Whether you are interested in traditional services, cremation, or alternative options, our staff is here to help you understand what is available and will assist in determining what’s right for you. Lohman Funeral Homes offers a wide variety of services and options to help meet all sorts of individual needs.

At Lohman Funeral Homes, we pride ourselves on being able to meet the needs of all the families we serve. If you would like assistance in planning a service, or if you would just like to discuss some ideas, please don’t hesitate to contact us at (386) 673-1100.

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Funerals are an important part of the healing process. They are a special time for friends and relatives to gather, pay tribute and share memories after someone they love has passed on. Above all, funerals:
• Help us accept that the death of someone you love has occurred
• Allow us to celebrate a life and share in their remembrance
• Give us the opportunity to receive the mutual support for family and
  friends
• Give us one more time to say goodbye
• Help us through the transition from life before death to memories

Celebration of Life Options with Cremation

The Funeral ~ A Celebration of Life

The funeral ritual can be described in several facets. Each facet of a funeral has become a part of our lives over time because it gives each person touched by the loss a time to grieve, reflect and begin to heal.

The Visitation

As the passing of a loved one is observed, a visitation or viewing provides an opportunity for friends and family to pay their respects.
• Family and friends can see their loved one for the last time, this helps us accept the reality that the death as occurred
• Visitation can include a viewing with an open casket or the casket may be closed, it is a personal and cultural choice

The Funeral Ceremony

The funeral service provides an opportunity for friends and family to gather in mutual support and sorrow to observe the passing of someone who has been important in their lives. It may include any of these elements depending on personal choice, religious preference, or culture.
• Often include Music, Scripture, and Spiritual message, again based on
  personal choice
• Prescribed in an exact way in some religions; your funeral director and
   or your clergy can provide you with more details based on your
   personal religious beliefs
• Personal reflections and eulogies from one or several people on the life
   of their loved can add a special connection for everyone who attends,
   and pays special tribute to the life of your loved one
• Funeral can take place either in a church or our funeral home chapel,
  again depending on personal and religious preference
• Typically the funeral is followed by a processional to the cemetery, the
   final resting place. It is sometimes escorted by a Police motorcade and
   is a symbolic statement of the community honoring the death of your
   loved one.

The Committal Service

• This is the final portion of the funeral that takes place at the graveside or mausoleum where the final resting place of the deceased will be. It commemorates and/or blesses the final resting place.
• Creates a special significance for family and friends so that they may return to the committal site later and feel a sense of peace and comfort
Graveside Service
• Graveside services are those held only at the place of disposition, usually the cemetery, rather than in a place of worship or our funeral home or other venue.
• Visitation time can still be a part of this service at the cemetery grounds and provides time for sharing and remembrances
• Following the funeral ceremony, the deceased is placed in their final resting place.

REMEMBER…..often it is the story telling during the visitation, the funeral and after the service at the gathering that give people that sense of closeness and comfort. We encourage you to consider this as an important aspect of the planning of your loved one’s tribute.

Creating a Memorial for
 Eternity

Whether you prefer burial, entombment or cremation, you should plan to memorialize your loved one. Memorials are for the living. They provide a permanent place for those left behind to connect emotionally and spiritually with their loss. They provide an opportunity to honor and pay tribute to a person and make a statement about the impact the person has had on his or her family, community or even the world. Your loved one can be honored in many ways. Memorials within our cemetery can widely vary, and your choice is personal preference.

The selection of a personalized, permanent memorial allows those who have lost a loved one to express their feelings in an intimate and loving way. Memorials today can be intricate and highly detailed; they can include carving of scenery and personal portraits from actual photographs of your loved ones reproduced in both bronze and granite.

For ground burial of caskets and/or urns, monuments are the most commonly seen memorials and can come in many different shapes and sizes. Slants/bevels/flush markers are usually smaller than monuments and come in either single or companion sizes. Bronze memorials are usually flush to the ground and come in a variety of styles and sizes.

For memorialization of cremated remains, the memorial may be engraved on a bench, it may be a plaque resting within an honor rock or displayed near a scattering pond or rock garden. It might also be a bronze plate affixed to the front of a columbarium, or etched within a unique cremation memorial.

Traditional In-Ground Burial

Daytona Memorial park and Edgewater New Smyrna Cemetery have over ten beautifully developed gardens so that families may choose their own personal preference in terms of location and aesthetics. Many of these host beautiful features including Praying Hands and Veteran Features.

Mausoleum Entombment

Entombment is the interment of human remains in a tomb or mausoleum. Either a casket or a cremation urn can be placed in a crypt or niche, which is a sealed individual compartment within a mausoleum or columbarium. Mausoleum burial is an affordable and practical alternative for people who have distaste for being buried underground. The casket is placed in a clean and dry crypt within the mausoleum, which protects the remains from water and the elements of the earth. Mausoleum entombment is comparable in cost to ground burial because it includes three elements within one; the space, the vault (none is required with entombment in a mausoleum) and the memorialization.

Mausoleum entombment is one of the oldest forms of burial known to man dating back to 353 BC. Queen Artmisia erected a large temple-like structure for the final resting-place of her late husband, King Mausolus. The word mausoleum is derived from his name. Today, King Mausolus’ mausoleum is regarded as the fifth of the Seven Wonders of the World.

Community Mausoleums

Community mausoleums provide above ground entombment for a number of people in one large building. Community mausoleums are more affordable than private mausoleums because you are sharing the cost with several others.

We offer two types of mausoleum crypts: tandem and side-by-side. Depending on the location and style of the crypt, prices vary with the upper level crypts being less expensive than those at eye-level. Lower level crypts are referred to as the Prayer-level and the different levels above in order are referred to as Heart-level, Eye-level and Palm-levels.

Eternal Light Mausoleum-Daytona Memorial Park
The Eternal Light Mausoleum is the first of its type in our area. The building is solid polished granite and has 432 full body crypts. Completed in 2004, the building is 50% sold. Once only the rich could afford above ground entombment, here we offer this opportunity for everyone. In fact, due the overwhelming popularity of our Eternal Light Mausoleum, Daytona Memorial Park will soon be announcing the expansion of its next phase.

Edgewater-New Smyrna Cemetery also offers mausoleum entombment and is pleased to announce that we are currently selling pre construction, advanced purchase of the new mausoleum addition which will be located in the courtyard of the current mausoleum garden.

Private Estates

Private Estates memorialize and celebrate the legacies of people and families in the most dignified and esthetic manner. Designed by some of North America's most experienced and innovative mausoleum designers, Private Estates are artfully designed and created and reflect both your family name and your personality.

Private Estates encompasses both casketed entombment and cremation. Below-ground burial can be arranged within estates to each side of the private estate, uniting family members in any fashion desired. Private Estate’s structures and buildings when completed include installation, landscaping and finishing touches such as walkways, benches, monogramming and engraving. Once installed, a Private Estates mausoleum can immediately be accessed and appreciated with a minimum of maintenance.

Private Mausoleum Estates are created with granite and bronze. Granite is a popular choice for any stone memorial because of its beauty, durability, strength and carving characteristics. People want choice, meaningful colors, service and quality when selecting a memorial for a loved one. Bronze has a distinctive beauty as a precious metal. Bronze is a medium used by artists to create masterpieces of sculpture and design. It is also a material that can be personalized in unique and beautiful ways. The combination of bronze and granite combines beauty and durability to create a memorial that will last.

Daytona Memorial Park-Private Estate Garden at Swan Lake
We are very pleased that the community has embraced Daytona Memorial Park and are particularly gratified that the development of the beautiful Private Estate area completely surrounding Swan Lake has been so well accepted.

There are 10 remaining landscaped lots that will be the home of custom designed Private Family Estates, as six (6) have already been developed. We have a beautiful estate area for you to see, that we feel you may really appreciate.

A custom designed granite mausoleum commemorates and pays tribute to an individual or a family and makes a statement about the impact an individual has had on his or her family and community.
Family Estates are more private and distinctive. They boast beautiful architectural features, mosaics of pleasing granite colors, personalized decorative motifs, exquisite murals, stunning stained glass windows, elaborately designed bronze doors and landscaping with granite pathways and benches.

Cremation Garden & Scattering ~ Benches, Honor Rocks, & Cremation Memorials

Our cremation garden offers a park like setting amidst a peaceful fountain and pond. It includes a variety of choices to memorize your loved one including cremation benches, honor rocks, scattering and rock gardens, columbarium niches and a variety of unique granite cremation memorials.

The scattering of cremated remains in an undesignated or public place poses a potential difficulty for survivors because of the uncertainty and no guarantee that the area will be accessible in years to come. By choosing to have your remains interred or scattered at a cemetery, your loved ones are ensured that they will have a place to go to remember you.

Glass Front Mausoleum Niches

A private, climate-controlled setting provides a place to reflect and remember. Glass front niches include room to display personal keepsakes and photographs, treasured mementos capturing precious memories.

Columbariums

Daytona Memorial Park and Edgewater New Smyrna Cemetery offer a variety of columbarium niches including our unique “Praying Hands” Columbarium. Our columbariums include small compartments or niches that are designed to hold urns of cremated remains.