Olinger Mortuaries and Cemeteries

Weed and thistles everywhere and theft of vases off the graves is so depressing and not keeping it up is neglectful of the owners

I recently lost my baby and had the ashes made through here. I’m so sad that such a little thing could be so much money and take so very long. However, I am grateful to the women who talk with mom’s like me while signing the paperwork and such. I do wish that this company would provide an urn, especially when they ashes are nomore than a cigarette’s worth and the ID tag for the cremation weighs more than the ashes themselves and we ended up paying $ 60 for an Urn that is literally holding something so extremely tiny. I wish they had told me what the expectation is and would have been. However, it is it a time in a persons’s life where they’re the most vulnerable and thinking clearly and asking questions about what they’re really getting for that much money is never brought up. Burt, thank you from one mom to another and thank you for helping me through this hard time, however, with the next moms please let them know what to expect in regards to the ashes.

i’ve been here four or five times for the funerals of my grandparents. i was there just last month and it’s a pretty decent mortuary/​cemetery. the staff is really helpful and i think every thursday or friday they mow the lawn and clear out all the flowers.
some pros:
really helpful staff. very accommodating. my mom and i realized that my grandpa’s headstone/​bench didn’t have a vase for flowers and so when we walked over to the office they provided us with a plastic temporary one.
the people who helped out with the actual funeral were really nice too, respectful, etc. etc.
some cons:
they don’t have a lot of outdoor water faucets to fill your vase. and the trashcans are rather widely spaced apart. so you have to walk to one end to get your water and to another to throw away your trash. but it’s not too big.
it’s right off of hampden, so there’s a bit of traffic noise.
i guess there’s a policy that people can’t hang around and watch the dirt getting put onto the coffin. just a weird hang up, but they don’t allow it. the majority of my deceased relatives are at the forest lawn in hollywood hills (california), and they have this bulldozer-​thing full of dirt ready, and after everybody throws in their solemn handful of dirt, some signal is given, and it comes over and dumps dirt into the grave, tamps it tight, and then workers unroll grass over it right there. not so here. they seemed keen to get us out, which made me a little leery, but it was suggested that perhaps it was to allow the ground to settle. sure.