferences of the survivors. Our Funeral Homes all offer an atmosphere of beauty and reverence appropriate to the importance of the service, but a church or synagogue could also serve as a suitable location. The ceremony can have a traditional religious theme, or we can offer alternatives to personalize the service in a non-traditional way.

The service might include the reading of religious passages, and the offering of prayers, or it may include a eulogy or other tribute offered by a close friend or relative. Those offering the tribute might include personal annotations on the life of the deceased, or share thoughts that reflect upon how their lives were affected by having known that person. Whatever your preferences may be, we will assist you in making your decisions by offering suggestions based on our extensive experience in offering personalized services.

The funeral service is followed by burial or cremation at the cemetery or crematory with a final service graveside in the case of a burial, and a service in the chapel of the cremator yin the case of cremation.

Direct Funeral Service

A Direct Funeral or Direct Cremation is when there is no funeral ceremony. Once all necessary paperwork and documentation is completed, the deceased is transported to the crematory. These are limited discounted services which take place at the discretion of the funeral home. These services include the transfer of the remains, the funeral director, staff services, securing of necessary papers, an alternative container for cremation or burial, local transportation to the crematory or cemetery, and the return of the cremains back to the funeral home.