Put Your Trust In Lunning Chapel

 

Lunning Chapel has a long history of leading funeral service in Des Moines County.  Families are first and

 foremost with emphasis on personalization, compassion, and detailed attention.  Our expansion in 2002

has enabled us to ever better serve our families in a very modern, home like, handicap accessible

setting.  No request is too great; everything we do is for the benefit of each family we serve.

Borrowing, “We Try Harder”

 
PRE-PLANNING
 

v     A licensed Funeral Director will meet with your family in your home or in Lunning Chapel

v     We will explain your options fully, answer questions, record wishes and file the information

v     Advanced planning is at no cost, obligation or pressure

v     Assist with Medicaid and Title XIX eligibility options and provide resource materials on nursing homes

v     We will accept existing insurance policies, or arrangements may be transferred from another funeral home

 

TIME OF NEED
 

v     Services, visitation, or family viewing prior to cremation, body donation, or direct burial

v     Two large chapels for services and visitation

v     Large display of caskets, cremation caskets, urns, personalized corners and casket panels on site

v     For the families’ benefit and the deceased’s dignity, we do not use rental caskets

v     Full color personalized memorial folders available in different sizes

v     Memory boards and tables to display pictures and mementoes

v     Remembrance Picture Tribute with family provided pictures can be played during visitation and funeral service

v     A DVD copy of the Remembrance Picture Tribute given to the family to keep

v     Remembrance Picture Tribute available one this website for anyone to view

v     Ability to show a family supplied DVD or VCR tape on our chapel screen

v     DVD video and audio recording of the Funeral, Rosary or Christian Wake Services and given to the family

v     The video recording of the Funeral, Rosary or Christian Wake Services available on this website for anyone to view

v     Public address system and CD player available for graveside and committal services

v     Pictures taken of individual flowers, memory boards and mementos for your family

v     Two large spacious chapels and visitation areas with closed circuit TV for large funerals seating over 350

v     Infant cry room and private area with closed circuit TV from our main chapel

v     Weather protected drive through and almost unlimited off street parking

v     Survivor memorial wreath pins

v     Personal gift items, which include cremation and thumb print jewelry, garden stones, flag cases, books, etc.

v     Notify Social Security, assist with insurance claims and file for Veteran’s benefits or other family needs

v     Notaries on staff for the communities convenience at no cost

v     Extensive library with books on terminal illness, life transitions, grief, etc.

v     Children’s funeral process education program with sharing bears and coloring book

 

AFTERCARE
 

v     Full time After Care Facilitator, Community Education Director and Speaker (Debbie and Whitney)

v     Individual family follow-ups and contact for up to eighteen months

v     Sponsor and conduct a nine week grief course “Grief, The Journey to Healing” three times a year

v     Large grief library with many books, audiotapes, and video resources available for check out

v     Sponsor Compassionate Friends, a support group for parents that meets monthly

v     Regular grief newsletters for compassionate friends and the families we have served

v     Grief support area with off street parking and private entrance

v     Annual Christmas Memorial Service each December with a personalized ornament to take home

v     Conduct a Community Easter Memorial Service and Fall Holiday Grief Workshop each year

v     Provide community speakers on the subjects of grief and/or death and funeral home tours