Fort Howard Burial Options

Upright Monument - choices allow families to proudly display their memorialization with granite monuments. Monuments enable families to design unique, permanent displays which can be found year round and which express the type of person they are through many different granite colors, shapes and inscriptions.


Companion Estates - these upright monuments provide uniformity and consistency throughout an entire section. They eliminate the need for a monument base and rest on a concrete row which extends across the entire area.

	Heritage Sections - historic sections exist throughout the entire cemetery. Although available space is limited in these areas, inventory does become available when old pathways are filled in and platted to allow for more space. (left, historic Masonic section)

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Garden of Serenity - The Garden of Serenity is a tranquil, private section which allows families, large or small, to create intimate garden areas that feel like their own. Personalized, exclusive monuments are encouraged to allow for a setting that feels like an artwork filled garden.

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Private Estate Buildings - An exquisite way to permanently express a life well lived, these buildings are custom built for any size family estate. Our architects can work with you to come up with the ultimate way to leave a legacy for many generations. Buildings can be designed with interior areas for the ultimate in privacy to remember and be remembered.

Mausoleum Entombment - Beautiful interior arrangements inside the Memorial Chapel Building are available. Choices such as exquisite matchbook marble couch crypts, crypts beneath the Sanctuary of Light, within a semiprivate room or in areas throughout the entire building can be reserved for one person or for an entire family. Exterior garden arrangements allow simplicity with arrangement selections, price and location.

Memorial Chapel Memorial Chapel

Exterior Arrangements

exterior crypts

Sanctuary of Light

mausoleum interior

Cremation: Often, when the choice is cremation, the perception is that the cremation process is the final step in the process. This does not need to be the case; when cremation is chosen, a final, permanent resting place allows for the life to be memorialized for immediate family as well as future generations. This permanency is the pillar of memories, communities and recognizing the significance for the individual's life as it was lived.
	Interior glass or bronze front niches - Located in various areas throughout the Memorial Chapel building, these areas allow a prominent display of creative urns which can reflect individual personalities. The niches accommodate personal mementos which can be memorabilia. Fort Howard offers a large variety of cremation urns, including artwork urns, to fit within the niches.



Granite front niches - Located on both the interior and exterior of the mausoleum building, granite front niches offer a secure and dignified way to permanently place an urn within a beautiful building. These niches can be personalized with bronze photo emblems and/or floral remembrances.

	Granite cremation benches or memorial rocks - these memorials can be added to many different areas of the cemetery (with management approval) as a way to add burial options or to enhance areas where traditional burials cannot be performed. Cored holes are integrated into the granite, allowing a concealed area for cremated remains to be permanently placed.

Inurnment within traditional grave space - regular spaces throughout the entire park can be used for burial of cremated remains. Standard memorials can be installed just as they would be for traditional ground burial. Fort Howard allows two cremated remains to be inurned within one standard space.

Community Columbarium - a premium area within the Memorial Chapel building has converted regular crypt space into an economic choice for permanent cremation entombment. Multiple names are memorialized on a custom cast bronze front. top of page