TRADITIONAL VETERAN BURIAL PACKAGES
Services to remember and celebrate the life of your loved one may be held, coordinated, and directed by our staff in our funeral home, church, or other special event place. Special event places may include a park with a BBQ for guests, family farm with bluegrass music with guest seating on hay bales, performance theater or music venue with a live band, boat house at the lake, country club, event center location/barn, or other. We do all the work so you may focus on healing.
We are able to coordinate special receptions and catering with favorite foods/meals in our reception area, on location with catering services, food trucks, other.
Types of services and programs are endless from traditional religious church services to non-religious special services that remember and commemorate your loved one as he or she lived, while also providing for those to grieve and start the healing journey.
The following items are included in each package:
- 18-gauge Sealer Casket (can be special military with service emblem)
- Professional services of funeral director and staff
- Transfer of remains to funeral home from place of death, within 15-mile radius -additional mileage may apply
- Embalming and other preparation of decedent
- Facilities and staff for visitation and funeral service at Walnut Lawn Funeral Home (Another location: $350 extra)
- Preparing veteran paperwork
- Assistance with writing of obituary and placement in newspaper(s) (additional cost for paid obituaries may apply)
- Life Tribute DVD Prep
- Music CD prep for funeral (3 songs max)
- Legacy Fingerprints
- Receiving flowers at funeral home where pictures are taken and catalogued in the register book for the family
- Premium Patriotic Memorial Book Package with:
- 100 memorial folders with basic design and printing
- 50 thank you notes – (Upgrade themed book packages available)
- Committal service at cemetery with hearse
- Flower car and flower delivery to family home (within 5 miles of the funeral home)
- 1 Certified Death Certificate
Traditional burial package DOES NOT INCLUDE (you may add items of your choice): Sealed vault (concrete grave liner provided by military at no cost), casket spray/flowers, honorariums for officiant or musicians, paid obituary fees, or sales tax. There is no breaking of basic service package items due to significant discount savings.
Package prices include visitations Monday-Friday 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM, funerals Monday-Friday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, and either or on Saturdays 8:00 AM - 12:00 noon. Additional charges for services and/or visitation outside of these regular times.
No burials on weekends or holidays at Veterans Cemeteries. Funeral home MUST help family schedule services at cemetery to avoid conflicts with schedules.
The following items are included in each package:
Difference between Patriotic and Economy Veteran Packages is as follows (everything else the same as stated in the Patriotic Traditional Burial Package):
Basic Military Memorial Book Package
20-gauge Non-sealer Casket (choice of 5 colors)
All direct cremation, and basic cremation and memorial service package items listed PLUS:
- Visitation followed by a funeral service, then cremation
- Embalming and other preparation of the body
- Rental Casket
- 20-gauge steel casket or oversized Oak (included in price)
*Any wood casket in our display room may be purchased to be used for the service, then used to cremate deceased. Price of casket as posted.
- Deduct $500 if no visitation
- No charge for a veteran committal service to the Springfield Veterans Cemeteries.
All direct cremation items listed PLUS:
- Visitation OR Memorial Service in our chapel
- Services of funeral director and cremation staff
- Basic Memorial Book Package with:
- 100 memorial folders with basic design and printing
- 50 thank you notes – (Upgrade themed book packages available)
- Tribute DVD Prep (up to 50 photos)
- Music prep for service (2-3 songs)
- Decorative urn choice allowance
- 1 Death Certificate
- Use of urn bier for service
- Basic identification viewing for 2 family members for 5 minutes with family safely in viewing room.
- Additional charge to add a visitation or memorial service with the other.
- Committal Service - No charge for a veteran to the Springfield Veterans Cemeteries.
Includes all the direct cremation items listed PLUS:
- Memorial Service at MO Veterans Cemetery or Springfield National Cemetery in Springfield, MO
- Choice of Decorative Urn
- 1 Death Certificate
- Formal Processional to Cemetery
- Completion of Veteran Paperwork
- Plot, Opening and Closing, Monument/Marker
- Funeral Coach to Cemetery
- Urn Bier
- For Veterans Only: Military Honors- Final Salute, Flag
- Line, and Escort by WWR and/or Patriot Guard Riders - Flag
*Urn allowance in packages – Individuals and/or families may choose a personalized urn from our large selection of urns and jewelry available at the funeral home show room; may also review urn options under merchandise on our website.
