Funerals

Wallace Funeral Home and Community Chapel is pleased to provide you with personal funeral planning services in your time of need. When a loved one dies, grieving family members and friends are often confronted with dozens of decisions about the funeral, all of which must be made quickly and often under great emotional duress.

 

What kind of funeral should it be? What funeral provider should you use? Should you bury or cremate the body, or donate it to science? What are you legally required to buy? What other arrangements should you plan? How much is it all going to cost?

 

The staff at Wallace Funeral Home are available to guide you through the funeral planning process. Our large service chapel is ideal for memorial services and funerals. Our chapel has a baby grand piano, a music system, and a projection screen for personalized photo or video tributes. For your family's convenience, we offer a web broadcast (live stream) of the service, a children's centre, and a nursing room. Please contact us for more information.

 

Wallace Funeral Home & Community Chapel is locally owned and independently operated. Our pledge: "To offer the experience, dignity, and respect that we all deserve at an affordable price." We encourage comparison: Our Staff, Our Service, Our Facility, Our Price.

 

What Makes up the Cost of a Funeral?

Professional Services

The Funeral Director will meet with the family to:

• Prepare vital statistics information
• Obtain obituary information
• Offer a selection of caskets and urns
• Obtain the signature and medical information from the attending physician or medical examiner (coroner)
• Preparation and embalming
• Coordinate times of services with clergy, cemetery or crematorium, Last Post, DVA, and Legion
• Contact service clubs such as Lions, Rotary, Kiwanis, and fraternal organizations such as the Orange Lodge, Eastern Star, Knights of Columbus and the Masonic Lodge
• Prepare all Canada Pension and Insurance forms
• Order and display floral tributes
• Follow up with after care program

Use of Facilities

Fixed overhead is our monthly bills which are totaled annually and divided by the number of services that were held within the year. Included are the following:

• Taxes
• House cleaning and supplies
• Building and yard maintenance
• Advertising and promotions
• Insurance
• Specialized continuing education
• Inventory of caskets
• Vehicle maintenance
• Office supplies
• Utilities

Merchandise

• Casket, cremation container or urn of your choice
• Memorial book, funeral portfolio and acknowledgement cards
• Complete cost and depreciation of the service car, our Funeral Coach and Clergy car

Funeral costs can range from $1,800.00 to $3,600.00.

We are also pleased to arrange for many cash disbursements which are not part of our funeral costs, such as the radio, Telegraph Journal, Kings County Record obituary, flowers, honorariums for clergy, organist and soloist, cemetery lots, opening and closing, receptions, final date on stone and monuments.  Cash disbursements are generally around $1,000.00 or more.

If you have any questions on funeral arrangements or any other aspect of the funeral, please contact us.

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