Colonial Chapel Funeral Home & Crematory provides Palos Heights, IL with compassionate cremation services and conscientious attention to every detail. We guarantee the families we assist the most caring and dignified service performed in a manner that will avoid any delays in the cremation of their loved one. Your deceased will be tended to by fully trained and certified crematory operators who are committed to ongoing education. We will safeguard your loved one’s cremated remains and give them to you as soon as they are ready for pick up.
Grief experts all conclude that having a service or ceremony in honor of your departed is essential to the healing process. You may feel overwhelmed and confused as to how best to do this. Therefore, we offer several tribute options to accompany the cremation of your loved one and we help guide you as you make your selections. You may choose to have traditional cremation services with an open or closed casket visitation and subsequent funeral. You may also decide to hold a memorial gathering to commemorate your deceased after he or she has been cremated. Another choice is to arrange for a highly personalized celebration-of-life after your loved one has been cremated that highlights his or her unique life path and accomplishments.
We also feature a selection room containing a full range of quality funeral, burial and cremation merchandise. We have an extensive collection of caskets available in bronze, copper, stainless steel, steel and various woods. We also have numerous burial vaults to choose from. Most modern cemeteries require their use to preserve the beauty of the burial grounds by preventing the ground from settling. They also protect the casket from the weight of the earth and the maintenance equipment that will pass over the gravesite. In addition to these burial products, we have many different cremation vessels or urns crafted from wood, marble, ceramic, bronze and other new materials.