About Funeral Services

The funeral service has three rites: the visitation, the service, and the interment. Each rite is separate and distinct. However, together they create a powerful and necessary means of expression.

The choice of service, merchandise, and disposition will have an impact on how the community, your family, and you will process the grief associated with the death of a loved one. There is no shortcut to coping with grief. What we do after the death of our loved one will determine how we adjust to the reality of death.

A funeral ritual is a meaningful event created by the family of the deceased. The ceremony focuses on the life of your loved one. Touched by the words and actions of your loved one, both family and friends are able to appreciate and remember the impact of this person who has died.

Sometimes, families believe that immediate disposal of the body will ease the pain of loss. At Joseph S. Klecatsky & Sons Funeral Home, it is our experience that having a funeral ceremony is a necessity to validate the reality of death. If there is no service, then family, friends, colleagues, and others are faced with a void - an emptiness - that makes their grief resolution more difficult.

We believe in the importance of the funeral ritual. It permits all who knew your family member the opportunity to share memories, celebrate the life-lived, and cope with loss in the healthiest way possible.