Additional Funeral Costs to Consider

  • Funeral merchandise; (caskets/ urns) we offer a variety of first class products that are competetively priced.
  • Cemetery costs; lot, grave digging, and outer burial container (if required)
  • Food
  • Obituary (online is free on our website / cost can vary greatly depending on newspaper)
  • Flowers
  • Honorarium for clergy: $200 minimum recommended
  • Honorarium for soloists / pianists / organists / musicians – $150 recommended per performer
  • Paper goods: guest book, memorial folders, “thank you” cards, etc.
  • Coroner or Medical Examiner Fee for cremation (St. Louis Co., MN = $50, Douglas Co., WI = $150)
  • Death certificates (MN = $13 for 1st, $6/ea. additional. ; WI = $20 for 1st, $3/ea. additional)