A service most often chosen is the traditional funeral that includes pallbearers, visitation, and memorial service. John L. Ziegenhein & Sons Funeral Home will transport the casket to the funeral location and cemetery for a burial or entombment.

This option can cost more than other options being that they consist of many details. There is a wide variety of services that include a casket, flowers, embalming, dressing, room rentals and extra vehicles to transport family members. Cemetery plots or crypt are extra options, but we can help with everything you need.

• Casket selection
• Transfer of the deceased to our funeral home. Call us anytime, day or night. We have staff on duty 24/7 and we can help.
• Dressing, cosmetology and other care of the deceased
• Professional support and administrative staff assistance. We’ve got answers, checklists and information to help.
• Obituary information
• Memory tables, bulletin boards and videos
• Selecting the best fit for a visitation room and/or service
• Utility car
• Special music
• Registry book
• Memorial folders or prayer cards
• Acknowledgment cards

You may want to have a special clergy or another family friend conduct the service. Family members often take part by giving a reading, singing or helping the clergy. It’s all part of celebrating a life well lived and a person well loved.

Just like a funeral service, a memorial service is a time to remember your loved one. This can be held shortly after death or weeks later, with or without an urn present. What’s important is that it creates a time and a place for family and friends to gather together and support one another, share memories and pay their respects. We can hold a memorial service at our funeral home, the final resting place or at your home. 

Direct Burial - You may prefer to have the burial shortly after death. We offer simple containers, and because there is no viewing or visitation, no embalming is required. You choose whether to have a memorial service. Costs include the basic service fee as well as transportation and care of the body, the purchase of a casket or burial container and a cemetery plot or crypt.