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Pre-Need Funeral Arrangements in California

260 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements in California, listed by city and county. Each listing names the services the home offers, the faiths it serves and the languages its staff speak, with its address, its phone and a link to its general price list where it posts one.

All States1593Alabama119Alaska7Arizona23Arkansas114California260Colorado105Connecticut77District of Columbia5Florida365Georgia147Hawaii8Indiana172Iowa151Nevada40
All of California260Alameda County9Amador County1Butte County5Calaveras County1Contra Costa County9El Dorado County4Fresno6Glenn County1Humboldt County3Imperial County3Kern County7Lake County1Lassen County1Los Angeles50Marin County1Mendocino County1Merced1Monterey County4Nevada County1Orange County12Placer County4Plumas County4Riverside17Sacramento13San Benito County2San Bernardino15San Diego16San Francisco2San Joaquin County7San Luis Obispo6San Mateo County10Santa Barbara5Santa Clara County7Santa Cruz4Shasta County3Solano County3Sonoma County2Stanislaus County2Tehama County2Tulare County4Ventura County9Yuba County2
All servicesBurial295Cremation459Green burial26Pre-need arrangements260Veterans services113Out-of-state and international transport126Human composting3Water cremation (aquamation)12
Any faithJewish15Catholic15Christian5Muslim11Buddhist9Hindu6Sikh4Jain1Latter-day Saints2
Any languageSpanish77Vietnamese4Chinese5Korean4Tagalog3Russian1Armenian1Arabic2Persian2German3

Licence rows come from the California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau (Department of Consumer Affairs); what a home offers comes from its own site. SimplyTrust lists no prices, no reviews and no rankings, and does not endorse any home. Contact a home directly for its general price list, which the Funeral Rule requires it to provide.

260 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements in California

Hollywood Funeral Home

6000 Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90038

Hollywood Funeral Home offers cremation, funeral, mortuary and burial services on one cemetery campus in Hollywood, with its crematory onsite. Its funeral directors make arrangements and perform services in Spanish, Thai, Russian, Hindi and Armenian, and it offers traditional services for Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and Hindu faiths.

Christian funeralsJewish funeralsBuddhist funeralsHindu funeralsSpanish spoken+6

Lakewood Funeral Home

900 Santa Fe Ave, Hughson, CA 95326

In Hughson, this funeral home was built in 1982 on the Lakewood Memorial Park cemetery property and offers an on-site crematory, 2 funeral chapels and burial options including a columbarium and mausoleums. It serves communities along the Tuolumne River in Stanislaus County and helps people pre-plan funerals.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangements

1-209-883-0411

Lakewood Memorial Park

900 Santa Fe Ave, Hughson, CA 95326

The on-site crematory serves Lakewood Memorial Park and its funeral home in Hughson, alongside 2 funeral chapels and burial options including a columbarium and mausoleums. The park serves communities along the Tuolumne River in Stanislaus County.

CrematoryBurialCremationPre-need arrangements

1-209-883-0411

Arlington Cremation Services

16152 Beach Blvd Suite 105, Huntington Beach, CA 92647

Founded in 1993, Arlington Cremation Services in Huntington Beach arranges cremation, burials and memorial services; the company operates its own crematorium with a witnessing room. Pre-arrangement services are free, and staff are available 24 hours a day.

CremationPre-need arrangementsBurial

1-844-267-5888

Heritage-Dilday Memorial Services

17911 Beach Blvd, Huntington Beach, CA 92647

In Huntington Beach, this funeral home carries on Dilday Brothers Funeral Directors, which has served the City of Huntington Beach and Orange County for more than 30 years. Its funeral directors help families at the time of need and with prearrangements, by appointment.

Pre-need arrangements

1-714-842-7771

Frye Chapel Mortuary & Crematory

338 Aten Road, Imperial, CA 92251

The Imperial location of a family-owned and operated mortuary and crematory with over 60 years of service in the Imperial Valley. It offers pre-need, at-need and cremation services, and arranges transfers to Mexicali for burial through the Mexican Consulate.

CremationPre-need arrangementsOut-of-state and international transport

1-760-797-1414

Forest Lawn Memorial-Park & Mortuaries

82975 Requa Avenue, Indio, CA 92201

In Indio, Forest Lawn keeps the business center for its three Coachella Valley locations on Requa Avenue. The team offers cremation, traditional burial services and pre-planning, with meetings at home or at its locations.

CremationBurialPre-need arrangements

1-760-321-6400

Exquisite Family Mortuary

2617 West Manchester Boulevard, Inglewood, CA 90305

In Inglewood, this family owned mortuary has served the community since 2011 with burial, cremation and pre-arrangement services. It works through its Private Family Care Center by telephone, virtually or by scheduled appointment, with telephone assistance 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Walk-ins are not available.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangements

1-323-753-0788

Grace Memorial Chapel And Funeral Home

3443 W Manchester Blvd, Inglewood, CA 90305

In Inglewood, this independently owned funeral home serves Los Angeles County and many surrounding areas. It helps families plan veterans' funeral and memorial services and preneed arrangements, and it can live stream and record services.

Pre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-323-752-2028

Daneri Mortuary

415 Broadway, Jackson, CA 95642

In Jackson, this mortuary serves families in Amador County and the Sierra Nevada foothills with burial, cremation, funeral and memorial services and pre-need planning. Established in 1902, it has a chapel and private viewing space. It operates no on-site cemetery or crematory and arranges human composting through a partner provider.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangements

Joshua Tree Memorial Park

60121 Twenty-Nine Palms Highway, Joshua Tree, CA 92252

In Joshua Tree, this memorial park has served the High Desert communities since 1968 with traditional cemetery gardens, natural green burial, a mausoleum, scattering gardens and urn gardens. Its natural burial sections sit in open desert and graves are hand dug. There is no mortuary on site, so funeral home arrangements are made with an outside provider.

CrematoryBurialGreen burialPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-760-366-9210

Crippen Mortuary

2900 Honolulu Ave, La Crescenta, CA 91214

This independent, family-owned mortuary has operated at its present location in La Crescenta since 1928. It offers burial and cremation services, prepaid pre-arrangements and veterans' services, and ships remains to another state or country.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans servicesOut-of-state and international transport

1-818-249-6131

After Cremation Ca1, Inc.

999 Corporate Drive Suite 100, Ladera Ranch, CA 92694

Based in Ladera Ranch, this licensed California office arranges direct cremation online or by phone, with its care team coordinating transportation, permits, death certificates and the return of remains. Arrangements can also be preplanned online.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-844-905-2639

Evans Brown Mortuary

126 E Graham Ave, Lake Elsinore, CA 92530

This Evans-Brown Mortuary location in Lake Elsinore serves nearby places including Canyon Lake, Wildomar, Murrieta, Temecula, Corona and Norco.

Pre-need arrangements

1-951-674-3141

Lake Isabella Valley Mortuary

5108 Lake Isabelle Blvd, Lake Isabella, CA 93240

A family owned funeral home in Lake Isabella serving Kern County and the Kern River Valley. It provides burial services, memorial services, cremations and pre-need arrangements, and has performed interments at Bakersfield National Cemetery.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-760-379-5829

Chapel Of The Lakes Mortuary

1625 High St, Lakeport, CA 95453

A family-owned funeral home in Lakeport serving Lake County since 1977, offering burial, cremation and help applying for veterans benefits. It receives remains from other states and forwards them to other states or countries, including Mexico.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangementsVeterans servicesOut-of-state and international transport

1-707-263-0357

Golden State Cremation And Funeral Services

8601 Hall Road, Lamont, CA 93241

In Lamont, this home arranges direct cremation in its own private crematory and helps with funeral services, burial, pre-arrangements and veterans benefits for families across Kern County. Paperwork can be walked through in Spanish.

Spanish spokenCremationBurialPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-661-484-1773

Family Memorial Services Mortuary

1008 W Ave J10, Lancaster, CA 93534

In Lancaster, this mortuary sets out traditional burial packages and cremation packages on its services page, with visitation and services at its own facility. Its staff can make arrangements at the office or in the family's home, and it sends one year of daily grief support emails to the families it serves.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangements

1-661-494-8306

Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home

14165 N Beckman Rd, Lodi, CA 95240

In Lodi, this cemetery and funeral home offers ground burial and cremation, with a crematory located on-site, and planning ahead before the need arises. It is a non-profit serving the San Joaquin Valley since 1940.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangements

1-209-334-9613

Cherokee Memorial Park

14165 N Beckman Road, Lodi, CA 95240

At its memorial park in Lodi, Cherokee Memorial operates a crematory located on-site and has offered cremations since 1951. Cremated remains may be placed in its cremation gardens, mausoleums or streamside scattering garden.

CrematoryCremationPre-need arrangements

1-209-334-9613
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