Costs and Services

Our basic services includes arrangement conference; preparations and filing of necessary certificates and permits; shelter of remains; coordination of service with cemetery, crematory, vault company and others as required. Also included in this charge are overhead expenses.
This fee for our basic services and overhead will be added to the total cost of the funeral arrangements you select. This fee is already included in our charges for direct cremations, immediate burials and forwarding  or receiving remains.

Prayer cards (per 80, additional available) 

Additional charge for customizing for photo

Additional charge for customizing a non-standard poem or prayer

$45

$25

$25

Personalized DVD - first copy (up to 100 photos provided by family. Additional photos - $10 per 20) 

Additional Copy

$50

$10

The pricing for direct cremation includes removal of remains, necessary authorizations, cremations, RI Medical examiner certificate, sanitary care and basic services of the staff. If you want to arrange a direct cremation, you can use an alternative container. Alternative containers encase the body and can be made of materials like fiberboard or composition materials (with or without an outside covering). The containers we provide are unfinished wood boxes and fiberboard boxes.

This charge does not include the use of facilities and staff for any visitation or ceremony, public or private, prior to the viewing.

$1,575-$1,935

The charge for immediate burial includes, Basic Services of Funeral Director and Staff, removal of remains, local transportation to cemetery, and necessary authorizations.

This price does not include the use of facilities and staff for any visitation or ceremony, public or private, prior to burial, pallbearers or any cemetery charges.

$2,275-$3,170

For Rhode Island

Includes services of funeral director and staff, transportation or remains from within RI, preparation of all necessary legal documents and permits, filing death certificate, Social Security notification, fiberboard container for cremation, cremation, basic urn, posting to our website, and delivery to family within seven days.

$1,625

For Massachusetts

Includes services of funeral director and staff, transportation of remains from Massachusetts, preparation of all necessary legal documents and permits, filing death certificate, Social Security notification, fiberboard container for cremation, cremation, basic urn, posting to our website, and delivery to family within seven days.

These fees are not included in the above funeral, burial, and cremation pricing.

Massachusetts Medical Examiner Fee (if death occurred in Massachusetts)

AND

Burial Permit Fee (this charge is for Massachusetts deaths only, and varies by town)

$100

Delivery of cremains to cemetery at our convenience (cemetery charges not included)

$135

Delivery of cremains to a cemetery at a scheduled time

By Appointment only, immediate family may have the opportunity to pay their final respects. Includes preparation of body (not embalming), dressing or draping, use of facilities for one hour

$550

All funeral burial and cremation prices do not include other items such as paid obituaries, clergy fees, musicians, cemetery fees, or certified copies of death.