We conduct services for all faiths, and offer over 750 professional music selections for play during our services.  While many options are available to personalize your funeral, following is a list of :

Services included in our Alternative Package

Professional personnel and staff services' advance preparation and readiness to serve.  A staff member is on duty 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to respond to your call and make removal of the deceased from the place of death, in the local area, to the funeral home.

Preparation and preservation of the body, including: disinfecting, bathing, posing of features, standard embalming, shampoo and manicure.  Tissue restoration or reduction and other restorative treatment treatment requiring not more than one hour, including time and material (reasonable charges for restoration over one hour); cosmetics; general and final grooming; dressing and positioning in casket, and arrange for visitation.  The services of a lady attendant as required during the services.

Complete Data: certificates, permits, records, newspaper, and radio.  Report funeral arrangements to daily and weekly newspapers.  Complete death certificate and get physician's certification.   File death certificate with the Division of Vital Statistics.  Procure and file burial permit or file transit permit.  Record information on permanent records for future use.  Secure certified copies of the death certificate for the family (plus charges of public officials for issuing certified copies).

Assist families in: filing claim forms with agencies such as: insurance companies, burial fund, United Mine Workers, Veterans Administration, Workmen's Compensation Fund, Social Security; change car title and registration, etc., (at time of arrangements or later); notary service.

Furnish: Home Record Book; furnish and record information in memorial book; furnish and print memorial service folders; furnish acknowledgment cards and envelopes for mailing; mark grave with temporary grave marker when permanent marker is not yet installed.

Counsel family regarding all arrangements including: services, merchandise available, cost, clergy, musicians, pallbearers, grave preparation (digging of grave), cemetery space, etc.  Consult clergy regarding services, contact musicians or furnish music and or vocal tapes.   Contact pallbearers by phone, locally, when requested.

Care and custody of body: from first call to interment.  Staff member on duty 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to take calls and answer calls of relatives and friends regarding funeral arrangements and other pertinent matters.  Staff members on duty during visiting hours to receive friends and answer all pertinent questions.  Funeral Director and assistants on duty constantly to assure proper arrangement and direction of funeral in our chapel, your church, or other place in the local area.  This includes: parking of autos, arranging funeral procession, seating of relatives, family, pallbearers, etc.; the interment at the cemetery; removal of floral cards to present to the family.  Staff personnel to transport flowers to the cemetery and arrange them in advance of the funeral procession.   Staff personnel to transport floral pieces, register book, and other pertinent items to the family home after the services have been completed.

Funeral home facilities: comfortable and private consultation room; modern preparation room with necessary supplies and equipment for proper, professional care of the body; visitation/viewing area; family room; lounges; restrooms; telephone for local use the afternoon, evening before, and morning of the funeral service; coffee or cold drink area.  For the day of the funeral:  Chapel for services or transfer of necessary equipment to the church or other local area for services, where desired; family room, rest areas, and parlors; necessary equipment furnished, including: casket carriage, floral stands and racks, register stand, lighting, reserve seating and parking signs, public address system, library of organ and vocal music, tribute program and other necessary equipment for the conducting of the funeral services.

Motor equipment: for first call for removal of body to the funeral home; sedan for funeral arrangements for the Funeral Director to use on behalf of the family, such as checking the cemetery site, death certificates, burial permits, newspaper reports, and other errands the family may request.   A large sedan for the family to be picked up at their home on the day of the services and returned home after the graveside services ( this sedan is available upon request).  A flower car, when needed, to transport floral arrangements to the cemetery and the family home following services.  A sedan used by the funeral director to lead the funeral procession and to transport the minister to and from the place of burial.  A funeral coach for the casketed body from the place of the service to the place of burial. 

Folding chairs are available from the funeral home for use at the family home for extra seating.  In addition, we have a portable 30" x 63" fold-away table to be used for additional seating and/or food.

Other options may be added to the above items for the funeral goods and services you choose.  The Hadley family has been helping families at their time of need since 1938.  Call for an appointment or stop in during normal business hours and any of our professional, well-trained staff will be happy to discuss these and other options available to you.