Cremation Services in Lakewood, Colorado
Stork-Morley Funerals and Cremations provides affordable cremation services in Lakewood, CO, and across the Denver metro area. You can choose a simple direct cremation or cremation with a memorial service held at our location or a venue of your choice. As a family-owned funeral home, we explain every option and price clearly and never pressure you to spend more than you want. Cremation takes place with careful identification and tracking safeguards, and your loved one stays in our care. Call (303) 237-5350 any time, or request our General Price List to compare costs before you decide.
Cremation for Lakewood and the Denver Metro Area
We provide cremation services to families in Lakewood, Denver, Wheat Ridge, Edgewater, Golden, Arvada, Littleton, Englewood, Westminster, and Morrison. Wherever you are in the west metro, we make the process simple and respectful.
What Is the Difference Between Direct Cremation and Cremation With a Service?
Direct cremation is the simplest and most affordable option. Your loved one is cremated soon after coming into our care, with no formal viewing or ceremony beforehand. Cremation with a memorial service adds a gathering, which can be held later and at a place that matters to your family. You can choose either one, and we will guide you through what each includes.
Why Families Choose Stork-Morley for Cremation
On-Site Cremation With Safeguards
A Service at Any Venue You Choose
Honest, Family-Owned Pricing
Help With Every Detail
Compare Your Cremation Options
The table below compares the three most common cremation choices so you can see which fits your family and budget.
| Option | Service or viewing | Timing | Relative cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct cremation | No formal service beforehand; gather later if you wish | Soonest | Lowest |
| Cremation with memorial service | Memorial at our location or your venue | Flexible, often a later date | Moderate |
| Traditional funeral, then cremation | Viewing and funeral service before cremation | Within days | Highest of the three |
Plan your Tribute
Choosing cremation neither elimanates 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 a ground burial. They can elaborate or simple, and traditional or non-traditional.
Here are some common examples of cremation services chosen most often by the families 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 option to meet your individual needs.
- Traditional viewing or visitation hours (with body present), followed by cremation
- Cremation followed by memorial visitation (without body) at the funeral home
- Cremation followed by a memorial service or life celebration at your church, our chapel or reception center
- Private family goodbye, followed by cremation
- Cremation followed by burial
- Simple cremation with no ceremony
How Much Does Cremation Cost in Lakewood?
What to Do With the Cremated Remains
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:
Outdoor Niches: The cremated remains may be safely held in an above ground columbarium niches. They are typically located within a mausoleum or chapel.
Urn Garden: Many cemeteries have areas designated specifically for the interment of cremated remains.
Family Plot: If you already own a burial plot or have space in a family plot, you may choose to inter the urn there.
Scattering: Your loved one’s remains may be scattered in a meaningful location that can be appreciated by future generations. There are also certain services which offer scattering among the sea or the stars.
Traditional Burial: In ground burial on a family plot or in special cremation areas of the cemetery.
Personalized Memorialization: Inscribe your family member’s name and a special saying on a tree plaque, park bench or other special memorial. We also have custom, unique urns and keepsakes, perfect for displaying inside your home.
Trusted Care You Can Count On
- Family-owned and serving Denver-area families since 1994.
- On-site crematory: we own and operate our own crematory, cremate only one person at a time, never use the chamber for pets, and track every step with a stainless steel identification disc.
- Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; our staff is here for immediate need any time you call.
- Compliant with the FTC Funeral Rule; General Price List available on request.
- Serving Lakewood, Denver, and the surrounding west metro communities.
Tribute Services
Memory Tables and Memory Collages
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.
Personalized Music
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.
Certified Celebrant
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.
Bagpiper
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.
Pallbearers
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.
Military Honors
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.
Reception
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.