Henderson-Bohn Funeral Home

Funerals fill an important role for those mourning the loss of a loved one by providing an atmosphere of care and support to share thoughts and feelings about death, serving as the first step in the healing process and a traditional way to recognize the finality of death. You can have a full funeral service even for those choosing cremation. Planning a personalized ceremony or service will help begin the healing process. Overcoming the pain is never easy, but a meaningful funeral or tribute will help.

Funeral directors pick up the deceased and transport the body to the funeral home (anytime day or night), notify proper authorities, family and/or relatives, arrange and prepare death certificates, provide certified copies of death certificates for insurance and benefit processing, work with the insurance agent, Social Security or Veterans Administration to ensure that necessary paperwork is filed for receipt of benefits, prepare and submit obituary to the newspapers of your choice, bathe and embalm the deceased body, if necessary, prepare the body for viewing including dressing and cosmetizing, assist the family with funeral arrangements and purchase of casket, urn, burial vault and cemetery plot, schedule the opening and closing of the grave with cemetery personnel, if a burial is to be performed, coordinate with clergy if a funeral or memorial service is to be held, arrange a police escort and transportation to the funeral and/or cemetery for the family, order funeral sprays and other flower arrangements as the family wishes, and provide Aftercare, or grief assistance, to the bereaved.

The funeral home will help coordinate arrangements with the cemetery. Bring the following information to complete the State vital statistic requirements: Birth Date, Birthplace, Father's Name, Mother's Name, Social Security Number, Veteran's Discharge or Claim Number, Education, Marital Status. Contact your clergy. Decide on time and place of funeral or memorial service. This can be done at the funeral home. The funeral home will assist you in determining the number of copies of the death certificates you will be needing and can order them for you. Make a list of immediate family, close friends and employer or business colleagues. Notify each by phone. Decide on appropriate memorial to which gifts may be made (church, hospice, library, charity or school). Gather obituary information you want to include such as age, place of birth, cause of death, occupation, college degrees, memberships held, military service, outstanding work, list of survivors in immediate family. Include time and place of services. The funeral home will normally write article and submit to newspapers (newspaper will accept picture and they will be returned intact). Arrange for members of family or close friends to take turns answering door or phone, keeping careful record of calls. If Social Security checks are automatic deposit, notify the bank of the death.

If you request immediate assistance, yes. If the family wishes to spend a short time with the deceased to say good-bye, that’s perfectly acceptable. Your funeral director will come when your time is right.

Burial in a casket is the most common method of disposing of remains in the United States, although entombment also occurs. Cremation is increasingly selected because it can be less expensive and allows for the memorial service to be held at a more convenient time in the future when relatives and friends can come together. A funeral service followed by cremation need not be any different from a funeral service followed by a burial. Usually, cremated remains are placed in urn before being committed to a final resting place. The urn may be buried, placed in an indoor or outdoor mausoleum or columbarium, or interred in a special urn garden that many cemeteries provide for cremated remains. The remains may also be scattered, according to state law.

Viewing is a part of many cultural and ethnic traditions. Many grief specialists believe that viewing aids the grief process by helping the bereaved recognize the reality of death. Viewing is encouraged for children, as long as the process is explained and the activity is voluntary.

Yes. Cremation is on Henderson-Bohn Funeral Home's service list.

Barr Funeral Home, Inc. (direct cremation $3,190), Hoenstine Funeral Home Inc (direct cremation $2,800) and Heller-Hoenstine Funeral Homes Inc (direct cremation $2,800).