Pricing

The goods and services shown below are those we can provide to our customers. You may choose only the items you desire. However, any funeral arrangement you select will include a charge for our basic services and general operating overhead. If legal or other requirements mean you must buy any item you did not specifically ask for, we will explain the reason on the statement we provide, describing the funeral goods and services you have selected.

Traditional Service Package

Basic Services of Funeral Director & Staff

Our fee for the services of the funeral director and staff includes, but not limited to: 24 Hr. staff to respond to initial request for service; arrangement conference with family or responsible party; preparation and filing of necessary legal permits and certificates; preparation and placement of obituary notices; coordination of those providing other services, e.g. clergy, cemetery, crematory and others; assistance relating to social security, life insurance, pension, veterans, and other survivor benefits; shelter of remains. Also included in this charge is an allocation of fixed and general operating overhead relative to our facility such as insurance, maintenance, building and utility expenses and administrative costs. This fee for our services and general operating overhead will be added to the total cost of funeral arrangements you have selected. (This fee is already included in our charges for direct cremation, immediate burials, and forwarding or receiving remains. Additional charges may be accessed when filing for government assisted funerals and cremation services, eg cemetery or crematory fees.)

Except in certain special cases, embalming is not required by law. Embalming may be necessary, however, if you select certain funeral arrangements, such as a funeral with a viewing. If you do not want embalming, you usually have the right to choose an arrangement that does not require you to pay for it, such as direct cremation or immediate burial.

A. Basic care of remains: (dressing, casketing, cosmetology)

$325.00

B. Hair Dresser 

a. Color, Cut and Set

$90.00

$250.00

C. Special Care of autopsied remains for embalmed & non-embalmed

$225.00

D. Adjustments of remains when received from another funeral home

$200.00

E. Alternative Care - for religious or other reasons embalming is declined, State Statute HSS 136.04 requires a licensed embalmer to perform alternative sanitary care.

$595.00 

F. Refrigeration of unembalmed body held over 48 hrs. (per day)

$25.00

G. Refrigeration and Shelter of remains of embalmed body per day past 72 Hrs (per day)

$50.00

H. Private Family Visitation

$195.00

A. VISITATION: (up to 4 hours) in our chapel or other local facility/$250per hour after

$100.00

B. FUNERAL CEREMONY: In our chapel or other local facility

$570.00

C. MEMORIAL SERVICE: (Ceremony without remains present) in our chapel or other facility.

$570.00

D. GRAVESIDE SERVICE: Local graveside 

E. RECEPTION AREA USE

F.  USE OF FACILITY for private service; includes limited services of funeral director & staff

G. Weekend/Holiday Service/Overtime after 4:00PM weekday service

H. Additional staff for removal, per person

$375.00

$1095.00

$225.00

$150.00

AUTOMOTIVE EQUIPMENT

($1.95 per mile/roundtrip - beyond 10 miles radius of Appleton)

SERVICE RELATED PRODUCTS AND MERCHANDISE

MISC. PRODUCTS, SERVICeS AND MERCHANDISE

FORWARDING OF REMAINS TO ANOTHER FUNERAL HOME

$2,195.00 plus mileage

Includes basic services of funeral director and staff, the removal of the deceased from the local place of death, embalming, securing and completing the necessary certificates and permits, temporary care of the remains, use of the preparation room equipment and supplies. This is exclusive of any shipping charges, or any other use of funeral home, i.e. viewing, visitation or ceremony, and any merchandise.

RECEIVING OF REMAINS FROM ANOTHER FUNERAL HOME

$2,195.00 plus mileage

Includes basic services of funeral director and staff, transportation of the casketed decedent to the funeral home, sheltering of the deceased, use of the preparation room, and transportation to a local cemetery. This charge is exclusive of any shipping charges, outer burial container, or any other use of the funeral home, i.e. viewing, visitation or ceremony, and any other merchandise.

DIRECT CREMATION WITH NO CEREMONIES

Our fee for immediate cremation includes local removal of remains to funeral home, limited services of funeral director and staff, temporary shelter of remains (48 hrs.), sanitation and disinfectant, cremation process fee, preparation and filing of required legal permits, and delivery of cremains to local cemetery or family. Additional charges may be accessed when filing for government assisted funerals and cremation services (e.g. cemetery or crematory fees). If you want to arrange an immediate cremation, you can use an alternative container. Alternative containers encase the body and can be made of materials like fiberboard or composition material with or without an outside covering. The alternative container we provide is fiberboard.

SUMMARY OF FUNERAL SERVICES OPTIONS: