Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries

Forest Lawn has over 100 years of trusted service in cemetery, funeral and cremation needs. They offer all-in-one convenience with churches, chapels, visitation rooms, reception rooms, cemetery properties, crematories and flower shops in one place. Exceptional facilities for services and world-class cemetery properties are available.

Planning ahead ensures your family honors your final wishes, reduces family disagreements, makes the service personal to your story, guarantees pricing, reduces stress for loved ones, and allows time for proper consideration of decisions without the burden of over 100 decisions in 48 hours.

Packages vary by budget and may include graveside service, casket, service at church or chapel, embalming, visitation, memory folders, floral tribute, care and preparation, transportation, cemetery burial services, and personalized tablet.

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

In-person meetings with Memorial Counselors enable exemplary service, accurate document completion, and thorough review of product and service options. Phone arrangements available for out-of-state residents at one of 9 mortuary locations in Los Angeles, Orange or Riverside Counties.

The arrangement meeting usually takes around 2.5 hours to properly provide time and fully discuss final wishes, gather vital information, and review traditional and cremation packages with personalization options and cemetery property selections.

Decisions include cremation or traditional burial, flowers, music, caskets, urns, final resting place, property and personalization options, flower selections, service scheduling, visitation or prayer service, and legal paperwork.

Upon arrival, you will be greeted by Guest Services representatives, offered light refreshments, guided to an arrangement room, and meet your Memorial Counselor who will arrange all details to create an appropriate remembrance.

Mortuary services include bringing loved one into care, embalming, dressing, casketing, accompanying decedent to services, and supervising final placement. Cemetery services include opening burial space (ground, crypt, niche), placing casket or urn into vault/crypt/niche, recording burial, and placing personalized tablet.

Forest Lawn offers beautiful chapels and spacious reception rooms in parks. Families can choose from Forest Lawn clergy, their own clergy, or specially trained celebrants who create unique eulogies. Services can also be arranged at your own place of worship with Forest Lawn coordination.

Options include permanent resting places in parks with vistas and natural beauty, mausoleums, private or semi-private gardens, wall crypts, and distinguished memorials. Memorial Counselors help find an appropriate final resting place.

Yes, Forest Lawn offers a full assortment of funeral and cremation products and services including four funeral packages and two cremation packages, each including casket or urn with generous discount.