Forest Lawn

Forest Lawn has over 100 years of trusted service. Treatment of loved ones with utmost respect and dignity, caring service is our reason for being. Facilities include churches, chapels, visitation rooms, reception rooms, cemetery properties, crematories and flower shops all in one place. Exceptional facilities for funeral or memorial services with world-class cemetery properties.

Ensures family confidence in honoring final wishes. May reduce disagreements among family and make it personal to you. Service reflects a tribute to life and lasting legacy. Products and services selected at time of pre-planning are guaranteed at time of passing. Reduces stress during grief. Allows clearer thinking for important decisions. Avoids burden of over 100 decisions within first 48 hours of death. Allows you to share final wishes and protect family from additional stress.

Depending on budget, different package types available. May include: Graveside service, Casket, Service at church or chapel, Embalming, Visitation, Memory folders, Floral tribute, Care and preparation, Transportation, Cemetery services like burial, Personalized tablet.

Six cemetery locations, each with distinct personality, beautiful churches, patriotic courtyards, gardens, vistas. Seven mausoleums with beautiful statuaries and stained glass. Variety of memorial properties: ground, crypt, family spaces, beautifully-landscaped single or double properties, private/semi-private gardens, walled courtyards, wide selection of cremation properties including indoor/outdoor, wall/in-ground, granite or glass-front niches, outdoor gardens with rock niches and tree bases.

Over 100 years of trusted service in cemetery, funeral and cremation needs. Loved ones treated with utmost respect and dignity. Work to honor wishes. Emotional support and guidance. Anticipate needs. All-in-one convenience with churches, chapels, visitation rooms, reception rooms, cemetery properties, crematories and flower shops. Exceptional facilities for funeral or memorial services with world-class properties to create lasting family legacy.

In-person meetings with caring and knowledgeable Memorial Counselors provide exemplary service. Better able to guide in accurately completing documents and reviewing product and service options. If unable to come to one of 9 mortuary locations in LA, Orange or Riverside Counties, phone arrangements can be scheduled.

Usually around 2.5 hours to properly give appropriate time to family and fully discuss final wishes. Gather vital information and learn about the life of loved one. Review traditional and cremation packages, personalization options, and cemetery property selections.

Choose between cremation or traditional burial, flowers, music, caskets, urns and final resting place. Guidance through all property and personalization options. Select flowers from expert designers and schedule services, visitation or prayer service. Walk through legal paperwork.

Greeted by Guest Services representatives and offered light refreshments. Guided to arrangement room to meet Memorial Counselor. Memorial Counselor arranges all details to create appropriate remembrance.

Mortuary: where loved one is brought into care prior to funeral or memorial services and final placement. Services include bringing loved one into care, preparations like embalming, dressing and casketing, accompanying to services, supervising final placement. Cemetery: opening burial space (ground, crypt or niche), placing casket or urn into vault/crypt/niche, recording burial, placing meaningful tablet to mark earth or crypt with memorialization.

Many ways to pay memorable tribute. Parks contain beautiful chapels and spacious reception rooms. Can choose from clergy that Forest Lawn works with, your own, or specially trained celebrants who create unique eulogy. If choosing own place of worship, Forest Lawn can help arrange all details.

Permanent resting places in parks with sweeping vistas and natural beauty or inside mausoleums. Six memorial parks offer property options including private or semi-private gardens, wall crypts or distinguished memorials. Memorial Counselor works to find worthy home for loved one.