Designing Your Memorial
There are few decisions in life as personal as deciding where and how you wish to be permanently memorialized.After all, it is a decision that extends into the lifetimes of your children and grandchildren – where do you wish them to go to honor your memory and share their emotions?
Ground Burial
Deciding on the type of memorial property is a very personal decision. Abbey Funeral Home and Tallahassee Memory Gardens provides a setting where meditation, reflection, remembrance and healing can take place.
Mausoleums
Mausoleums allow for above ground entombment in either community buildings or specially designed family structures. At one time the advantages of mausoleum entombment were available only to royalty, the famed or the very wealthy. Well-known mausoleums include the Taj Mahal, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Egyptian Pyramids. Mausoleum property is now affordable to most everyone.
The mausoleum at Abbey Funeral Home and Tallahassee Memory Gardens is a community mausoleum with crypt spaces and cremation niche sections. Private family mausoleum property is also available. These mausoleums are individually designed, custom-built and personalized to reflect the traditions and values of the individual.
Cremation Options
Cremation niches in the Mausoleum and in the Serenity Columbarium are available. Most families will choose some form of inurnment in order to have a permanent place of memorialization for their loved one.