CREMATION SERVICES
Cremation Services Made Simple and Respectful
In recent years, more families are choosing cremation, yet it remains a time-honored practice carried out with respect and care. At Wages & Sons Funeral Homes & Crematories, your loved one always stays in our care, as we operate our own cremation facilities.

Cremation does not limit the ways you can honor a life—it often provides even more flexibility for memorial services. The process is handled with dignity, and there are many meaningful ways to commemorate your loved one.
We understand that every family is unique, and we aim to create services that truly reflect the life being celebrated. From traditional funerals to personalized ceremonies that highlight a loved one’s interests and passions, we offer a wide range of options to meet your family’s wishes.
By providing meaningful and individualized memorial choices, we help families craft tributes that honor a unique life while offering comfort to friends and loved ones.
You and your family are at the heart of the process, and the decisions you make help shape a service that is personally significant and memorable.
Personalized Resting Place Choices with Care
We also provide guidance on options for a final resting place, whether that includes scattering, burial, or placement in a cemetery or columbarium. No matter what you choose, our goal is to help you create a thoughtful tribute that reflects your loved one’s life, values, and the memories you hold dear.
Traditional Funeral Service followed by Cremation
Many families find meaning and beauty in a traditional funeral service. With a traditional service combined with cremation, you can still choose to have a final viewing, visitation or wake, and a funeral service. However, instead of in-ground burial, the funeral will be followed by cremation. Depending on your wishes, the cremated remains may be either returned to your family for storage in an urn, scattered, or interred in a columbarium. This option will include fees for the funeral services as well as the fees associated with the cremation itself.
Memorial Service
The memorial service can be held in our chapel, a church, or any other venue the family chooses. We work with our families to design a service that honors their loved one with stories, music, or scripture. We also have life celebrants who lead services where clergy may not be chosen. Our celebrants are trained in creating experiences that help start the healing process.
Graveside Service
A graveside or committal service is typically held immediately following the funeral service, but it can also be a small, intimate gathering of those closest to you.
Permanent Memorialization
Keeping an Urn at Home
This is a common choice. Families can select the perfect urn for their loved one.
Placing the Urn in a Columbarium (aka, a “niche”)
Many families find comfort in having a final resting place that they can visit.
Burying the Urn
Similar to a casket, the in-ground burial of the urn allows for a final resting place.
Scattering the Cremated Remains
Some families find comfort scattering the cremated remains in a place that was special to their loved one.
