Behm Family Funeral Home offer distinctive, personal, and affordable services designed to help you honor your loved one in a way that is unique to them and meaningful to you.
The number of people choosing cremation has increased significantly in the past few years, yet cremation carries a long tradition and remains largely unchanged. What is done before or after the cremation is up to the survivors, or up to you.
Contrary to what some people believe, Cremation does not limit choices, but, in fact, increases one’s options. It is a process which is performed in a respectful and dignified manner and can be memorialized in many ways.
Choosing cremation neither eliminates nor does it require a funeral service. Traditional or contemporary services are often planned before or after the cremation process. A funeral service followed by cremation may be similar to a funeral service followed by ground burial. They can be elaborate or simple and traditional or nontraditional.
Here are some common examples of cremation services chosen most often by the family’s we serve. These services can be held over multiple days or can be accomplished on the same day if desired. We can tailor any of these options to meet your individual needs.
Cremation allows families many choices for memorializing a loved one. Some families choose to keep the cremated remains with them at home, inter them in a cemetery, or to scatter the remains over land or water.
Our staff can assist you with the following memorialization options, among others, for cremated remains:
Our expert staff is here to help you plan a truly memorable Celebration of Life for your loved one. Whether you are planning a burial or cremation, we encourage you to consider our Tribute Services. These offerings will forever personalize your service.
Remember your loved one with a memory table display. You can include significant items from your loved one’s life, including a bicycle, golf clubs, gardening tools, hunting and fishing gear, a musical instrument, a motorcycle helmet or jacket, knitting or sewing equipment…the possibilities are endless. Display special photos, certificates, achievement awards and other significant items in a customized memory collage.
There is no better way to remember your loved one than with a special personalized DVD tribute. Our Life Tribute video program incorporates your family’s pictures with music into a presentation that can be played at the visitation, during the service or at the conclusion of the service. You can post the video online for family and friends around the world to see and purchase additional copies to share with generations to come.
Do you have family members in another state or overseas who are unable to attend the service? No one should have to miss their loved one’s funeral. We can broadcast the funeral service live over the Internet and provide high quality recordings.
You are not limited to traditional funeral music during your loved one’s service. Customize the visitation or service with your loved one’s favorite tunes. We are happy to help your family compile special music selections to play during the services from a CD or iPod. We also have an organ available in our chapel for traditional music.
A Celebrant is a professional who is trained and certified to meet the needs of families during their time of loss. This expert can help your family create a personalized tribute service to celebrate your loved one’s unique life. You may choose to use a Celebrant alone or in conjunction with clergy. If you want an uplifting service that pays tribute to your loved one’s life or if you are not affiliated with a church, a Celebrant service may be the perfect option.
The bagpipe provides a solemn, powerful song, making it the ideal instrument for funerals and memorials. For hundreds of years, people far and wide have bid farewell to their dearly departed with the music of the pipes. We can help you commemorate a loved one with this noble music tribute.
Friends, relatives, church members or business associates may serve as pallbearers. If the family would prefer, we can provide some or all pallbearers for your loved one’s service. Each pallbearer will wear a special Lily or flag pin, making them easily identifiable.
We can help you honor your military member with a flag ceremony, color guard, trumpeter or even a final gun salute. We work with all branches of the military and can make all the proper arrangements easily and efficiently.
We can distribute pouches of wildflower seeds during or after the service. Because wildflowers are perpetual, they can provide an ongoing tribute to your loved one’s life. Guests can choose to plant their wildflower seeds in a garden, planter, meadow or any other special location.
We can coordinate and arrange an off-site reception at any venue of your choosing. Whether it be a restaurant, banquet center or golf club, this gives your family and friends an opportunity to gather and reminisce after your loved one’s service.
Even with cremation, a green burial can take place in nearly any cemetery that allows eco-friendly methods of burial. Our firm offers several options that can help you ensure that your final resting place is both environmentally-friendly and honorable. Typically, cemeteries offering green burials follow these guidelines:
What a professional organization. From the very first consultation, past the phone call at the time of need all the way thru the final goodbye this group of professionals gave us their very best. Our funeral director was Stephanie She was caring, compassionate and certainly made our grief more bearable. During the initial visit with our lost loved one, Stephanie overheard a conversation about how much our parents loved Polka Music. When it was time to bring our elderly mother to say her final goodbye to our Dad, Polka Music was playing. Although grief stricken, our Mom was taping her toes an nodding her head to the beat of the Polka Music. What a great personal touch.
My grandmother passed unexpectedly in 2010, and we were out of town. Behm handled all our frantic phone calls upon being notified of her death. They told us originally it was not a good idea to see her (she passed of a heart attack, and fell face first), but upon hearing how important it was for my mother to see her, they worked tirelessly upon our arrival & called us to let us know we could come see her. They did a beautiful job on her and gave us a little bit of closure we needed.
Throughout the process of handling the cremation, burial of ashes, they were so incredibly patient & wonderful. You could not ask for a better staff than this one. Now that I'm working to get her headstone taken care of, they again have been amazing!
The loss of our Grandmother was a very hard one for our family, but Behm's truly made this process as easy as possible so we could focus on remembering our Granny & memorializing her properly. Thanks Behm's!
We had a great experience with Behm when my grandmother passed. They organized everything, made the entire process as smooth and seamless as it could be, and were incredibly thoughtful and professional.
Thank you for everything!
During a very difficult and unexpected loss myself and my family had an Excellent experience with everyone at Behm. We are very grateful to them for all the help with last minute arrangements . The prices were very good and our loved one was well taken care of and presented to all of us with caring and warmth for our goodbyes . Can’t say enough about Everyone in the Behm funeral home Family .
Everyone here at Behm made me feel blessed to have someone looking to help me and not push for more than I needed. With pre-planning and locked in pricing before my mother passed helped immensely. Thank you so much, I didn't have a clue about what i was doing and everything went so smooth and stress free it was amazing. Recommend everything about Behm Family Funeral Home.
This was my first time actually making the arrangements for a funeral. John was very calming and comforting helping us plan the service. I can’t recommend them enough. I definitely give them 6 stars out of 5. Every staff member treated us like family. They laughed with us and cried with us.
The Behm family was so friendly, compassionate and helpful at our time of loss. They walked us through everything like a friend. There aren’t enough words of gratitude to give them for all they did for us. Thank you! The McCracken Family
Behm Family Funeral Homes get six stars out of five. My dad, a 98 year-old WWII veteran, passed away on the 16th of January, 2023. The incredible owners and staff went overboard in helping take care of services and the burial that took place on the 20th of January. They took care of every detail and more. When they initially contacted Painesville City to coordinate burial in Riverside there was a problem with some paperwork from decades ago. They handled this with professionalism and maintained contact with the city and our family until the problem was solved. They also helped with other details related to the death certificate and notification of authorities, including the Social Security Administration. They helped arrange for military honors with the local team from the American Legion and VFW. It went extraordinarily smoothly and professionally, including the teamwork with the active duty Navy team that came in from out of town. The graveside service that was conducted in cold and snowy weather went smoothly.
Trevor Behm spearheaded the effort and I cannot say enough about his professionalism. Outstanding service. Thank you to the entire team.
Trevor Behm and all the family at Behm' Funeral Home were caring, professional and genuine. They helped our family throughout the process and took alot of our plate so we could focus on family.
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26 River Street
Madison, OH 44057
(440) 428-4401
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175 South Broadway
Geneva, OH 44041
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