Products
An ornamental rectangular box with four sides that is made of wood or metal and hold the body of the deceased for viewing during a visitation and/or funeral service.
Casket
Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
AOP
To place human remains in the ground, most often as part of a gravesite.
Internment
Grave space, a specific, measured piece of land intended for burial.
Plot
A memorial stone, often made of granite, that marks the head of the grave.
Headstone
A Vessel that is typically an ornamental vase on a pedestal and is used for storing the cremated remains of the deceased.
Urn
Good Faith Estimate
GFE
Putting a deceased body into a tomb (also known as internment)
Entombment
Subdivisions within a section or garden that typically contains small clusters of individual grave spaces.
Lots
A service held to memorialize a deceased person but the body isn't present.
Memorial Service
A lined and sealed concrete receptacle designed to protect the casket from outside elements.
Burial Vault
Book Of Business
BOB
Typically the placing of an urn with cremated remains into a niche, or burying an urn and an urn vault into a grave.
Inurnment
Building or above ground structure where a persons body is placed after death.
Mausoleum
The VA furnishes a government headstone or marker upon request for and deceased veteran free of charge in any cemetery.
VA Markers