|
Our Services
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 bronze marker.
|
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.
>Gravesite Bouquet
Holders1
>Gravesite Bouquet
Holders2
>Gravesite Bouquet
Holders3
|
|
return to menu
|
|
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)
|
|
return to menu
|
|
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:
> THE CRYPT
AND NICHE FLORAL AGREEMENT FORM
|
|
return to services
|
|
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
|
|
return to services
|
|
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
|
|
return to services
|
|
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
|
|
return to services
|
|
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
|
|
return to services
|
|
