No matter what you choose…..
… cremation is simply a form of final disposition. It’s the other things you do that determine whether a final tribute is meaningful, healing, personalized, and exactly what your family needs to grieve.
Cremation Services
- Selecting cremation does not limit your family's options. When selecting Flynn's all services that are offered with traditional burial are also available when selecting cremation. This includes going to our own free-standing crematory to witness the beginning of the cremation process if that is what your family desires.
Cremation Pricing
Flynn Funeral & Cremation Memorial Centers is the oldest family-owned and operated funeral home and cremation center in Orange County. We are the only firm that operates a free-standing crematory facility, ensuring your loved one remains in our care and supervision throughout the entire process. Yes, you are more than welcome to visit the crematory, and if a funeral home tells you otherwise, please consider finding another funeral home.
Other Funeral Homes will deliver your loved one to a crematory facility outside the area or even the State of New York. They cannot tell you when the cremation will take place or who will be cremating the body. We suggest purchasing an urn from Walmart, where the selection is extensive and their buying power surpasses that of any other firm in the area.
We are not corporate owned, so we answer to our families, not stockholders. Call us to schedule a tour of our facilities or a meeting to discuss your options and learn what it's genuinely like to care by a firm that actually cares about families.
Free-Standing Crematory
- As the Hudson Valley's only Funeral Home to own and operate our own crematory we truly are the only cremation specialist in Orange County.
- The protocol developed by the Flynn family became the standard operation method when Edward J. Hand, the Senior Investigator for the New York State Department of State, Division of Cemeteries, created the position paper on correct crematory procedures. These procedures are the Gold Standard of the Cremation Field in the United States, as led by the Division of Cemeteries today.
Additional Customization:
Why is it important to have a meaningful, healing, and personalized funeral service?
Meaningful - When something has meaning, it has deeper purpose, deeper poignancy. By intentionally creating a meaningful service, you allow mourners - family, friends, neighbors - to say goodbye in a way that will help them heal and bring peace and comfort for years to come.
Healing - After the death of someone loved, you will experience feelings of grief. These emotions look different from person to person (sadness, anger, guilt, regret, shock, disbelief), but a meaningful service can help bring healing and comfort to a hurting heart.
Personalized - Above all, it’s essential to personalize a funeral service. Without personalization, you cannot create meaning or facilitate healing. Without personalization, you get a cookie-cutter experience instead of a one-of-a-kind final tribute.
Together, all three - meaningful, healing, and personalized - come together to create a truly unique funeral experience that will heal hurts, touch hearts, and help you say goodbye to a truly special and irreplaceable person.
Flynn Funeral & Cremation Memorial Centers, Inc. The only Funeral Home to establish its own Crematory. Your loved one never leaves our care and supervision.
How to Plan a Celebration of Life
It's a process of asking–and answering–questions. Sit down with other family members, at least once—but maybe even more than once—to explore the celebration of life ideas that arise from answering these questions:
Let Us Help with the Celebration of Life
We know that's a lot to think about. But we urge you to take your time; be thoughtful, and don't hesitate to explore all the celebrations of life ideas which arise as part of this experience.
As we've said, we've got the experience to help make things easier for you and your family. Don't hesitate to pick up the phone and call us. Let's talk about your loved one's life; share some stories with us. We're confident that, together, we can come up with the perfect celebration of life event to suit your needs and expectations.
Funeral Services Just as Unique as the Life Lived
We can create a customized online memorial for you to share with family and friends. The monument includes pictures and home movies that help reflect the life lived. We offer a full catering center at our locations and dove, butterfly, and balloon releases as examples of unique, heartfelt gestures for the services. It will serve as a place for visitors to post condolences, share memories, upload photos, and light candles to honor your loved one. We can also broadcast the services anywhere in the world.
Flynn Family Sincere Service Guarantee - We will offer suggestions for saving money from the first meeting to the last handshake. We will work with you and your family to arrange a meaningful service that does not take a lifetime to pay off, with traditional overpriced merchandise and old-fashioned funeral home business models that other area funeral homes employ.
Funeral Fund Donations - We realize the expense of a funeral can be a burden. We allow friends and family to make monetary donations to help cover funeral costs. These gifts can be made quickly and securely online through our website and are paid directly to the funeral home on behalf of the donor.
Tribute Video - We can produce a personal tribute video that can be played at the service and online. Provide us with the photographs and music selections you want to include, and we will transform them into a video celebration of your treasured memories. DVDs or digital files of the video are also available.