Types of Memorials

Cremation Memorials: Cremation is a growing trend and gives more choices for memorialization than ever before. A cremation memorial can be for one person, a family or community. Cremation benches may be ideal for placement of cremains in the cored legs. Boulders offer a natural alternative for monuments and signs. These stones can vary in size and color and may be presented with flattened areas, bronze markers or plaques or polished surfaces and cut with cored holes to allow for placement of cremains, urns or time capsules. They can be a special addition to a home garden.

Traditional hand-crafted monuments can be sandblasted or hand-carved with different style lettering and designs/symbols on cuts, shapes, finishes, colors, and textures of granite to create the ideal monument. Styles/shapes include upright headstones, flat/lawn/level markers, slants, bevels and ledgers/grave covers. Photographs or bronze plaques can be added.

Laser etching headstones and plaques: Hand etched designs can be created on virtually any color granite and on any shape memorial. With endless possibilities, etchings allow you to create your own images and inscriptions for enduring beauty. You may use standard ideas available or a photograph of your choice, collectible or other images that will preserve the memory of your loved one on your family memorial. Color etchings may be colored by hand or by special sublimation processes that embed color into the stone.

Crypts & Mausoleums: A crypt or mausoleum can be an ideal way to preserve the memory of an individual or an entire family. Crypt designs are available in a variety of configurations and a walk-in mausoleum can be custom designed for two to eight niches.

Pet memorials: Quality memorials for your faithful companions.

We can commerate or personalize someone's life on any memorial through the beautiful language of symbols. Families have their own tastes, colorful histories, faiths and beliefs, sacrifices, children, and memories that they want to convey to create a meaningful memorial. There are many symbols, some thousands of years old. Generations have understood these symbols for which words are inadequate.

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