Cremation with Celebration of Life- $4,495
The Basic Service Fee includes gathering vital information, filing, and retrieving requested copies of death certificate, filing for veteran’s death benefits, assisting with filing life insurance claims and with placing obituaries. This package also includes local transportation, refrigeration, and crematory fee.
Payment is expected at the end of the arrangement conference.
- Full use of our staff and facilities for a chapel service of remembrance/celebration of life
- Monday thru Friday during regular business hours (weekends are available for an additional fee)
- Beautiful hardwood tray for viewing, with fiberboard cremation insert for cremation
- The return of cremated remains will be expedited pending final cremation approvals
- Your choice of any urn up to a credit of $250 from our selection catalog
Dignified Cremation- $3,995
The Basic Service Fee includes gathering vital information, filing, and retrieving requested copies of death certificate, filing for veteran’s death benefits, assisting with filing life insurance claims and with placing obituaries. This package also includes local transportation, refrigeration, and crematory fee.
Payment is expected at the end of the arrangement conference.
- Use of our parlor for a private viewing for up to 10 immediate family members for about 45 minutes Monday thru Friday during regular business hours (weekends are available for an additional fee)
- Beautiful hardwood tray for viewing, with fiberboard cremation insert for cremation
- The return of cremated remains will be expedited pending final cremation approvals
- Your choice of any urn up to a credit of $250 from our selection catalog
Simple Cremation- $3,295
The Basic Service Fee includes gathering vital information, filing, and retrieving requested copies of death certificate, filing for veteran’s death benefits, assisting with filing life insurance claims and with placing obituaries. This package also includes local transportation, refrigeration, and crematory fee.
Payment is expected at the end of the arrangement conference.
- Private-family ID viewing may include up to 5 immediate family members and take place for about 15 minutes Monday thru Friday during regular business hours (weekends are available for an additional fee)
- Cardboard cremation container
- Cremated remains will be expedited pending final cremation approvals
- Your choice of any urn up to a credit of $150 from our selection catalog
Direct Cremation- $2,195
The discounted Basic Service Fee includes gathering information for death certificate, filing, retrieving requested copies, applying for flag from VA, and assisting with placing obituaries. This package also includes local transportation, refrigeration, and crematory fee.
Payment is expected at the end of the arrangement conference.
- Requested ID view may take place for 1 immediate family member, once all final cremation approvals have been received and deceased is in Cardboard cremation container, ready for cremation
- Cremated remains will be returned within days of receiving final cremation approvals
“When everyday words and actions are inadequate, the ritual of ceremony provides a needed structure of what to say and do.”
~ Dr. Alan Wolfelt, Grief Counselor and Grief Educator
Why Choose Milam?
Before choosing a funeral home, ask “Is the funeral home independent, and locally owned and operated?” We are proud to be a family owned and operated funeral home. Established in 1926, we are third generation in the Family funeral service. It is very important to choose a funeral home and a funeral director you have faith in. The time surrounding the death of a loved one is difficult, and the most important responsibility of any funeral director should be to have empathy, and make this difficult time a little easier and less stressful. Our licensed professionals are not commission-driven, so every family is treated with the utmost dignity and respect, and with no sales pressure.
Choosing a professional funeral director who handles every family and every request with compassion and understanding may be the most important decision a family has to make. Please read our comparison chart below for FUNERAL SERVICE PROFESSIONALS and DIRECT DISPOSERS.
If you are in immediate need or have a question please call us any time, any day and one of our representatives will be able to assist you.
FUNERAL SERVICE PROFESSIONALS
Education:
- Intense 2 years education for an AS degree, a 1-year state-certified on the job training internship, as well as passing the National Board Exam, then the State Law Exam.
- Renew state license every 2 years.
- Renewal requires 13 CEUs, including 1 communicable disease course.
Services:
Pick up from place of death, refrigerate or embalm, cremate, give families an opportunity to see and spend time with their loved one once more, meet with families to gather information for death certificates, help with obituaries, help file life insurance, and help with veteran survivor benefits. We are generally able to return loved ones’ cremated remains rather quickly, depending on how swiftly the paperwork is processed. We help families and other survivors begin to heal, by offering various ways to gather with each other and with friends, and help plan meaningful events, such as funerals, viewings, visitations, receptions, etc. Ceremonies help begin the healing process.
DIRECT DISPOSERS
Education:
- 1 semester containing 2 classes: Mortuary Law and Ethics.
- Renew license every 2 years.
- Renewal requires 7 CEUs, including 1 communicable disease course.
Services:
Very limited to only picking up from place of death, refrigerate, gathering information for death certificate, and cremation. Because Direct Disposers generally run at a much higher call volume than a funeral home, it may take weeks to return loved ones’ cremated remains. Make sure you ask how long it will take before your loved ones’ cremated remains will be returned.
(F.S. Chapter 497.601)
There can be many reasons why prices vary amongst providers. As a licensed funeral home, we can provide many things that the direct disposer cannot by law offer to you, such as announcements of memorial services in the newspaper, opportunities for family members to gather and say goodbye, as well as professionally conducting memorial services.
Per Florida Statutes, F.S.497.601(2):
Direct disposers or funeral directors functioning as direct disposers may not, in their capacity as direct disposers, sell, conduct, or arrange for burials, funeral services, memorial services, visitations, or viewings; hold themselves out to the public as funeral directors, or use any name, title, or advertisement that may tend to connote that they are funeral directors. These prohibitions shall apply regardless of the fact that such individuals may be licensed as funeral directors.
