CEMETERY SERVICES
Cemetery Services
Restoration, cleaning, graveside set-up, disinterment, and demolition. Quiet, careful work performed for families across Marksville, Alexandria, and the surrounding cemeteries of central Louisiana.
Concrete Restoration
Concrete restoration
Concrete restoration is the work that prepares a grave or vault for a second lifetime. Old concrete cracks, weathers, and shifts as the soil settles around it — sometimes for decades — and a worn vault or apron cannot be left alone if a family expects to add an interment, return for an unveiling, or simply visit and find the plot intact. Restoration is patient work performed in two phases: removing the failing material, then rebuilding to the original layout or a new one chosen by the family.
For specific work — full demolition of a debilitated grave before rebuilding, or removal of a casket to a holding vault during reconstruction — see Demolition below. For surface restoration of headstones and aprons exposed to weathering, see the work shown under Grave Cleaning. Concrete restoration is often the first phase of a longer project; we walk every site with the family before any work begins.
Grave Cleaning
Grave cleaning
WEATHERED VAULT — BEFORE RESTORATION
BEFORE & AFTER
The work, shown plainly
Grave cleaning is restoration without rebuilding — surface work, weather-damage removal, and selective resurfacing that returns a vault, apron, or marker to readable condition. Some plots have not been visited for a generation; many of the cemeteries we serve hold the families of central Louisiana for a hundred years and longer.
The photograph here shows a vault before the cleaning process. We document each cleaning so the family can see the change — a record that matters when several years may pass between visits.
Graveside Set-Up
Graveside set-up
THE SERVICE
What graveside set-up includes
Graveside set-up is the discreet preparation of a burial site for a family's service. We arrive ahead of the family and return again to remove the equipment afterward. Set-up includes the tent over the grave, the synthetic grass covering, the chairs for immediate family, and the lowering device for the casket — every element a graveside service needs, prepared in advance so the family can focus on saying farewell.
- Includes Tent Over the grave, weather-ready.
- Includes Synthetic Grass Around the grave perimeter.
- Includes Chairs For immediate family.
- Includes Lowering Device For the casket.
Disinterments & Relocating
Disinterments and relocating
DISINTERMENTS
When a family asks us to relocate
Disinterments are conducted for a couple of different reasons. Most often, the purpose is to relocate the body, casket, or vault to a different location. This may be within the same cemetery or another. Reasons are usually at the request of the family to have their loved one interred within proximity to the survivors family plots or permanent residence. Other reasons for disinterments may be for forensic investigations.
Demolition & Restoration
Demolition and reconstruction
DEMOLITION & RESTORATION
The two phases of restoring a grave
Demolition of old, debilitated, cracked, or sinking graves is the first of two phases when graves need to be restored. This may sometimes involve removing a casket and placing it in a holding vault until the process is complete.
Restoring or reconstruction is the second phase which involves replicating the original construction layout or and entirely new vault/grave/tomb layout.
FOUNDED ON
Family-Founded
OUR PROMISE
Top Quality, Reasonably Priced
LOCATIONS
Marksville & Alexandria