Advance Planning to Reduce Burden

Commemorates lives and records deaths as part of its cemetery services. Creates permanent memorials that serve as sources of comfort for the living and maintains a perpetual record of individuals, contributing to the preservation of local history.

Hosted the Wreaths Across America Mobile Education Exhibit on August 8, 2021, to educate the public about honoring veterans and fallen service members.

Continuously maintains roads, plants trees, and cares for older sections of the cemetery to preserve the grounds. Provides permanent maintenance for burial sites as part of all burial rite purchases, ensuring lasting care and dignity.

Maintains private and confidential burial records and provides online access to search by first and last name to find birth and death dates of interred individuals. Fulfills genealogy requests as time permits.

Provides pre-planning services that allow individuals to make decisions about burial and memorialization in advance, reducing uncertainty for families. Offers pre-purchase of internment rights and service fees to lock in current prices, with interest-free payment plans available for burial, mausoleum, and cremation services.

Operates three mausoleums—Garden of Peace, Eternal Light, and Sunset Mausoleum Complex—offering outdoor granite crypts and indoor glass-front niches. Expanded the Eternal Light Mausoleum by adding 244 new crypts to meet demand for pre-planned arrangements.

Offers traditional in-ground burial options and maintains landscaped burial lots with trees and shrubs to create a garden-like atmosphere. Operates designated sections including Memorial Park with flush markers only and the Green Garden with uniform monuments and a gazebo. Provides private burial areas for families, including options for custom memorials and private mausoleums.

Operates a state-of-the-art, 7,300 square-foot on-site cremation center that provides cremation services with dignity and respect. The center includes a chapel for viewings and memorial services. Offers multiple memorialization options for cremated remains, including glass-front niches, traditional niches, in-ground burial, and mausoleum interment.

Operates daily from sunrise to sunset and maintains a park-like cemetery space for visitation and remembrance. Encourages public use for recreation and reflection, offering a sanctuary of peace and quiet for families to visit, reflect, and maintain intergenerational connections.

Provides a heated indoor gathering room and outdoor settings for memorial and committal services, offering free use of the indoor mausoleum space to families who own mausoleum interment rights.

Keeps and updates burial records published on the NyGenWeb website every 6 to 8 months and provides an outdoor map at the office to assist visitors in locating graves using lot numbers.

Operates and maintains nearly 30 acres of park-like cemetery grounds in Penfield, New York, including pathways, mature trees, and landscaped areas, ensuring a serene and dignified environment for visitation and remembrance.

Conducts burial operations including casket burial, filling and leveling of burial spaces, grave closure by 5:00 p.m., and removal of temporary markers and winter decorations such as wreaths after specified dates to maintain site appearance and safety.

Operates under a formally incorporated structure with an elected board of trustees established in 1889, and allocates proceeds from burial lot sales to a perpetual maintenance fund and operational expenses such as equipment, water, and utilities.

Offers traditional in-ground burial plots, above-ground entombment in a state-of-the-art mausoleum, and cremation placement options, including full-size crypts, cremation niches, and multi-cremation burials on existing graves, with several thousand interment sites available.

Supports families during funeral arrangements by coordinating with third-party providers including florists, limousine services, and local restaurants for catering. Maintains a list of trusted local florists and provides access to funeral homes through a resource network.

Provides construction and installation of durable foundations for monuments and memorials at budget-friendly prices. Also administers a fee approval process for sketch and sandblast engraving on headstones to ensure compliance and quality.

Maintains cemetery grounds in Center Moriches, NY, as a traditional, thoughtfully designed resting place for the deceased, including perpetual care and groundskeeping. Also maintains a memorial for victims of TWA Flight 800 located near the cemetery entrance.