Design a Healing Experience
Explore the many unique ways to celebrate and honor a life.
Whether you choose burial or cremation, having a service to honor life, and a permanent place to visit remains, is an essential part of the healing process. We’ll educate you on the traditional and nontraditional inclusions in these ceremonies—and help you design an observance that’s as unique as the life it’s about.
Comfort in Tradition
Comfort in Tradition.
We’ll help you design a service with classic rites and rituals that will feel like timeless tributes.
Patriotic Honor
Patriotic Honor.
Show the deepest respect to a veteran with a flag presentation and 21-rifle salute.
Together Is Better
Together Is Better.
For burials and cremations, create a unifying service with readings, memories and spirituality.
Savor Memories
Savor Memories.
Gather loved ones with a delicious feast in a relaxed gathering.
Ride Strong.
Ride Strong.
Bring a prized vehicle into the service, from a fire truck they served on to a restored hot rod.
No Place Like Home.
No Place Like Home.
Bring family and friends together in a home or private garden, around familiar belongings.
How Would You Like To Be Honored?
How Would You Like To Be Honored?
Funerals unite people when they need each other most. These services can be opportunities to celebrate everything amazing about the life that was lived. And also to give guests a meaningful, healing experience. Explore a range of ideas and find what speaks to you.
A Sporting Celebration
A Sporting Celebration.
For fans, you can show the passion of the game through memorabilia, tailgating and more.
Keepsakes and Heirlooms.
Keepsakes and Heirlooms.
Bring a set of objects that shares a treasured hobby, and guests can even leave with an item.
The Game Goes On
The Game Goes On.
For card sharks, Scrabble pros or billiard players, the game can be incorporated as a tribute.
Take The Stage
Take The Stage.
For thespians and opera lovers, a theatrical event can be the perfect end to a brilliant life.
Into The Deep
Into The Deep.
For a loved one who feels home at sea, cremated remains can be scattered over an expanse of ocean.
Reach for the Stars
Reach for the Stars.
“Fly me to the moon; let me sing among those stars.” Many of us long to be able to travel among the planets of our solar system and out among the stars. Becoming part of the cosmos may be the perfect ‘send off’ for someone special.
Designing Your Funeral
There are two facets of the design process. First, we ask you to consider how you wish to honor and celebrate the life. When those important decisions are made, we’ll turn to the issue of how you wish to care for the physical remains.
Designing Your Funeral
It’s about bringing those you love together, at a time of loss. It’s a natural thing to do, and over time, has become a socially-expected practice. More importantly, a funeral or memorial service, whether traditional, or contemporary, is the first step in healing.
You can have your service anywhere, and any way, you want. Your choices include the place of celebration, day of the week, and time of day; the musical selection, what prayers will be said or songs you’d like sung. We can arrange to have doves, butterflies, or balloons released at the close of the service. Keepsake gifts of wildflower seeds or a tree seedling can be given. We’re here to help you create the most memorable and meaningful service to honor your loved one.
Burial or Cremation?
Your next consideration focuses on choosing between burial and cremation. Usually, people are clear on this point. In fact, your loved one may have told you, or someone else, exactly how they wish to be cared for. But it can be a hard decision for some families, especially when the wishes of the deceased were never clearly stated. If that's the case, please know we're able to help you come to the perfect decision for your loved one, and for you.
Once you decide, the finer details come into focus. If you've chosen burial, then selection of the casket, vault, and desired cemetery follows. Naturally, we’re here to help you.
If cremation is your choice, then you'll need to make the next decision: whether the cremated remains will be placed in a mausoleum niche, or buried on the cemetery grounds.
In some communities, there's the option for a 'green burial.' If that's what your loved one would prefer, we'll help you select an environmentally-friendly choice.
Designing Your Memorial
There are few decisions in life as personal as deciding where you wish to be permanently memorialized. After all, it is a decision that extends into the lifetimes of your children and grandchildren – where do you wish them to go to honor your memory and share their emotions?
Ground Burial
Deciding on the type of memorial property is a very personal decision. Tate Mortuary provides a setting where meditation, reflection, remembrance, and healing can take place.
Mausoleums
Mausoleums allow for above ground entombment in either community buildings or specially designed family structures. At one time the advantages of mausoleum entombment were available only to royalty, the famed or the very wealthy. Well-known mausoleums include the Taj Mahal, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Egyptian Pyramids. Mausoleum property is now affordable to most everyone.
The mausoleum at Tate Mortuary is a community mausoleum with crypt spaces and cremation niche sections. Private family mausoleum property is also available. These mausoleums are individually designed, custom-built and personalized to reflect the traditions and values of the individual.
Cremation Options
Cremation niches, including those with glass front panels, are available in our mausoleum, and in our outdoor cremation Water Garden. We also provide bench, tree, and statue memorial interment of cremated remains.
