Cremation with Service- $4,295
The Basic Service Fee includes gathering, 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 time of arrangement conference.
- Full use of our staff and facilities for a chapel service of remembrance
- Monday thru Friday during regular business hours (Weekends available for additional fee)
- Beautiful hardwood tray for viewing, with fiberboard cremation insert for cremation
- The return of cremated remains will be expedited pending final approvals
- Your choice of any urn up to a credit of $250 from our selection catalog
Dignified Cremation- $3,795
The Basic Service Fee includes gathering, 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 time of arrangement conference
- Use of our parlor for a private viewing for up to 10 immediate family members for 45 minutes Monday thru Friday during regular business hours
- (weekends available for additional fee)
- Beautiful hardwood tray for viewing, with fiberboard cremation insert for cremation
- The return of cremated remains will be expedited pending final approvals
- Your choice of any urn up to a credit of $250 from our selection catalog
Direct Cremation: $2,995
The Discounted Basic Service Fee includes gathering, filing, and retrieving requested copies of death certificate and with placing obituaries. This package also includes local transportation, refrigeration, and crematory fee.
Payment is expected at the time of arrangement conference
- ID view may include up to 5 immediate family members and take place roughly 15 minutes prior to cremation
- Cardboard cremation container
- Cremated remains will be returned within 7 days of receiving final cremation approvals
- Your choice of any urn up to a credit of $150 from our selection catalog
“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.
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 and a 1-year OTJ training state internship.
- 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, meet with families to gather info for death certificate, help with obituaries, help plan meaningful funerals, viewings, visitations, receptions, help file life insurance, and help with veteran survivor benefits. We help families and other survivors heal via offering various ways to gather with each other and with friends. Ceremonies help begin the healing process.
DIRECT DISPOSERS
Education:
- 1 semester containing 2 classes: Mortuary Law, Ethics.
- Renew every 2 years.
- Requires 7 CEUs, including 1 communicable disease course.
Services:
Very limited to only cremation.
(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.
