Rogan's Memorials

Most of us feel great comfort when we visit a loved one's final resting place. We can plant flowers, trace the engravings on a monument, speak aloud our thoughts, our worries, and our hopes. It is the perpetual memory of a life too short—and it will be there long after we and our children and our children's children are gone.

Why You Need to Plan Ahead:

Options are growing and changing, but basic choices include selecting a cemetery, purchasing a burial plot, deciding on a gravestone, and designing that gravestone. It's a matter of forever. What do you want forever to say about you? A solid preplan will include such eternal decisions. Without a preplan in place, choosing a burial spot and a monument become the responsibility of your loved ones, and they will be overwhelmed with all the decisions you didn't make. Preplan now.

A funeral home director once told us that the first question he asks is, "Does the deceased have a cemetery lot"? This one question gives many answers to how far one has preplanned.

Ahead of Your Time contains a valuable glossary of definitions for the following:

• Grave Marker
• Lawn Crypt
• Mausoleum
• Monument
• Sexton
• Sandblasting
• …and many more.

Our invaluable database will help you find local monument dealers who can help you decide where to find a cemetery, and help you choose your final resting spot.

Something to think about: remember that a monument really isn't for us—it’s for the family when we pass. Everybody needs a place to go to sit and be with the one they love.

We are in the process of building a comprehensive end-of-life planning database. Check back soon or e-mail us for details.