Funeral Home Services for the Bereaved

Grief after losing a loved one makes it hard to get through everyday life, much less plan a funeral service. Luckily, funeral homes in Silvis, IL can help you ease the burden of planning a funeral, as most funeral homes have services that can help you through all the steps and arrangements to planning and executing a funeral. Another major way a funeral home can help you is by offering grief support for before, during and after the funeral. 

A funeral home’s main purpose is helping you make arrangements for the deceased. This includes more menial tasks like processing the death certificate as well as more involved services like planning the funeral. You can rely on most funeral home to provide the clear-headed logic you need to stay organized and deal with the legal steps surrounding a death like: 

• Gathering information for the death certificate like full name and address, date and city of birth, marital status, and occupation. 
  
• Recording and collecting documents like account statements, loans and leases, beneficiary information, tax returns, last will, and bill copies to file the death certificate and other legal paperwork. 
  
• Filing the paperwork and certificates. 
  
• Making contact with legal counsel if needed. 

A funeral home’s main job, however, is to help you with the funeral arrangements. The funeral director will sit down with you and discuss the deceased’s final wishes and how best to memorialize his or her life. You may discuss ways to personalize the funeral, from the deceased’s favorite sports team, music or hobbies to his or her special memories or accomplishments. A funeral home can help you arrange funeral details such as choosing and contacting a religious official for the service, finding a cemetery or crematory, sending out Obituary and Death notices, purchasing a casket, vault, urn or headstone, and choosing and buying books, flowers, registries or cards. A good funeral home can even help you better personalize the funeral arrangements by helping you plan and execute unique or memorable extras like dove or butterfly release, monument sales, memorial shirts, customized photos or video presentations, limousine services, and sometimes even burials at sea. 

Finally, the right funeral home can even help you after the funeral is over by giving you access to grief resources and counseling. Funeral homes often have accesses to grief resources such as contact information for support groups and councilors, articles and information on grief and the best ways to deal with it, and more specific help for special grief situations like losing a child or a traumatic loss. 

It’s important to note that not every funeral home offers the same services. Be sure to check with your local funeral home to make sure they offer the services you need. 

Trimble Funeral Home & Crematory is a Silvis, IL funeral home that offers many different kinds of services. We have years of industry experience that we would be happy to put at your disposal in your time of loss. Please give us a call today to learn more about what we can do for you.