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Our services
We provide a wide range of professional services to meet your needs. We promise to provide every service with respect, diligence and to your highest level of satisfaction.
Graveside Service
Graveside services are held exclusively at the graveside. Friends and family meet directly at the cemetery, usually a half-hour before the appointed service time. At our National Cemeteries, everyone should gather at the cemetery office 30 minutes prior to the service.
A graveside service includes all the same elements as those at a chapel or religious facility. A graveside service is no less dignified than any other service location.
Families often like the convenience, simplicity, and intimacy of a graveside service.
Temple/Synagogue Service
Many families feel that a funeral service at the temple/synagogue for their family member is very personal and comforting. This is a spiritual home where many joyous and meaningful life cycle events have taken place.
The funeral service is followed by burial at the cemetery with a committal service and interment.
Temple Partnership Program
Heritage Funeral Care has partnered with several area temples and synagogues to enable funeral services to take place in North and South Pinellas County. Please contact Heritage for a list of facilities available.
Traditional Services
Whether you choose burial or cremation, a funeral service is an important part of honoring your loved one and starting the healing process. We offer service options that are meaningful and affordable.
Cremation Services
Cremation is discouraged by traditional Jewish ritual. However, we accommodate non-traditional families that opt for cremation. We offer different cremation options, from a direct cremation with no service or a funeral or memorial service at variety of locations. Having a service allows the opportunity to memorialize a loved one, as well as receive condolences and support from friends and family. A service can be officiated by clergy or someone chosen by the family.
After the cremation process is completed, there are final disposition options:
Family possession
Burial or Entombment at a cemetery
Full scattering or partial scattering
If a burial at a cemetery is chosen, we can help arrange for the burial. Otherwise the cremains will be returned to the family in either a minimal container provided by the crematory or you may purchase an urn which is a final container that protects the remains. It is designed to be a permanent container for possession, burial, or to hold cremains until the time of scattering.
Scattering or partial scattering is final and irreversible. For this reason, careful consideration is suggested.
Out of State Arrangements
Heritage Funeral Care is well acquainted with domestic and international shipping. We also handle arrangements for burial in Israel. When a loved one dies out of the state we recommend calling Heritage Funeral Care first. We have found that it eases the family burden to work with one funeral home and is more cost effective. We will take care of all the details for transportation back to Florida with our out of state affiliates.
Inter-Faith Families
Heritage Funeral Care recognizes that we can not achieve our mission, of honoring the deceased and comforting mourners, without reaching out to interfaith families.
Our local Jewish cemeteries accommodate interfaith families, and have accommodations for graves where interfaith couples can be buried side by side. Heritage Funeral Care is experienced at assisting inter-faith families fulfill the needs of the living, while honoring the deceased, by planning either traditional or non-traditional services. In this way we do our best to make sure that this is a meaningful experience of comfort, compassion, and respect.
Advanced planning for inter-faith families often helps eliminate confusion as well as having a better understanding of one's wishes. For more information or inquiries about local interfaith sections, please contact us.
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