Choosing cremation.
A professional cremation provides your loved one with a dignified service and begins the healing process.
We Provide
- Transportation for your loved one from a residence, medical facility or hospice
- Proper documents including filing of death certificates
- Licensed and experienced funeral directors
- Online tribute/obituary listings
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For unexpected deaths please call 911.
Why Choose Us?
Families have been trusting us with their loved ones because of our superior service and professionalism. Our local, licensed funeral directors carefully plan each and every service.
Immediate Answers
Licensed funeral directors and experienced staff to provide guidance along every step of the way.
Safe Transportation
Our professional staff will pick up your loved one at your residence, hospital, or hospice care and transport them with care.
Peace of Mind
A long history of positive testimonials and reviews from excellent services and satisfied families.
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Cremation Offers Many Options
Cremation services, like burial services, look different from one family to the next, but always provide a meaningful way to honor a deceased loved one. We work with families to ensure cremation services that are in line with their beliefs, values, and wishes. We also provide family members with different options for preserving and honoring the cremated remains of their loved one—including urns, Columbariums, cremation grave markers, and more. Options are also available to place cremated remains alongside cherished mementos—such as photographs—or even within cremation benches or rocks.
Whatever kind of service you choose, we want to ensure that it fulfills all the wishes of your family and your deceased loved one. Please contact us to discuss these options further.
What is Cremation?
During the cremation process, intense heat reduces human remains to their original elements. Our trained staff will bring your loved one to the crematory in a cremation container. Following cremation, we will receive the cremated remains and place them into an urn that has been selected by the family. There are several options a family has in the final disposition of the remains at this point, including:
- Ceremonial Scattering – Gulf or other place of importance
- Home Memorialization
- Inurnment – Burial or Niche
Final Memorialization
During the cremation process, intense heat reduces human remains to their original elements. Our trained staff will bring your loved one to the crematory in a cremation container. Following cremation, we will receive the cremated remains and place them into an urn that has been selected by the family. There are several options a family has in the final disposition of the remains at this point, including:
- Ceremonial Scattering – Gulf or other place of importance
- Home Memorialization
- Inurnment – Burial or Niche
Memorial Products
Today’s cremation urns have been designed to meet the needs of unique and personal ceremonies and memorialization. The choices consist of:
- Biodegradable Urns for scattering.
- Cast Acrylic Statuary Art Urns designed to be an artistic form that is uplifting and a comforting tribute.
- Memento Chests provide the perfect place to store photos heirlooms and other cherished items.
- Hardwood Urns have the natural warmth and beauty of fine woods.
- Marble Urns hand-crafted from natural marble with distinctive graining patterns.
- Sheet Bronze Urns can be personalized with engravings and appliques, reflecting the unique personality of the individual.
- Small Keepsake Urns and Jewelry, to hold a personal remembrance.
- Art Glass hand blown artistic personal keepsakes
- Thumbies Personalized jewelry and pendants with unique fingerprint technology.
Make Lasting Memories.
Our History
Our firm was founded by Lew Franklin Sr. and Saxon Downs in 1946. In 1972, Lew Franklin, Jr. and LeRoy J. Hart partnered to provide services to the surrounding Modesto Community. In the late 70s, Franklin & Downs acquired the McHenry and Ceres locations. The Colonial Chapel was built in 1887 by George Perly Stone, a local banker; the home was his primary residence for over 30 years. Learn our history.
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