What Funeral Homes Do For Your Grieving Family

Walker Funeral Home
Cincinnati, Ohio
http://www.HerbWalker.com

Perfect Funeral Homes

funeral-homeIt is a hard thing to get rid of someone you care about and many are maybe not in the state-of mind to perform the formalities all by themselves. Funeral chapels can help you cope with the necessary procedures, and therefore you don’t have by yourself.

A funeral home can do lot many things for you. Additionally they do works like recovering the human anatomy and planning it for the funeral, handling the required paperwork for you and directing the funeral. In other words they ensure that procedure happens effortlessly.

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Spring Newsletter for Calumet Park Cemetery and Funeral Chapel has arrived…

Walker Funeral Home
Cincinnati, Ohio
http://www.HerbWalker.com

2013-01-21 05.06.46

Calumet Park Cemetery introduces a new concept to the region with the only Harley Hearse in NW Indiana.

Click below to see the Spring 2014 newsletter.  Besides a number of interesting items, the back page shows the Memorial Weekend schedule.  Mark you calendars for the events that you want to attend.

Calumet Park Newsletter for Spring 2014

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Carpe Mortem

Walker Funeral Home
Cincinnati, Ohio
http://www.HerbWalker.com

The Big Goodbye

The Kiss Kasket - it also functions as a cooler. The Kiss Kasket – it also functions as a cooler.

In December 2010, the online site devoted to selling all things Kiss to the costumed rock band’s devoted fans announced a new licensing agreement with Eternal Image Inc., a company that designs, manufactures and markets memorial products. As part of a new line of commemorative items marked with official Kiss graphics, the company would be creating a second generation of the “Kiss Kasket,” originally sold in 2001 but discontinued in 2008.

And so, since February 2011, a functional burial casket made of 20-gauge steel with black interior fabric and images of the leather-clad rockers has been available in two versions. The premium model ($3999) features a flame pattern that leaps upwards from the base, numerous logos (including one inside, presumably for the deceased to ponder in eternity) and shots of the group in action. The standard model ($3299) is, the…

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Why would we give away free graves worth $1000 to people?

Walker Funeral Home
Cincinnati, Ohio
http://www.HerbWalker.com

money in trap

Why not?  This is not some sort of bait and switch or trap to part you from your money.  Let me explain:

At Calumet Park Cemetery in Merrillville, Indiana, a single grave measures 42” x 9’…on average.    Getting some simple math out of the way before answering the question of why free graves:  each grave equals 31.5 square feet.  When you allow approximately 3” on either side of a grave for space between graves to allow future burials to not intrude on existing burials, then about 36 square feet equals one grave space.  There are 43,460 square feet in an acre of land which means that there are approximately 1210 graves per acre.

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michigan statium Five acres equals an area of 660′ x 330′ which means 80 stadiums would fit in Calumet Park Cemetery

Calumet Park Cemetery has over 250 “undeveloped” acres of land as of this date.   250 x 1210 graves…

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Honor the Memories of a Loved One First Before Everything Else

Walker Funeral Home
Cincinnati, Ohio
http://www.HerbWalker.com

Moore Funeral Homes

When I lost my mother, I had no clue of what was to come of me. While alive she tried to show me what to do for when she was to pass. Me not wanting to think about this I chose to listen with one ear. What a mistake that was, like I said before when she did pass I had no clue what to do.

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