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This is a brief overview of the options
available at the Rockville Centre Diocesan Cemeteries. Our
staff is always available to assist you. If you’d like
to learn more about your choices, please call the cemetery
office for more information. Only you can decide what is best
for your family.
Lawn Crypts
provide burial space for two in a pre-installed, double depth
concrete chamber. Lawn crypts allow a family to provide for
the majority of their cemetery needs at an affordable package
price: burial space, outer container and lawn-level bronze
memorial with vase. Lawn Crypts are available at Holy Sepulchre
Cemetery and Queen of All Saints Cemetery.
Community Mausoleums
offer a number of options to meet the preferences and budgets
of those families that prefer above ground entombment. The
price of a mausoleum crypt can compare favorably with the
total cost of ground burial. Holy Rood Cemetery, Holy Sepulchre
Cemetery, and Queen of All Saints Cemetery have community
mausoleums.
Private Mausoleums
from local monument companies can be arranged. For additional
information, please contact the cemetery office.
Family Lots
can accommodate either a private family mausoleum or in-ground
burial spaces. Custom landscaping and distinctive memorialization
is available on these larger lots.
Veteran Lots
can accommodate members of US Armed Forces that have been
distinguished with an honorable discharge for in-ground burial
spaces. Custom landscaping and distinctive memorialization
is available on these special lots.
Cremation Urn Burial
Space in Gravesites are specially for families that have family
members choose both cremation and whole remains burial. Cremated
remains may also be inurned in a crypt or placed in a niche
in a community mausoleum.
| Traditional Burial Options are available
at all Diocesan Cemeteries in either monument lots or
shrine graves. Monument lots, varying in grave numbers
are sold as a unit in certain sections of the cemetery
and allow one upright monument to be installed on the
lot. Shrine sections generally have a central shrine or
feature and each grave is memorialized by a lawn-level
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To find out more about Additional Progroms
we offer, Scroll through the below drop-down menu:
| Gravesite
Bouquet Holders |
As you are aware, Catholic Cemeteries
have regulations on the placement of floral decorations
at the gravesites. These restrictions have sometimes
resulted in such situations where families place an improper
or a hazardous style floral containers. It is
important to remember that the cemetery does not permit
glass, ceramic, and pin-style floral containers. These
items can easily break and or create a hazardous condition
for both cemetery worker and visitors.We understand
that families want to place floral tributes for the
deceased.
In recognizing this desire to remember, Catholic Cemeteries
have provided several floral bouquet holders
for placement program at the grave-sites. Some
of the bouquet holders are relatively inexpensive and
are kept in stock at our offices other vases are custom
ordered with a personal memory ring. We are hopeful
these vases will satisfy the visitors’ needs as
well as ensure the safety and aesthetic beauty of the
cemetery as a whole.
The cemetery continues to permit planting in the
specified areas in accordance with the established cemetery
planting and decorating regulations and past practices.
If you are interested in purchasing a floral bouquet
holder for a lot, review the grave-site floral bouquet
holder information. If you have any questions
regarding this program, please call the cemetery office.
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| The
911 Memorial Program |
| A
memorial will be erected in Holy Rood Cemetery to remember
those who died on September 11th and provide their loved
ones with a place of prayer. Their names will be inscribed
on the memorial with permission from their next of kin,
at no cost to the family. If you or someone you know
lost a loved one in this tragedy and you would like
to place their name on this memorial, please obtain
additional information directly from the parish office
or contact the Diocesan Cemetery office at 516-334-7990.
Authorization forms must be returned to the cemetery
office by March 1st in order to have names inscribed
by the dedication date of Memorial Day 2004.
Funding
The Catholic Cemeteries has received many donations
to date in contributions towards the construction of
this memorial. We continue to seek additional contributions
to help defray the cost of the memorial. As part of
the plan of the plaza area, individual black granite
paving stones will be incorporated into the design.
Those families who donate $500.00-1,000.00 will be able
to inscribe a name to be memorialized on the paver stone.
Contact the cemetery office for additional information
on this program.
Download:
> 911 AUTHORIZATION
FORM FOR MEMORIAL (Victim’s family)
> 911 DONATION FORM
(for all)
> 911 STONE
PAVER MEMORIAL FORM (for all) |
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| Mausoleum
Floral Vase Program |
As
you are aware, Catholic Cemeteries have restricted the
placement of floral decoration of crypt fronts. These
restrictions have sometimes resulted in such
situations where families are sticking or taping mementos
on crypt fronts, lighting candles and wedging flowers
in the seams or behind the bronze lettering.
It is important to remember that the marble or granite
will easily stain and discolor and tape of any type will
destroy the polish on the surface.
We understand that families want to celebrate the individuality
of the deceased.
In recognizing this desire to memorialize, Catholic Cemeteries
have designed an optional floral bouquet placement program
for our Chapel and Garden Mausoleums beginning in March
. It is our hope that this program will satisfy the visitors’
needs as well as ensure the safety and aesthetic beauty
of the community mausoleum setting.
A bronze vase, that will house the floral bouquet, will
be attached to the individual interior or exterior crypt
or cremation niche front (where permitted). The vase will
remain the property of the cemetery. The cemetery reserves
the right to exclusively install this vase and replace
the floral arrangement as specified in our floral purchase
agreement. The display of silk and other artificial
flowers will be specially designed for this purpose and
will change on a seasonal basis. This will eliminate the
worry of safety for placement on high level crypts and
niches and ensure timely maintenance.
The cemetery will continue to offer community floral stands
in common areas for flower placement in accordance with
established rules and past practices.
If you are interested in participating in this program,
complete the application indicating your program preference.
Then sign the bottom acknowledging
your understanding and acceptance of this agreement. Return
the form along with your check payable to Catholic Cemeteries.
The cemetery will also require
presentation of the original Certificate of Right of Entombment
for orders placed by someone other than the original owner.
If you have any questions regarding this program, please
call the cemetery office.
Downloads:
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THE CRYPT AND NICHE FLORAL AGREEMENT FORM |
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| Holidays
(Winter and Easter) Decoration Programs |
Catholic
Cemeteries will again offer a holiday decoration program.
For those families who have gravesites, the Christmas
program affords the opportunity to purchase an evergreen
blanket or pillow, while the Easter Program offers a palm
cross for placement on individual graves.
We will continue to decorate the chapels in our mausoleums
with poinsettias at Christmas and lilies at Easter. All
families, especially those who have
entombments in our Crypts, are invited to purchase a plant
in memory of a loved one. The name of the deceased will
be listed in a memorial book placed in
each of the chapels. If you placed an order last year,
or ordered flowers for the Chapels in the past, you will
receive notification through the mail. Otherwise, you
may fill out the coupon below and mail it with your check
as soon as possible.
Downloads:
> WINTER
AND EASTER DECORATION PROGRAM FORM |
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| Mother's
and Father's Day Decoration Program |
The
spring decoration program will again be offered for
Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Live floral
decorations will be available for placement on
gravesites and in the chapels of the community mausoleums.
A beautiful, live potted plant will be placed directly
in the planting area in front or rear of the monument.
For those families who have mausoleum crypts, the
flowers will be placed on stands in the respective chapels.
The name of those remembered will be placed in a Book
of Remembrance at the altar.
They will be placed the week before Mother’s and
Father’s Day, and will remain there through the
week of the holiday itself. Families are invited to
take their plants home prior to their removal by our
staff. If you placed an order last year, or ordered
flowers for the Chapels in the past, you will receive
notification through the mail. Otherwise, you may fill
out the coupon below and mail it with your check as
soon as possible.
Downloads:
> MOTHER'S
AND FATHER'S DECORATION PROGRAM |
| Kiosk
Electronic Memorial Program |
Your
Catholic cemeteries are offering a unique and innovative
concept dedicated to memorializing the life of a loved
one: the Memorial Media kiosk. The simple
touch screen calls up a heartfelt celebration of a loved
one’s life to be experienced whenever family members
visit our cemeteries. The kiosk is programmed to display
your memorial page automatically on the anniversary
of a loved one’s birth and death. The flexibility
of multimedia technology provides
your family with the opportunity to create a uniquely
personal memorial. By including pictures and text, you
can create a perpetual memorial for future generations
to learn about and celebrate your ancestor’s life.
These systems will also display a map showing the precise
location for all those interred or entombed.
Downloads:
> KIOSK MEMORIAL BROCHURE
> KIOSK MEMORIAL
PROGRAM FORM
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| Votive
and Memorial Program |
Catholic
Cemeteries offer a special way to memorialize your loved
ones in our Votive and Memorial Candle Program. To Light
a Candle in Memory of Your Loved One, Select the mausoleum
and candle rack where the memorial candle may be located.
Complete order form, Return to cemetery office with
completed order form and check payable to CATHOLIC CMETERIES.
Downloads:
> CANDLE MEMORIAL
FORM |
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| Stainless
Steel Portrait Memorials |
Remembering
Loved Ones … for generations to come.
Your Photograph can be converted to a Digital Image
and placed on Stainless Steel as a protected memorial
to capture the memory of your loved one for generations
to come.
A Beautiful Memorial Picture reproduction on Stainless
Steel Protective Finish that should not fade is now
available from Catholic Cemeteries for most Crypts and
Niches and for most Cemetery Monuments.
A Fast and Simple Process:
Step #1 – Locate your Original photo.
Step #2 – Discuss and Learn the Options and Cemetery
requirements then Complete the Appropriate Order Form.
Step #3 – Bring the Form, Cemetery Certificate,
Photo, and Payment to the Cemetery Office.
Step #4 – In approximately 6 to 8 weeks (weather
permitting) the cemetery will install your stainless
steel image.
Step #5 – Receive your original photo returned
to you in the mail.
Catholic Cemeteries in conjunction with our memorial
suppliers and our local monument dealers offer state-of-the-art
image transfer technology and the maximum color retention
of stainless steel to ensure beautiful, long lasting
results.
Contact the cemetery office for additional information.
Downloads:
> PORTRAITS FOR CEMETERY
MONUMENTS
> PORTRAITS FOR CRYPTS
AND NICHES
> PORTRAITS FOR
FLUSH MARKERS
> PORTRAITS FOR MONUMENT
DEALER USE ONLY |
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| Professional, Roman Catholic Organizational and Service Recognition |
Catholic Cemeteries is now offering professional and church organization, and service recognition crypt front color portraits that were previously unavailable or too costly to produce as a custom bronze emblem.
Prior to this program, service recognition was limited to the major branches of our military and a select number of civil service occupations. To accommodate the growing number of requests for service recognition, Catholic Cemeteries can now provide a digital representation of this distinguished service (shield or profession logo) in color and install it on the deceased’s crypt front. (Upon submission of artwork, proof of membership or service is required when ordering the portrait).
To learn about this new program, the cost of the color portrait, and the ordering process click on the link in the right side margin or visit one of our Catholic Cemeteries’ offices to learn more details.
Downloads:
> Professional, Organizations and Service Emblems
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