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Selecting the style of your monument.
Flush Marker
Benefits:
- The cemetery has a consistent appearance.
- Flush markers make it easier to mow grass.
Concerns:
- Lawnmowers may run over flowers, vases, or personal items left at the grave
- Markers overgrow with grass just like a driveway or sidewalk
- You need to be standing over it to read it, making it difficult to find a grave
Bevel Marker
Benefits:
- Above ground and easier to see than flush markers
- Slight slope to top makes it easier to read and will stay clean longer than a flat marker
- If 8” or taller they can be cored to receive cremated remains
Concerns:
- You still need to be within 5 to 10 feet to read the marker making it hard to find.
Slant on Base
Benefits:
- Larger design area allows for more information and bigger letters
- Can be read from a greater distance. Stays much cleaner than flush or bevel markers
- A Veteran’s bronze service plaque can be attached to the back
- By adding a base (as shown on left) you get extra height for visibility and lawnmower protection
- A base at least 8″ in height can be cored to receive cremated remains
Concerns:
- While the family name, children’s names, or other information can be placed on the back it may limit the ability of mounting the Veteran’s bronze plaque
- Without a base a lawnmower can chip the lower face if sexton is not careful
Upright Monument
Benefits:
- Easiest to find in the cemetery
- Largest design area available
- Can easily be shaped in a wide variety of custom shapes, like a heart, tear drop, car, horse, etc.
- Stays clean longer than other styles
- Base of monument protects from mower damage
- Can be cored to receive cremated remains
- Can be read from a distance
- Offers lots of room on back for design, lettering and mounting a Veteran’s bronze plaque if family desires
Concerns:
- None
Bench Memorial
Benefits:
- Provide a place for people to sit and find solace while visiting cemetery
- Unique style and shape makes memorial easier to find among traditional memorials
- Some styles of benches can be cored to receive cremated remains like the one pictured above
Concerns:
- Depending on type and size of bench it may not be as easy to read the lettering
- A bench may limit the size of design and amount of information that can be placed on it
Cremation Monument
Benefits:
- Permanently houses cremains in a sealed, dry, above ground natural unit
- Allows grave space to be used for standard interment
- Provides a permanent, historical, remembrance spot
Concerns:
- Cemetery regulations may dictate use and determine how many cremains may be placed in memorial
