Why Choose Us
At Heidrick-Zaumetzer Funeral Home, we take great pride in caring for our families, and will work tirelessly to provide you with a beautiful, lasting tribute to your loved one. In addition to the services we offer, you will receive an online memorial that you can share with family and friends. While honoring your loved one is our top priority, we also want to help you through this difficult time. We have a wide range of resources to support you not only today, but in the weeks and months to come.
A sampling of our offerings is listed below. Please call us at 518-647-8177 so we can help you through this process.
Online Memorial
We can create a customized, online memorial for you to share with family and friends. The memorial includes the obituary and any photographs you wish to provide. It will serve as a place for visitors to post condolences, share memories, upload photos, and light candles in honor of your loved one.
Tribute Video
We can produce a personal tribute video that can be played at the service and online. Simply provide us with the photographs you want to include and we will transform them into a video celebration of your treasured memories. DVDs or digital files of the video are also available.
Funeral Fund Donations
We realize the expense of a funeral can be a burden. We provide the option for friends and family to make monetary donations to help cover funeral costs. These gifts can be made easily and securely online through our website, and are paid directly to the funeral home on behalf of the donor.
Ordering Flowers
We make it easy for friends and family to send flowers to your home or service to honor your loved one. We have partnered with local florists to offer the convenience of ordering directly from the obituary page of our website. You can also use this feature to select the flowers you would like at the service. This is a secure way to choose beautiful arrangements from the privacy and comfort of your home.
Sharing Service Details
We reduce the stress of contacting those who need the details of the service for your loved one. We post the dates and times of the service as part of the online memorial on our website. You can then either share the memorial on your Facebook or Twitter page or copy the details from the site into an email or text. Both options give you the peace of mind that you have provided the necessary information to those who need it.
Daily Grief Steps Emails
We offer one year of free daily grief support emails to the families we serve. It is important to us that we continue to comfort our families through the difficult days that the first year of grieving can bring.
We happily offer to assist you with:
- Designing the most fitting memorial or funeral service to honor their memory and pay tribute to their life achievements and experiences.
- Selecting the most appropriate products, including a casket, burial vault, cremation urn, cemetery or mausoleum, to fit your budget and suit your needs and desires.
- Writing a fitting obituary to honor your loved one’s life experiences and social connections.
- The publication of the obituary in the newspapers of your choice.
- Creating an Online Memorial: a beautiful, permanent memorial, where you and your friends can build a legacy of memories by archiving treasured photos and memories.
- Your planned services, including a viewing, visitation, funeral or memorial service.
- Making all arrangements with regard to the services whether they are held at your place of worship, our funeral home, cemetery, or alternate gathering place.
- Providing you with beautiful funeral print materials, including memorial folders, prayer cards and bookmarks. We also offer personalized note cards for you to acknowledge the emotional support you received from friends, co-workers and community members. We prepare and create all of these print materials in house to ensure they are all prepared on time and personalized to your needs.
- Providing an elegant hearse and funeral cars, as well as arrange for escorts.
- Helping in the selection and on-site arrangement of floral tributes.
- Providing access to grief education and support materials, and referrals to counseling services.
- Preparing all paperwork, including vital record statistics, permits, filing and obtaining death certificates, and assistance with life insurance, veteran’s benefits and Social Security claims.
We hope you will turn to us for compassionate care and impeccable service. Our pledge is to honor your loved one and family with dignity, respect and personal attention to every detail.
