What We Offer

Four kinds of service. One way of doing things.

Most families pick one of four arrangements. We'll walk you through whichever fits — we won't push, won't upsell, won't pretend a $9,000 casket is what your mother would have wanted unless your mother already told you so.

Plenty of families do a mix. A traditional visitation in the chapel followed by a cremation. A memorial gathering in the garden a few weeks later. Whatever shape fits is the right shape.

No. 01

Traditional Service

Visitation in our chapel, a service with eulogy and music, procession to the cemetery off Route 322, committal at the graveside. We arrange the flowers, the program, the limousine, the music, and the meal that follows. Most of our families still pick this. There's a reason — the structure of a traditional service is part of how grief gets through the first week.

We work with First Methodist, First Presbyterian, St. Mary's Catholic, and the smaller churches around town. We work without a church too. Whatever the family wants.

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No. 02

Cremation

About half the families we serve now choose cremation. The shape of the service is the same as a traditional — just the disposition is different. Cremation can be paired with a visitation, a chapel service, a graveside committal at the cemetery, or none of the above. We'll explain the options in plain language at the kitchen table.

We use Wakefield Crematory in Williamsport, the same partner Bill chose in 1985. We drive your loved one there ourselves. The certificate comes back to us, and from us to your hand.

No. 03

Memorial Gathering

Some families don't want the service the week of. The grief is too raw, or the family is scattered, or there's just nothing in the calendar that works. A memorial gathering — held weeks or months later, sometimes at the cemetery, sometimes in the garden behind the chapel, sometimes in a family member's home — gives the loss a different shape.

Same care, same attention to the readings and the music and the people who came. We can host it here, or we can travel to where you are.

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No. 04

Pre-Planning

Choosing the music, the readings, the cemetery plot, the disposition — choosing while you can — is a gift to whoever will be left to choose for you. The conversation costs nothing, takes about an hour, and can happen at your kitchen table, at the chapel, or at the diner on Pine. Sarah will tell you she'd rather the diner.

Pre-funding is optional. If chosen, funds go into a PA-regulated trust, dollar-for-dollar against the eventual bill, and transfer to any licensed funeral home in any state.