Barnesville funeral home founded in 1890 and run by the sixth generation of its founding family, at the foot of Sugarloaf Mountain in Montgomery County's Agricultural Reserve. Serves every community in Montgomery and Frederick counties, holds services in its gathering space or at a family's own church or cemetery, and has a monument division, Sugarloaf Monuments.

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Bethesda funeral home with the only on-premises crematory in Montgomery County, where families may witness part of the cremation. The firm dates to 1854, is in its sixth generation of one family, directs services at Arlington National Cemetery and has its own lot for about 30 cars.

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Gaithersburg funeral home experienced in Catholic services, from a funeral Mass with a priest or deacon to rosary and vigil prayers. Opened in 1988, it serves Germantown, Rockville, Clarksburg, Damascus and nearby towns, and offers in-home visitations and home delivery of ashes.

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Gaithersburg funeral home certified for green burial, established at the turn of the millennium by a U.S. Air Force veteran. It permits visitations without embalming, offers non-toxic embalming fluids or none, and provides biodegradable caskets, urns and shrouds.

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Laytonsville funeral home whose funeral directors are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Rockville funeral service, founded in 2011, that plans funerals held in the family's own church, including the Catholic funeral Mass, with arrangements made in its office suite less than a mile from Gate of Heaven Cemetery. It also arranges pre-planned funerals tied to Medicaid spend-downs.

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